Harvey the Giant Rabbit

Aloha, Oregon, United States

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Harvey the Giant Rabbit is a fibreglass statue about 26 feet tall at 21250 SW Tualatin Valley Highway, Aloha, Oregon. It began as a damaged Texaco Big Friend figure that Harvey Marine's owner, Ed Harvey, fitted with a rabbit head in the 1970s.

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Approximate location · 45.494° N, 122.869° W

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Along Tualatin Valley Highway in Aloha stands a rabbit-headed giant that has stood beside the highway since the 1970s.

Harvey began as something else. Oregon news reports say the figure was a Texaco Big Friend, a gas-station attendant statue of a type related to the Muffler Man, damaged in a storm and brought to Ed Harvey, a fibreglass expert who ran Harvey Marine. KOIN in 2018 named the Columbus Day storm of 1962 and said the owner never returned for it. The Hillsboro News Times in 2017 reported the company's account that the statue arrived in 1969 and was installed outside the shop in 1974, with the rabbit head added later. KOIN instead dates the rabbit head and the mascot to 1974, and Portland Monthly says the early 1970s.

The rabbit comes from the 1950 film Harvey, in which Jimmy Stewart's character has an imaginary rabbit friend. Ed Harvey told a website in the 1990s: "At boat shows we'd have a guy walk around in a rabbit suit. Then we got the idea to put a rabbit head on the big man."

The Hillsboro paper gave his height as 20 feet, or 26 with the ears. Explore Tualatin Valley in 2025 gives 26 feet and 2,500 pounds, and says holiday props such as a Christmas tree, a turkey, a Valentine's heart and a jack-o'-lantern are placed in his hand. It also repeats a local legend that anyone who fails to wave risks a flat tire.

KOIN reported in 2018 that Harvey Marine had closed and that Ed Harvey died in 2017, but the statue stayed; a sign in its hand that year read, "I'm staying." The statue's own website says it was repainted in 2024 and is due to be moved slightly for a new sidewalk and the renovation of the 1880s building.

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A roadside figure beside Tualatin Valley Highway in Aloha. Explore Tualatin Valley (December 2025) says holiday props such as a Christmas tree, turkey, Valentine's heart and jack-o'-lantern are placed in its hand through the year. It is a quick stop to photograph from the street.

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Stands at 21250 SW Tualatin Valley Highway, Aloha, at the Harvey Marine site, which is private property. View it from the street. The statue's own website says it is due to be moved slightly for sidewalk work.

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