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“Cowboy Bob” – a giant fiberglass statue of a cowboy – now stands over Route 66 near 11th and Peoria, as a brand ambassador for Buck’s Vintage, a souvenir store. The giant joins Buck Atom, and Stella, by “Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curios<\/a>,” and Mack by the restored Meadow Gold sign.<\/p>\n

The collection is a creation of Mary Beth Babcock, who owns three stores in the area, all tied to Route 66 tourism.<\/p>\n

“It is neat when someone says, ‘Wow, look what’s happened, look at the change, that’s exciting,'” said Babcock, surrounded by signs of renewal with other businesses opening around her.<\/p>\n

She said her own childhood memories of a “Muffler Man” in Enid helped inspire her to have new versions created to stand outside her stores. The next, and last one for the area, she says, is a “Rosie the Riveter” by Josey Records<\/a> on 11th Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Cowboy Bob” – a giant fiberglass statue of a cowboy – now stands over Route 66 near 11th…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,87230,26790,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-147848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-mary-beth-babcock","13":"tag-peoria","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115032899231921127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}