Lee Woods
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22 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Lee Woods’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay, my name's Lee Woods at American Giants Museum here in Atlanta, Illinois.
I'll let Lee explain what it is.
Pretty much statues, fiberglass figures from the mid to early 60s in here that we found out in the wild and brought back in here to show people.
And these statues were all to advertise.
Advertise, yeah.
The more kind of quirky or weird it was, the better people would pull in there and see what they had going on.
So back then, they worked real good back then.
So everybody was trying to get one and try to come up with something different.
So like our mascot out there is a Texaco Big Friend.
Texaco ordered 300 of those.
in 66.
The problem is they was putting them out on a cart system and rolling them out towards the street and everything, and they'd have winds or storms come.
They'd fall over and fell on cars.
People was getting hurt.
They was getting sued, which I didn't even know people knew what suing was back in the 60s, but that's what happened.
So Texaco deemed them all to be demolished and everything.
So now there's only six known to exist, and we have two of them.
That's what I like is that you see everything's different.
Everybody's got blinders on now.
And I think when you travel Route 66, they come off.
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