Cow Parade Story

After seeing the wonderful Cow Parade cows in Chicago in 1999, Gloria was intrigued by Cow Parade. The first 8 cows reproduced were 6 inch figurines and sold at retail in 2000. The most popular of those 8 cows was Black Dog.

We purchased the first group of 8 cows – 8 of each. We added the 8 cows to the bull category on wallstreetgifts.com. In the description of the 8 cows we stated “if you don’t look down under, you might think this is a cow” since all the cows had horns. All 64 cows were sold within a week!

Wall Street Gifts decided to create a new web site – just for the Cow Parade.  www.cowscowscows.com was born.  CowsCowsCows was the FIRST Internet site created to sell the cows. We sold thousands. After many years Ron Fox, the head of Cow Parade, decided to sell the cows “in house”. The manufacturer Westland Giftware’s contract had ended with the Cow Parade organization. We’d had a good run. The cows had been on display in many US cities but they were also on exhibit overseas. I remember seeing a gorgeous Waterford cow in Dublin, Ireland. It’s name Wage Moo. Absolutely gorgeous.

After Ron Fox “pulled the plug” CowsCowsCows merged back into Wall Street Gifts. Most inventory was sold. A few cows were put in storage. We are now selling those cows. We will tell you if there is a tag or a box. Cow Parade began as part of Wall Street Gifts and is ending at Wall Street Gifts.com.

Over the years of selling Cow Parade, the cow we sold the most of was because of 9-11. Another manufacturer, Character Collectibles, had the license to make miniature Cow Parade cows. They made the Twin Cowers. After 9-11 the company made the decision to not produce any more of Twin Cowers and to unload their inventory. Wall Street Gifts purchased their entire inventory - over 2,000 of the Twin Cowers. All were sold in less than 2 weeks. 

We have ONE of each cow now on sale. Once sold that cow will be removed from our site. So many adorable cows….so many great memories…

Cow Parade sparked a new idea with Ron Foster. He used a similar idea with Trail of Painted Ponies. Our web site then was www.ponyponypony.com  We are also selling off limited inventory that has been in storage for years.