Comments on: PHOTOS: Ken Fox’s Great Statues of Auburn

By: RunnerGirl

RunnerGirl — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:12:57 +0000

DMZ, dorky girls like me wouldn’t know where the wicked hangout spot was back in the day, but I think I’m a stronger person because of it.

“I’m good enough; I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!”

By: someone else

someone else — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:09:14 +0000

Turty Squip is an angry bitter person… it must suck to be you.

By: TheChadd

TheChadd — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:21:22 +0000

Wow, someone’s bitter…

By: Turty Squip

Turty Squip — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:01:45 +0000

Maybe they can hire this guy to replace Atlas, destroyed by a snoozing motorist. A Chinese coolie seems a little odd, without recogizing the contributions of Black slaves, Mexican fieldworkers, Phillipino garment-sewers, etc. Whaddya’ think- a statue of all of the oppressed minorities, holding the white man aloft, who is swiming in his hot-tub, splashing the oppressed while swigging wine, eating lettuce, and wearing fine cotten linens? Ah- I see it now… Muscles trembling in the hot sun, trying to hold up that heavy hot tub with whitey splashing around, enjoying the fruits of others’ labors.

By: katster

katster — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:32:27 +0000

There’s a Chinese coolie by the train station too. I love those things.

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:59:09 +0000

They appear to be aiming to kill the very sun that gives us life.

RG were they a wicked hangout spot back in the day?

By: TheChadd

TheChadd — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:31:40 +0000

What are they looking at? Are they surface-to-air statues?

By: Stickie

Stickie — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:08:35 +0000

The gold miner’s name is Claude Chana. He is not only famous for striking it rich near Auburn, but for being a pioneer horticulturalist. He planted peaches and almonds in the 1840’s on the shores of the Bear River.

By: RunnerGirl

RunnerGirl — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:05:11 +0000

Ha! I grew up only about a mile away from those statues, and they’re always the landmark I use when describing where we lived. “Off of Auburn Ravine Road and Mikkelsen — you know, where the naked statues are.” A lady from our church had been a patient of Dr. Fox’s, and he asked her to model for one of the statues back in the ’70s (she didn’t.)