The Boy with the Bocor Boot is a statue that shows a young man, with his right foot naked, holding his right boot and looking at it. The statue is about 4 feet (1.2 m) high, and in many cases forms a fountain, with water emerging from the tip of the shoe. There are at least 24, and reported "hundreds" of examples. The origin of the statue is not clear. The boy was reportedly a seller of a drowning young Italian newspaper, or a young American drummer boy who carried water in his leaky boots to help his fallen comrades, or a young fire warrior who wore his shoes in a bucket chain or emptied his legs. boot after the incident, or maybe none of this. The statue is also called The Boy with Boot Leaky , Boy Immigrant and Booting Malang .
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Origins
The origin of the "Boy with the Boot" fountain/fountain is uncertain. It appears that the first statues appeared in the US c.1895 and are considered to have been purchased in Europe by wealthy tourists on the "Grand European Tour". Many of the stories that tell the statues are from Germany, but they have not been confirmed.
However, the relationship between the statue and Germany may have more validity. Patrick Patterson of Clovis, California bought what was supposedly the "original" bronze print for Boy with a Boot statue in 1998 from an antique dealer (Lamoine Abbott) from San Angelo, Texas. This mold from Boy with a Boot statue is sold to a Texas dealer by "Midwest Exchange, Inc." from Shawnee, Wisconsin in 1981. Midwest Inc. Exchange related molds come from Mr. Henry Braun, from Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Braun is believed to emigrate from Germany in 1920 and may have brought this mold with him. Interestingly, it is stated that Henry Braun is "uncle" Eva Braun.
Bronze molds may be "original" prints because the "original" statue was casted in "white metal" (zinc) by the process of "pulp molding"... a process very different from the lost wax casting method.
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Statues in the United States
Among the earliest statues are in Sandusky, Ohio, where he stands in front of the Porter House hotel on the shores of Lake Erie. The original zinc statue was brought from Germany in 1876 by a prominent local couple, Mr. and Mrs. Voltaire Scott. After cyclone damage and some vandalism incidents, the statue was transferred to the lobby of the local Town Hall, and a replacement bronze was installed in a fountain in Washington Park.
In Helena, Montana, a statue stands in front of the "Natatorium", built in 1889 and houses the largest indoor plunge pool in the world, as part of the Broadwater Hotel complex. The statue is now in the former First National Bank Building on Last Chance Gulch in the city.
One of the statues was founded at Courthouse Park in Fresno, California in 1895. It was a drinking fountain, funded by a public subscription hosted by Sergeant Nichols of the Salvation Army. Tin cups are hung from sculptures, and pipes are cooled by blocks of ice. The statue was purchased from J. L. Mott Iron Works of New York. The statue was removed, destroyed and repaired on numerous occasions, re-shaped in bronze in 1947, and back again in 1995. It is currently at the Fresno County Plaza on Tulare Street.
The sculpture, founded in 1895 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, had a similar existence, damaged by a horse-drawn vehicle in 1910 and was later treated by a local fire brigade, outside whose station he stood with various damage and recovery incidents including beheaded in 1998 (heads were handed over to the police three days later). A concrete foundation of the statue was created and erected in 2009. The original statue, restored, was in 2010 still in fire-fighting ownership and it was reported that "An idea that seems to garner support is to install it in a glass box inside Fire Station # 1. A statue of the boy highlights the fountain on Main Street and School Street in Wallingford, Vermont, United States, and has been the center of the city since 1898.
There are five statues in five different locations in New Orleans since 1898 when the first was established at Milliken Children's Hospital of Charity. Booting, all that remains after the statue was destroyed in 1961, is reported to complement the current hospital administrator table. The latest statue stands in the swimming pool at Children's Hospital.
The village of Ellenville claims to have three of these statues: a 1997 model in Liberty Square village, a statue purchased in 1925 at the Public Library, and allegedly dating from before 1908 and is currently awaiting recovery. The last statue was made by JL Mott Iron Works and was erected in the yard of the house which was later occupied by Henry Brodhead, who was a paymaster for Mott Iron Works until the company moved from New York to Trenton, New Jersey in 1908. It was used by sculptor Matt Pozorski when creating the 1997 version. The statue is described as an "essential icon of Ellenville".
