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A 30-foot-tall Uncle Sam statue at Sparky's Burgers, Barbecue & Espresso (115 Franklin St, Hatch), holding a green chile pepper near a large red chile display. Part of 'Teako's Giants of Hatch,' a sprawling roadside collection assembled by owners Teako and Josie Nunn since 2006 (restaurant opened 2008); Uncle Sam is the collection's single individually-dimensioned standout piece, confirmed via the Library of Congress. Per the established multi-object-collection standard, only this specifically-documented figure is promoted; the rest of Sparky's undimensioned collection (A&W Burger Family, Colonel Sanders, Ronald McDonald, Yogi Bear, Robin Hood, a giant pig and chicken, the Statue of Liberty, an alien, Sparky the robot, a Muffler Man cowboy holding a model RV, and others) is held forensic as a genre cluster.
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Uncle Sam (Sparky's)
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Site-level location · 32.6653° N, 107.1526° W
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Free, publicly visible statue outside an operating restaurant.
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115 Franklin St, Hatch, NM (Sparky's Burgers, Barbecue & Espresso).
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