The origins of Chicken Boy: Now sitting atop Inouye’s Future Studio Gallery on Figueroa Street in Highland Park, the 22-foot Chicken Boy has been a bizarre L.A. fixture since the late 1960s. Chicken Boy was previously houses atop Broadway between Fourth and Fifth streets. From the L.A. Times archives:

Nothing is constant. Downtown shifts from Anglo super center to Mexican fiesta. From carriage trade to shopping bag bus traffic.

What Broadway had been it will never be again. What is today will be different tomorrow.

And the silly effigy of the Chicken Boy will watch, through frozen eyes, the kaleidoscoping movement of people.

Seems like Chicken Boy’s kind of a creep. But nonetheless, find out more via the Framework blog!

Photos: Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times; John Malmin / Los Angeles Times

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   There’s a Chicken Boy on Fig near my hood and I’ve never seen it?! Rolling my eyes at myself

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    I’ve always wondered.

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    Chicken Boy

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