A statue was erected at High Point Mansion, Hershey, Pennsylvania, then the home of Milton S. Hershey and his wife Catherine, to replace the more energetic fountain that made Mrs. Hershey unhappy with her favorite seat spray when there was a breeze. Now at Hershey Gardens. When Mrs. Hershey died in 1915, this statue had to come from that year or before.
In Penrose, Colorado, a bronze statue was founded in 1915, presented to the city by Spencer and Julie Penrose. After a general story of kidnapping and damage, it was presented to the Penrose School in 2005 and stored there in the display case. This is the property of Senior Citizens Penrose.
A well-preserved statue with eight working fountains can be seen in Houlton, Maine, at Pierce Park. It was purchased in 1916 after Mrs. Clara P. Frisbie left the city of $ 1000 to beautify the park. This statue is featured in an introductory flash page of the city's website.
A statue stood at City Hall Park in El Paso, Texas for 50 years before being transferred to San Jacinto Plaza, in the 1950s. There it is protected by a moat containing crocodiles. In 1995 was in El Paso City Hall.
A statue was purchased by Baker County, Oregon around 1908 when the county courthouse was built. The "kid" was the center of the fountain in front of the courthouse where he stood with his leaked boots when four lion heads spewed water at him from the four corners of the fountain. After some improvements due to vandalism he was taken into the courthouse and finally wrapped up on June 9, 1975.
Further sculptures have been reported to exist in the United States in Salida, Colorado (at the Heart of Rockies Regional Medical Center), and Council Bluffs, Iowa
Statues in Canada
A statue in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, was originally donated to the city by the Society of Young Endeavor and the Council of Commerce and Labor in honor of Queen Victoria's golden jubile in 1897. It was part of a fountain outside the old town hall, and moved to park in 1953 with funding from the Rotary International Fellowship Order.
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Another statue was given to the town of Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, in 1918 by John Carlbom or Calborn. It was reported that he was a Swedish immigrant to Cleethorpes who had built a successful shipping business and became a Swedish Consul, and that the statue was a copy of one in Hasselbacken Restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. The statue of Cleethorpes now stands in a pond at the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Gardens, in Kingsway. It was stolen and replaced in 2002 and 2008, and was vandalized in October 2011. In July 2012, two young men were recorded on CCTV because they played nude in the pool and destroyed the fountain. The replacement sculpture was made by a local garden display manufacturer and installed with enhanced security in September 2012. A nearby pub was named The Leaking Boot , but was destroyed by a fire in June 2009.
Statues in Cuba
In 1925 a statue was erected in Cuba at Parque Vidal Santa Clara, purchased from J. L. Mott from New York by Colonel Francisco LÃÆ'³pez Leiva. where it has become a symbol of the city. This is known as Boy with Boot Malang. At some point it was broken, and it was replaced in 1970 by a bronze statue. It has been described as "one of the symbols of this city".
Sculpture in another location
Copies of the statue are also located in Stockholm and Svappavaara, Sweden and Caracas, Venezuela.
Messages
Mary'n B. Rosson (died November 14, 2002) wrote an article in True West Magazine about the restoration of the El Paso statue. "A letter about a boy in another city poured out, filled with Boy's information," and he "felt compelled" to write a book about sculpting: Mystery of a Boy With a Leaking Boot . It was published in 1997 by The Record-Courier from Baker City, Oregon.
References
Further reading
- Grissom, Carol (2009). "6.23 Boy with a leaky boot". Statue of Zinc in America: 1850-1950 . Associated University Presses. pp.Ã, 330-333. ISBNÃ, 9780874130317 . Retrieved March 25 2013 . Ã, < i> List of 33 current or sculpted locations in the United States
- "Leaking Boot". Ã, A collection of unauthorized information on sculptures of Boy with the Leaking Boot .
- Three stories are not sourced: One from Civil War and two from Fire Department.
- "The Boy and the Boot". RoadsideAmerica.com . Retrieved July 9 2009 . Ã, Description and location of 11 American statues.
External links
- Willis, James. "The Boy with the Boot". Weird and Spooky Blog from James Willis . Retrieved March 25 2013 . Ã, Includes illustrations some pieces of "Boy" memorabilia
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