Chicken Boy

 Received this info in LSA chat a few days ago and finally have a chance to put it together.

The history of Chicken boy from Wikipedia: Chicken Boy was first perched atop a fried chicken restaurant in downtown Los Angeles on Broadway (also Historic Route 66) between 4th and 5th streets, near L.A.'s Grand Central Market in the 1960s. The Los Angeles chicken restaurant bought one and hired an artist to customize it. A chicken head was fabricated to replace the man's head. The arms were re-worked to face forward and hold a bucket, rather than as the axe-wielding original. The iconic downtown statue remained in place until 1984 when the restaurant owner died. The statue was given to Amy Inouye, after many queries and requests, and it went into storage until a suitable location could be found, as it turned out some 20 years later.

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Amy Inouye is an artist and book designer. Chicken boy was restored to its current location in 2007 as a result of community effort and donated funds.

In 2008, Alexandra Grant proposed putting her love logo on a roof of a black family’s house in Watts through the Watts House Project. The community protested it and the idea was changed to a bench and later to a piece on the gate. The project remained unfinished 12 years later despite her grandiose in adding it to her philanthropy belt.

Grant’s idea is narcissistic and self-serving, and the community can see through it. Inoye’s idea was supported by the community and Chicken boy found a new home and was recognized by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with the Governor's Historic Preservation Award in 2010.

Amy Inoye is a book designer and a few years later, Grant hooked Keanu Reeves into giving her the title of book publisher by opening X Artists Books. Coincidence or another lame attempt to copy someone’s success at saving an iconic historical object as art?