Over the weekend, the wife and I went up to Chincoteague to visit some friends who have a house on Pony Swim Lane, right where the wild pony's are driven over from Assateague Island. Pony sales fund the local fire department, and tourism funds the small town.
This massive old roadside Viking is at the end of Pony Swim Lane and is, I have deduced, a bit of signage left over from the Viking Carpet Company which built 11 of these giants and mounted them individually on trucks (here's one in Bangor, Maine and another in Memphis, Tennessee and another which used to be in Arkansas). The giant fiberglass Vikings were moved on flatbed trucks, and were counterbalanced with water tanks so they could be quickly erected in parking lots of stores that carried the Viking carpet line. Apparently the arm that is crossed in front of the Viking once held a large shield which advertised the carpeting, while a large sword was under his left hand..
At the beach, a sign warned that any public displays from me would not be tolerated.
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