A 20-foot-tall Muffler Man named Meadow Gold Mack was installed Wednesday at the Meadow Gold Mack’s Route 66 Outpost in Tulsa.
It is the third such Muffler Man to be installed in a short stretch of Route 66 in Tulsa. Two are at the nearby Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curios on Route 66. All are the brainchild of entrepreneur Mary Beth Babcock.
A welcome party for the new figure was scheduled for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Here are images posted on Facebook of the new Route 66 attraction:
The Tulsa World newspaper posted more images of Meadow Gold Mack’s installation.
According to News on 6 in Tulsa, the Meadow Gold Mack statue was originally erected in Illinois in the 1960s.
Tulsa People magazine reports that local developer Aaron Meek offered Babcock the use of his 20-foot lumberjack that was in his warehouse and the retail space
The store and statue are named after the nearby Meadow Gold neon sign, which originally was constructed in 1934 along Route 66, taken down, restored and re-erected down the street in 2009. The area has become the Meadow Gold District.
(Image of Meadow Gold Mack via the Meadow Gold Mack Route 66 Outpost on Facebook)