Pearsonville Uniroyal Gal International Fiberglass made several types of fiberglass statues including the hard to find Uniroyal Girls. The Uniroyal Girl is the female equivalent of the Muffler Man and looks a lot like Jackie Kennedy. Her left arm is held up in the air and her right hand is on her hip. It is believed that at one point she might have carried something like a tire or an oil can. She was originally built in the 1960s for Uniroyal Tire in order to advertise their stores. By 1970 she was available in the International Fiberglass catalog for $3,150 as "Miss America." This price had her arriving in simply a bikini, with the option for clothes costing more. The clothes option included a dress. Uniroyal Girls were 18 feet tall and weigh 230 pounds. There is currently two Uniroyal Girls in California, with the second located in Hayward at the gigantic collection found at Bell Plastics. For the longest time there was only one in California and, despite the town she lives in becoming a ghost town, she can still be found in Pearsonville along highway 395 and is known as the Hubcap Lady named after a former resident, Lucy Pearson, who once collected over 80,000 hubcaps. The town of Pearsonville and the 80,000 hubcabs are now all long gone, but The Hubcab Lady still stands watch over Highway 395, although faded and sun weathered. A second Uniroyal girl was purchased by Bruce Kennedy of Hayward's Bell Plastics from Mount Vernon, Illinois in June of 2015. Like the one in Pearsonville, she also wears a dress. San Diego, once had a Uniroyal Girl and she apparently had multiple outfits that she could wear over the course of the year. She is long gone, however.

Pearsonville Uniroyal Girl (Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea)

(Article courtesy of Paul Gomez)



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"The Sentinel" of August 18, 2002

From Hanford, CA "The Sentinel" of August 18, 2002 Lucy Pearson has 200,000 hubcaps!

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Napa Valley Register August 19, 2002

From the Napa Valley Register August 19, 2002 Lucy Pearson has 200,000 hubcaps

(Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea)
(Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea)	(Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea)
(Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea)

Pearsonville, The Truth and Nothing but the Truth
By Janice Pearson

Text and Photos courtesy of Janice & Lucy: Pearson - Pearsonville, CA 93527
Lucy Pearson in her Pearsonville warehouse full of hubcaps.	L/R: Janice, Lucy, Andy, and Don Pearson
Diana and Don Pearson	L/R: Andy, Lucy, Don, and baby Janice Pearson
Lucy Pearson	Pearsonville on the Rand McNally map.
L/R: Diana, David, Don, and Debbie Pearson
Lucy Pearson	Pearsonville on U.S. 395
Janice Pearson - Junior Year Lone Pine High School	Janice Pearson and "Honey Bee"

Matchbook cover (Courtesy of Rich McCutchan Archives)

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The Great He-Cloudburst of 1922 at Sand Canyon near Brown & Pearsonville
Los Angeles Times Article
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Where the Bottom Fell Out of the Sky - in 1922
By John Edwin Hogg - From Popular Science Monthly
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Photographs courtesy Rich McCutchan Archives
Freeman S. Raymond Freeman S. Raymond Story
Town of Freeman - in the Indian Wells Valley
Town of Freeman- 1909	Town of Freeman - 1909
Freeman Post Office - 1909	Freeman residents - 1909
Freeman residents - 1909
Freeman residents - 1909	Freeman residents - 1909
Algred Butler grave at Freeman - 1909	Ditch below Freeman
Freeman resident - 1909	Town of Freeman - 1909
Town of Freeman - 1909
Freeman stage - 1909
Freeman Post Office - 1909
Winter in the town of Freeman - 1909
Town of Freeman - 1909