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The Fiberglass Animal Capital of America

The Fiberglass Animal Capital of America

When You Need 68 Yogi Bear Statues ASAP.

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The Rice Lake, Wisconsin, fiberglass gorilla that started it all.

The last road trip I took with my father, in 2018, went west to east across the northern counties of Wisconsin. It began in Rice Lake. On the main drag of Rice Lake’s flat, treeless downtown there is a bright yellow and red pawn shop with a large, fiberglass gorilla on the roof. My dad gl…

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