Roadside America (or elsewhere)

[BillyTheKid]

Giant Milk Bottle building. Manville, RI.



Inside the bottle:



Today:

 

[BillyTheKid]

Tiny figures. York ME.

 

[highvoltage_]

Giant Milk Bottle building. Manville, RI.

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Inside the bottle:

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Today:

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A bit of a backstory behind this building:

Big Milk Can | quahog.org

quahog.org

 

[Shominy]

Miles The Monster, Dover Int'l Speedway. Yes, real car.

Image in original post is gone, so refreshing it:


Apparently, the car gets changed out from time to time.

 

[dfunghi]

A stocked Prada store in the desert- deep rural US-90, TX (Prada Marfa)

This was actually an art installation.

 

[dfunghi]

Flanders, NY

I stopped at that stand hundreds of times as a kid. Eastern Long Island was full of duck farms up until early 70’s. Including one right on rt. 27 in South Hampton, man did they stink!

 

[Shominy]

Cowboy shrimp, Christie's restaurant, Houston

Same refresh as above:

 

[Shominy]

This was actually an art installation.

I know.

 

[dfunghi]

Sadly, now owned by Google as Silicon Beach eats everything in its path. Was originally an Ad agency IIRC. Main st, right on the Santa Monica - Venice border, California

 

[Shominy]

Star Lite drive-in, Fargo.

More refreshing...

 

[Shominy]

The Longaberger building in Newark, OH.
They are basketmakers.

Refresh...





Opened 1997, closed 2016.
2020- was to open as a luxury hotel. Never materialized/COVID shutdowns.
Currently unoccupied, best I can tell.

 

[init4fun]

Set it up as a giant Halloween spooky house, and advertise it as "Goin to Hell in a Handbasket"

 

[Pio1980]

Same refresh as above:
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Prawn shop?

 

[Pio1980]

Muffler Man II, Meineke Discount Mufflers, Charleston Avenue and D Street, West Columbia, South Carolina

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Aside from those constructed from exhaust system parts;

Muffler man - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[usedto]

United Equipment office building in Turlock, CA - about 30 miles south of here on Hwy 99.

 

[Shominy]

Blue Earth, MN. Apparently the Jolly Green Giant's home.

Refresh of lost image:

 

[Shominy]

The Uniroyal gal in Peoria, IL

Refresh. She has had many looks.

 

[kwayde]

Refresh. She has had many looks.
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Anybody know what her original intent was? Why her arms are positioned the way they are?

Holding a fry pan and ready to clobber her husband? Holding a beer for a toast? Getting ready to pole dance?

Edit:
Did a little search and found this:
https://usagiants.com/2015/06/23/stan-the-tire-man-uniroyal-gal-comes-down-in-mt-vernon-il/

 

[highvoltage_]

Getting ready to pole dance?

 

[init4fun]

Getting ready to pole dance?

18 feet tall and 230 pounds worth of twerking plastic chick, , , , , , interesting......