ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Many North County residents are familiar with the Joor Muffler Man, who stands about 20-feet tall at Juniper Street and East Valley Parkway. This piece of roadside kitsch has been ...

First erected in the early 1960s as an advertising gimmick, these giants are rising again thanks to preservationists, kitsch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joel Baker is a giant hunter. He travels across the country in search of towering sentinels that watch over small businesses. It's ...

The Gemini Giant, a Muffler Man in Wilmington, Illinois (photo by Studiofox/Wikimedia) The United States was invaded by hundreds of giants in the 1960s and 70s. Fiberglass Muffler Men standing between ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — The national program “Sunday Morning” on CBS broadcast a piece last Sunday on the restoration of giant “Muffler Men,” those roadside figures of advertising kitsch that appear in ...

Muffler Man filed a lawsuit Tuesday afternoon in Genesee County Circuit Court to seek a restraining order against construction on the trail and to bring all of the parties to the table, said Bob ...

A love for roadside attractions helped Greg Holmes get a big head - and he's proud of it. It takes two arms stretched wide to carry and is taller than the 5-foot-6 Holmes when he's kneeling. Holmes ...