vania, not far from our office, are a pair of giant Dixie®
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crayons. A check on the Internet yield- ed a bonanza of what is referred to as “roadside Americana,” including the gi- ant Catsup bottle water tower Chuck mentioned in his article. There is also a large metal tank painted up like a tomato soup can outside the Camp- bell’s plant in Napoleon, Ohio, a water tower at a distillery in Louisville, Ken- tucky disguised as a giant bottle of bourbon, another Dixie cup tower in Lexington, Kentucky, and a tower in Westminster, Colorado painted as a can of Savery Savory Mushrooms. Of course, you don’t have to limit yourself
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huck Diljak’s article on model- ing the beer bottle water tower brought back childhood memo- ries of trips down to the Shore to visit relatives. The water tower in Newark was a local landmark that was easily viewed from the highway and my sister and I would watch out the car windows for it. While it stood out from its sur- roundings, it wasn’t unique. In fact, as I was to later learn, there are/were many interesting structures like it across the country. In Easton, Pennsyl-
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