There are two bonuses about this suburban hippo: 1. It is located on the main road in Oldwick, NJ, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldwick,_New_Jersey), a sleepy village consisting mainly of Victorian, Federal, New England and Georgian style homes protected by historic preservation legislation. The township to which it belongs is famous for horse farms and large estates. Not at all the kind of place one would expect to find a huge hippo as a lawn ornament.
2. The hippo was brought here as a romantic gesture. A New Jersey engineer fell in love with a young veterinarian from Missouri. He knew that she had a fondness for a pair of bronze hippo statues near St Louis, so he had ca concrete replica cast and hauled the multi-ton beast across half the country as an inducement for her to marry him and move out east. I met him when I stopped to take this image. He was not very happy that I was doing that, but after I chatted him up for 10 minutes or so, he grudgingly allowed me to proceed (knowing, of course, that I could always photograph it from the public road). Dan On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I've never seen anything like that on a front lawn. What a hoot! > Cheers, Christine > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" > <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:21 PM > Subject: PESO: Suburban Hip > > >> Hippo. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12980418 >> >> Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are Welcome. >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
