EDiF2018 - PNW "F" #6 - The FREMONT TROLL

Seattleites are, and always have been, a little weird. No place in the city are they weirder, perhaps, than in the Fremont District. Every year people come here from far and wide to celebrate the Summer Solstice with an amazing parade of revelers in elaborate costumes (think Mardi Gras or Carnevale). 
They enjoy crazy performers, elaborate art cars, and taking off their clothes. They then paint their bodies in gaudy colors and ride their bicycles naked down the parade route.
Visitors come for the fun there, and also to see the most famous and beloved resident of the District, The FREMONT TROLL, the giant who lives under the end of the Aurora Bridge at Troll Avenue and 36th St. The interactive sculpture, made of rebar and concrete in 1990 by Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter and Ross Whitehead, is 18 feet tall, weighs 13,000 pounds and clutches in his hand a hapless VW Beetle from California, who perhaps did not pay his troll toll. Visitors are encouraged to climb him, and take a poke at his one good eye (a hubcap).