Rocky and Bullwinkle Jay Ward Productions

West Hollywood, California, United States

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A statue of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose, dated 1961, on a traffic island at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive in West Hollywood. The city lists it as 12 feet tall; it was restored in 2014 and dedicated here in 2020.

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Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose were dedicated on a traffic island at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive in West Hollywood in 2020, near where they first appeared on the Sunset Strip in 1961. The city's collection page, archived in 2025, lists them as a permanent installation.

According to the City of West Hollywood, the statue is plaster, fibreglass, paint and steel, credited to artist Bill Oberlin and dated 1961. Deadline, reporting its return in 2020, wrote that the statue dates to 1961 but that its original creator is not known. The city says 5,000 people gathered on 24 September 1961 outside the Jay Ward Productions studio at 8218 Sunset Boulevard for its unveiling, and that it was built to parody a bikini-clad, spinning showgirl on a billboard for the Sahara Casino across the street. The city describes the statue as 12 feet tall; Deadline gave 14 feet and 700 pounds.

On 22 July 2013 the statue was removed from its original site. The city says Jay Ward Productions and DreamWorks Animation took it for restoration by artist Ric Scozzari for a Jay Ward exhibit at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills in 2014. WEHOville reported that the Ward family offered it to West Hollywood in 2015 on condition that it return to Sunset near its original spot. It spent a short time in City Hall in 2016 before the council approved the Holloway triangle, which some residents of the West Hollywood Heights neighbourhood opposed, according to WEHOville.

The city dedicated it on 28 March 2020. At the unveiling, elbowprints in cement echoed those first made in 1961, which the city calls a cheeky response to the handprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

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An outdoor statue on a traffic island at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive, part of West Hollywood's Urban Art Collection. WEHOville reported in 2020 that neighbours had raised pedestrian-safety concerns about the island, so take care near the traffic.

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On a traffic island at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive in West Hollywood, a city-owned public artwork. A 2020 WEHOville report raised neighbours' concerns about pedestrians crossing to reach the island.

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