Over half a century ago, the city of Dallas, Texas once was the proud owner of the world’s largest Santa statue (at the time). In 1953, a giant 85 foot metal & papier-machie Santa Claus stood (or rather sat) on the old Porter Chevrolet at the corner of 5500 E Mockingbird. The statue was created by the same man who made the Big Tex, Jack Bridges. He built a giant Santa Claus holding a Chevy car for the 1953 Christmas season.
While the statue is long gone at this point, there ARE photos of this giant Santa that still exist online.
However this giant statue had a tragic secret too…
A Texas man would fall to his death after climbing this giant Santa statue
The statue was only allowed to stay from November 15, 1952 to January 4 1954. During that time children & adults came to see the giant Santa would take photos with it. One man, Roy V Davis, wanted to climb the Santa to pose with it for a Christmas card on December 11, 1953. This was shortly after Roy was released from the hospital for heart problems…