Bubba George, the 4,000 pound LOHO gorilla, has apparently turned 50 years old. Every holiday, someone dresses up Bubba George in an appropriate holiday costume.
The Northside Sun first wrote an article about Bubba George in 1991. The article noted Bubba George's appearance on Douglas Drive and surveyed neighbors' opinions, which were all neutral to positive. The article attributed Bubba George to the Maudi Nichols' family. He was purchased at a Vicksburg pawn shop and installed with a crane.
In 2002, Bubba George recovered from an act of vandalism that was written up in the Northside Sun. Bubba George was knocked over. The police officer investigating attributed the cause to young juveniles with "too much time, too much money and too much beer." John Puckett re-uprighted Bubba George with a crane.
In 2013, the Sun reported that Bubba George had been relocated a few hundred yards, moving west near Douglas Drive and Eastwood Place. The Sun quoted LOHO resident Charles Waterloo saying, "Neighbors welcomed Bubba George to his new home by giving him a spa treatment."
Many LOHO residents use Bubba George as a landmark when giving directions to their homes.
LOHO neighborhood consists of approximately 460 homes south of Meadowbrook Drive, west of I-55, north of Eastover Drive and west of Ridgewood Road.
