{"id":2726,"date":"2024-08-05T03:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T03:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2024-08-05T03:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T03:43:02","slug":"the-giant-pie-lady-of-frackville-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/the-giant-pie-lady-of-frackville-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Pie Lady of Frackville, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 12, 2019, on my way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/nothing-but-trouble-in-centralia-pennsylvania\/\">Centralia, Pennsylvania<\/a>, I rolled into the nearby township of Frackville. Quite by accident, I happened upon a huge statue of a woman holding a pie and a child holding a headless doll. The &#8220;giant pie lady&#8221; stood atop a table, boosting her incredible height. She could easily peer into a second story window of the building behind her. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Frackville-Pie-Lady.webp\" alt=\"Frackville Pie Lady\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Frackville-Pie-Lady.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Frackville-Pie-Lady-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Frackville-Pie-Lady-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Frackville-Pie-Lady-830x623.webp 830w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Frackville-Pie-Lady-230x173.webp 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know her story. I don&#8217;t know what she was constructed from &#8212; maybe fabric or fiberglass covered with resin. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MomFace.webp\" alt=\"Frackville Pie Lady\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MomFace.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MomFace-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MomFace-768x480.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MomFace-230x144.webp 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why her child is holding a headless doll. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KidFace.webp\" alt=\"Frackville Pie Child\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KidFace.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KidFace-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KidFace-768x480.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KidFace-230x144.webp 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/487546254973111\/posts\/2141002509627469\/\">a photo appeared on Facebook<\/a> of the giant pie lady. Her salmon-pink and mustard-yellow clothes were painted to be blue and white. The child&#8217;s garments are now Wolverine-yellow and blue. The doll is still headless.<\/p>\n<p>To whom it may concern: please add a head to the doll.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7706-topaz-cgi-4x.webp\" alt=\"Doll needs a head\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7706-topaz-cgi-4x.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7706-topaz-cgi-4x-300x213.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7706-topaz-cgi-4x-768x545.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7706-topaz-cgi-4x-230x163.webp 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 12, 2019, on my way to Centralia, Pennsylvania, I rolled into the nearby township of Frackville. Quite by accident, I happened upon a huge statue of a woman holding a pie and a child holding a headless doll. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[78,101,63],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roadside-attractions","tag-78","tag-giants","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}