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this is going to sound really really stupid but i seriously always thought these trucks sold french fries until now
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to be fair I have never seen them doing landscaping
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An excellent user title, further elevated by powerful synergy
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i think a lot about some of my hometown mascots from chattanooga
the minor league baseball team the lookouts has looie the lookout who is like…like the lookouts logo has sort of a proto EYES emoji…and looie has a hat with those eyes on it or those are his eyes who can really say. he also has child and woman counterparts “blooie” and “loouise”
rock city has rocky the elf and i’m sure there was some elf lore involved with the place lots of weird gnome statue kind of memorabilia with it
krystal restaurants started in chattanooga and they had a ton of weird sid and marty kroft style mascots called the krystal kritters who i only got a bit of the backend of when i was a kid but i do find them very appealing.
sadly they have been replaced with a simple slider man
the local fox station also had a dog character called dodger the foxhound who apparently there is next to no record of! but i definitely remember him and rocky chillin at my school for some event day and watching them share a smoke outside and me thinking how cool it was to get this secret grownup knowledge
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The only local minor league baseball mascot that I love is the Akron Rubber Duck. Because he isn’t a yellow rubber duck. No, he is a normal duck that uses parts of tires (Akron was the tire capital of the world at some point in the past).
He is pictured here with the other Rubber Ducks mascot, who is a flying squirell from their previous incarnation as the Akron Aeros. They just kept him around because why wouldn’t you?
I actually finally managed to get a Rubber Ducks hat in my size like three weeks ago, but it is this logo:
and not the far better one from their batting practice hats:
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Not local to me, but I did also grab a Reading Luchadores hat, because how could I not with this logo:
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Not my high school, but when I was in 11th grade I went to the state Knowledge Bowl championship in Camas, WA (our team was eliminated in the first round (lmao)). Their mascot was called the “Papermakers”, and at the time it was just some doughy-looking cartoon boy called “Pulp Miller” (as far as I could tell).
I went to search up their mascot just now and it looks like they replaced the boy (I can’t find any pictures of the old art I remember), and tbqh the new one goes hard:
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Howdy Doody talk reminded me of the closest thing to a mascot my hometown had.
The Boner Bear.
This was right across the street from the store that offered video rentals and photo developing and a tanning salon and Pokémon cards AKA the only place in town that drew any (legit) business aside from the Cumberland Farms where most folks bought their groceries. It wasn’t a mascot for some business, it was just some statue on someone’s lawn, but it’s as close as we got to a local mascot, okay. Pretty sure I said that already!!
So yeah I saw this thing a lot, I was always driving past it, it always looked like that bear was popping wood, that did not read like a fuckin’ paw when you’re in an automobile going 30 MPH, it looked like a real fuckin’ chode, and it only got worse when they added that t-shirt. I believe it reads PROPERTY OF COUNTY JAIL, so I guess this is a bear that is a convict, but also patriotic (note the flag), and is possibly tough on crime? Maybe got scared straight while in the pen. Or maybe the bear’s being pressured into endorsing Bigger, I dunno, thinking about this is making me kinda depressed, I really hated that town!
Anyway I went back there in 2009 when my mother sold the house and the bear was still there but the shirt was gone and the lawn was covered in dozens of signs about how someone should really investigate that whole Vince Foster business. Then I returned with a friend 3-4 years ago and I didn’t see the bear and you no longer needed a key to use the Cumberland Farms bathroom and I’m not sure I saw a single outhouse on anyone’s lawn so I dunno, maybe that’s good news. Just checked out the village’s website and the mayor looks like the bad guy from Metal Gear Rising, bet that’s also good news, can’t imagine anything bad coming from a dude like that. Glad I don’t live in that shithole anymore!!
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People gave more detailed write-ups so I’ll see what I can do (Dave Komie is sort of a mascot but):
So for Austin I think the main mascot is Bevo, the longhorn mascot of UT Austin. They’ve gone through a lot of these dudes.
That said I live in a city just north of Austin (it gets dubbed as a suburb but c’mon, it’s a city), so we’ve got, uh:
Spike, the minor league baseball mascot for the Round Rock Express.
Sam Bass, a guy who robbed some banks or something and died ages ago. In elementary school we toured a downtown historical building and were told not to ask about Sam Bass. We did and the lady giving the tour walked outside for a while.
Alright here we go. I’m never gonna shut up about this now that I know. The house that was in the movie was on a piece of land that’s now a Kohl’s and a bunch of ailing retail stores. They filmed in Bastrop and Leander and a few other places, but fuck it, I’m claiming Leatherface for my crummy hometown.
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The town where I more or less grew up is spread over a mountain (an Appalachian, basically a big hill) and a river valley. On the mountain at a significant intersection a homeowner for decades had a very silly racist statue of an Indian squaw pointing out that became a navigation landmark. “Go down the street and turn right at The Indian.”
This is the same city that has a north side where the steel plant management generally lived and a south side (split by the river) where the steel workers generally lived, and every Christmas puts little trees on all the light poles - white lights on north side, colored lights on the south side. I leave it to you to guess the racial makeup of these groups.
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There is a good farmer’s market near where I used to live that would set up in the street. It had custom-made banners hanging on some of the street barricades telling people not to drive into or park near the barricades, and they had this angry little broccoli man on them. The mascot has no name and appears nowhere else, and with no other moods, in the farmer’s market—only as an angry mystery, a silent warrior, on the perimeter. Regretting that I do not have a full photo of the entire sign:
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did you ever figure out WHY you weren’t allowed to talk about Sam bass? was he her grandpa? did he steal from her family of bankers? ARGH MYSTERIES
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You saying that jogged my memory, and I think he was like, a great-great-uncle or something.
I mean, dude died in 1878 and this was back in 1994. Can’t imagine she knew the guy, haha.
Edit: actually looking at the Wikipedia entry on the guy, and maybe she was related to the deputy that he gunned down? Kinda makes more sense.
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Yeah on one of the biggest east/west roads near me there is the Big Chief Lewis building.
Who is Big Chief Lewis? I don’t know. It’s hard to find any information that indicates if this is a real guy or a fabrication.
The sculptor was from Pennsylvania. The horse, bison, totem pole, and (as far as I can tell) garb aren’t really reflective of any of the indigenous people local to Long Island.
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So is my town. This is not a coincidence.
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aggressively disgusting is my new user title
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also, that mascot is me
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Oh shit! My childhood minor league team made a cool thing. It’s like a lucha version of those vegetable people portraits but made out of baseballs and local landmarks. This is their less interesting mascot, Screwball:
When I was a kid they introduced a bunch of other mascots so they could have a rock band? I guess? I believe it’s a beaver, a duck, aforementioned silly baseball man, a dog, and a turtle.
Apart from that (and I guess by extension the Phillie Phanatic, the green furry Birdo), I feel like the main local mascots from my childhood were all food. There’s the tiny pretzel boy:
And the happy bologna man:
Oh and also the bemused dutchy farmer:
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