On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:47 AM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> It looks like an inflateable.. interesting that it is metal I misspoke (or mis-typed). It's actually made of concrete, not metal. http://oldwickanimalhospital.com/?page_id=93 When first I photographed the Oldwick Hippo, I parked my car and walked up to the building. It was a Sunday, and the animal hospital was closed, but a man came out of the hospital to ask what I was doing. When I explained that I had passed it by several times and was curious, and wanted to take its portrait, he invited my up onto the lawn for a better viewpoint. The story he told me was quite different than what appears on FarceBook and he hospital website. He said that he was an engineer, and had been working for a firm in the midwest. He met a young woman who was them in veterinary school, and fell in love. Just as she was graduating, he was relocated back to New Jersey. He asked her to marry him, and come back east with him. She told him she could never do that because she would have to leave the concrete hippo that she had come to love. He claimed that then he bought the hippo, at an inflated price, loaded it onto a trailer and told her that if she ever wanted to see the hippo again, she would have to marry him and move back to New Jersey. Impressed that he would do that just to please her, she said yes, and they moved to the horse country of Oldwick, NJ, where she set up her practice in a building he designed and built. Whether that is the truth or not, that is one great story. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
