Need a twelve-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex to keep people or neighborhood dogs off your lawn? Or how about a nice big alligator to lie entwined in your shrubbery? Maybe a nice cobra, or a serious-looking gorilla? Or perhaps a sorrowful-looking pit bull to keep salesmen at bay? They are all available -- for a price.
Probably only California has more funky places and things than Florida, but Florida is surely a close second. And one of the funkiest is located in northeastern Florida at the intersection of US 17 and SR 40, a wide spot in the road called Barberville, where a two-acre lot is filled with all of the above and much, much more at Barberville Yard Art.
I asked some employees how long the place had been there. No one knew, but one said she used to pass it on her way to college in the early 1970s. Like the sign says, "It's one of a kind!"
Photographs and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.
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