Few signs around Phoenix are as eye-catching as Western Exterminator Company's "Little Man." The "Little Man" is really anything but -- the fiberglass figure of a man in a top hat holding a hammer ...

Western Exterminator Co., the family-owned Anaheim firm known for its trademark logo of the little man with a big hammer towering over a mouse, has been sold to British-based Rentokil Initial plc ...

To the rockers, Bay Area commuters and California's visitors, the 17-foot-tall, mallet-brandishing, top-hatted exterminator was known as "Little Man." Last week, he and the Western Exterminator ...

It's juuuust about the start of October when all of those dangly rubber spiders and flies and beetles and worms begin to show up in the Halloween "buy 10 for a buck" bins, ready to add atmosphere ...

Western Exterminator’s Little Man. Western Exterminator’s mascot, dubbed Little Man, first appeared in 1931, 10 years after the pest extermination firm was founded in Los Angeles.

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The best move Western Exterminator ever made was letting the phone company design their logo. The little man with the spats and dark shades has been the company mascot for more than 80 years.

But that is what Western Exterminator is doing this weekend at Mondo Taco in Santa Monica. The company with the iconic “Little Man” sign, founded in 1921, apparently just wants to raise ...