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Team That Saved Chicken Boy To be Honored With Preservation Award

By Ed Fuentes
Published: Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 08:33AM
Chicken Boy Courtesy of Amy Inouye

Chicken Boy on Broadway before it was moved away in 1984.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The team that saved Chicken Boy will be honored with a , joining other projects that contribute "historic preservation endeavors” throughout the State of California.

That’s a long way from 1984 when Amy Inouye first rescued the 22-foot fiberglass man-chicken holding a bucket over Broadway between 4th and 5th. Chicken Boy was kept in storage until 2007, when Inouye had it

“I refer to this as an art installation,” says Inouye. “It is also tied in to Historic Route 66 and roadside Los Angeles.”

The list of preservation projects and advocates awarded includes homeowners Joe DeMarie and Madeleine Brand for the Bubeshko Apartments in Silver Lake, the City of Los Angeles for the SurveyLA Public Participation Program, and Fiddletown Preservation Society and Garavaglia Architecture for rehabilitation of historic Chinese structures in California’s Gold Rush country.

Honorees will be received by Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado Friday, November 19, at the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento.

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Guest 1

Guest on November 18, 2010, at 09:33AM – #1

So that's why the vaux's swifts keep returning to the Chester Building...they're honoring Chicken Boy!!!


Guest 2

Guest on November 18, 2010, at 09:53AM – #2

I'm glad for Chicken Boy and Amy but honoring people for preserving their own apartment building is sort of a joke. They own it, they're supposed to keep it up.


Chris Loos on November 18, 2010, at 09:55AM – #3

Guest 2 - Its displayed ON her studio, not IN it. As in visible from the street.

http://www.chickenboy.com


Guest 3

Guest on November 18, 2010, at 10:02AM – #4

Oh, those were the days. That Li Ling to the right of Chicken Boy has the best white guy Chinese food downtown then.


Guest 4

Guest on November 18, 2010, at 05:33PM – #5

They didn't "preserve" their own apartment.

They restored an R.M. Schindler mid-century modern Landmark.

Try "The Googles" and see what happens . . . or just spout off.


Scott Piotrowski on November 18, 2010, at 11:28PM – #6

Hooray for another Route 66 landmark in Northeast Los Angeles. Hooray for Chicken Boy. Hooray for Amy!


Guest 5

Guest on November 19, 2010, at 12:45PM – #7

what was chicken boy before 1984. He looks like he may have been the muffler shop guy.


Guest 6

Guest on November 21, 2010, at 12:45AM – #8

Am I the only one that thinks it's ugly? Good for Ms. Inouye for preserving it if that's what she's into, but I don't think it would have been missed much otherwise.


() on November 23, 2010, at 07:10AM – #9

Chicken Boy was customized from the stock figure that was used for all the other 'guys' who stood on top of buildings 'hawking' merchandise, including the Muffler and Carpet guys. I was at UCLA when he went up and when I photographed him for a class, I was told that by the owner.


Scott Mercer on November 23, 2010, at 11:34AM – #10

How long did Chicken Boy preside over Broadway?

We know he was taken down in 1984, so when was he installed? Brady, when did you see him being put in?


Maria Margarita Lopez on November 30, 2010, at 02:38PM – #11

Yay! I still have my Chicken Boy T-Shirt - "Too Tall To Live, Too Weird To Die". It's got the story on the back. Wonder if she's still got the Chicken Boy Catalog going...



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