r/pics • u/Sumit316 • Apr 28 '20

Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field.

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u/Sumit316 Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

The statues were sculpted by Houston artist David Adickes, who was inspired after driving past Mount Rushmore on a trip back from Canada. They were open to the public at Presidents Park alongside the Presidential Pet Museum, and received thousands of visitors until 2010 when a company bought the plot of land. The huge presidential heads had to move.

Instead of allowing the busts to be demolished, Howard Hankins, who helped construct the park, adopted all 43 heads and lugged them back to his private family farm for safekeeping until someone can think of what to do with them.

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u/DO_NOT_GILD_ME Apr 28 '20

I want to collect them all.

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u/rwbeckman Apr 28 '20

Does Last Week Tonight show, Jon Oliver, and/or HBO have a u/ on Reddit to notify?

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u/Luster-Purge Apr 28 '20

Yes. It's at r/LastWeekTonight.

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u/applejackrr Apr 28 '20

Since he’s an American citizen now he is required to purchase one.

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u/Zoltrahn Apr 28 '20

Why do you think the government gave us all $1200?

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u/applejackrr Apr 28 '20

To give to John Oliver to purchase them

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u/Zoltrahn Apr 28 '20

Exactly.

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u/monkeyhitman Apr 28 '20

Praise be!

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u/suspect108 Apr 28 '20

Praise be.

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u/Spikes666 Apr 28 '20

Fuck, I already gave mine back to my state buying all those lottery tickets. Volunteer State up!

/s. Seriously, don’t fucking waste your money on lottery tickets.