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The Chicken Boy Statue
About UK Route 66 Association
The story of Chicken Boy started when the original owner of the Chicken Boy Fried Chicken restaurant, a true Los Angeles visionary if there ever was one, bought a customized Muffler Man statue from the International Fiberglass Company in Venice, California. These statues, also known as Big Guys and Paul Bunyans, were constructed of fiberglass and polyester resin on steel frames. Their arms were positioned to hold mufflers, rocket ships, or — in the case of the Bunyans — axes. (Once you’ve seen one Muffler Man, you’ll start to notice them all over Los Angeles and along the Historic Route 66.)
But the statue that was soon to be Chicken Boy had his arms modified to hold a large bucket. Then the restaurant owner hired an artist to create Chicken Boy’s stylized head, complete with googly eyes, comb, wattles, and beak.
It’s been said he’s “too big to live, too weird to die” (which doesn’t really make any sense), and the tale of his journey through time and storage spaces of Los Angeles is one of love, perseverance, and triumph
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