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posted 11/13/09 10:37 AM | updated 11/13/09 07:55 AM
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Glimpses: "The Elephant is back"

By James Callan
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Day 308/365 - The Elephant is back

(From the SunBreak Flickr pool.) Aurora's famous elephant is back, and Great Beyond has the shot.

Huzzah! The Elephant sign has been fully restored and now sits atop it's place of honor on Aurora once more

The back story on the elephant goes like this: Sometime in the 1920s or '30s, Giovanni "John" Braida decided to build the sculpture to keep his employees busy during the Great Depression. His idea was to create a one-of-a-kind, life-size piece to show off their craftsmanship skills.

Great Beyond has more to the story with his photo on Flickr.

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Yeahhh!
Great news - one of my all-time fave Seattle attractions. So sad in recent years to see this noble phant's belly dribbling out some kind of weird stuffing/birdnest material.

Congrats to all involved!
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Yes, its, not it's. It is vs. owned by it.

Your pedantic friend,
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