3_d
Tourist
Reged: 03/22/03
Posts: 381
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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In another thread, " Small Isn't Small", Aladdin posted a neat ETA-1 of a GIANT cup. Jumble then found a neat image of "said" cup!
I subsequently posted an ETA-2 of a giant milk bottle, located in Montreal, Canada.
Apparently, there are more of these giant milk bottles around North America. They appear to be of the same vintage, around the mid 30s.
I then posted the ETA-3 of the giant Coke bottle I fondly remember in Las Vegas.
This got me to thinking, there must be many more giant objects to be found in the EV world. Sure enough, there is! Here are some that I found. There must be more, so please share any that you have found.
There are a couple of giant Coke bottles scattered around the US but this is the only other one that I could find. It's located in LA. In ETA-4, you can see the bottle in the top left hand side of the Coke building.
Gabriel
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3_d
Tourist
Reged: 03/22/03
Posts: 381
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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Here you can see "Rita's Itallian Ice" shop in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.
Gabriel
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3_d
Tourist
Reged: 03/22/03
Posts: 381
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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Here is the famous GIANT Uniroyal Tire that greets visitors going to Detroit (where else!?!).
Gabriel
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3_d
Tourist
Reged: 03/22/03
Posts: 381
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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If you thought the GIANT Uniroyal tire was hot, check out this hot stove! It is billed as the world's largest stove. The stove is located at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit.
Map of State Fair, pinpointing giant stove.
Gabriel
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3_d
Tourist
Reged: 03/22/03
Posts: 381
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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You need a giant ketchup bottle, after you make fries on a giant stove.
Gabriel
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3_d
Tourist
Reged: 03/22/03
Posts: 381
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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Here is a bottle orgianally known as the Hoffman Soda Bottle that served double duty as a water tower. Now part of Pabst's Brewary, located at South Orange Ave. & Grove Street in Irvington.
Gabriel
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3_d
Tourist
Reged: 03/22/03
Posts: 381
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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Billed as the "World's Largest Christmas Tree" (that certainly is debatable). Situated in Cypress Gardens, Florida.
Gabriel
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esterrett
Master Guide
Reged: 02/27/03
Posts: 2125
Loc: Orlando, FL
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You'll need something to put that Coke in..
Here's a few giant Coke cups, big enough to hold about 20 million cans.
The All Star Resorts at Walt Disney World is a treasure trove of giant objects.
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The five sports themes are: football, tennis, baseball, basketball and surfing. The two 3-story Touchdown buildings have “spectators” lining the railings of each floor with a giant football helmet (large enough to fit a 200-foot tall football player!) encasing the stairwells. The Center Court tennis-themed buildings have a giant tennis racquet that at 51 feet tall is actually large enough to cover an entire tennis court! The tennis balls attached to the balconies are just about 5 feet in diameter. At the Home Run Hotel, super-sized baseball icons such as bats, stadium lights and scoreboards help get visitors in the spirit of things. The giant Coke cup could hold more than 20 million 12-ounce cans of Coke. Huge pennants of various sports teams line the roof of the Hoops Hotel. The megaphone that covers the stairwell is 45 feet tall and the two whistles are 60 feet long and 20 feet high.
The 4-story football helments can also be seen in the attached placemark, just above the building with the Coke cups. The res isn't good enough to make out most of the other icons.
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"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Barack Obama - 10/30/2008
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aladdin
World Explorer
Reged: 06/15/03
Posts: 337
Loc: Southern California
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Here's a page with lots of vessels waiting to be Earth-viewed, including big milk bottles. Big milk bottles web page.
(I looked for a few without much luck - so you're still the milk-bottle king, 3-D!) 
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Geoglyphs!
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blt
Cartographer
Reged: 01/25/03
Posts: 638
Loc: Santa Cruz, Ca
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You may he seen this one in the World Series. I guess it's only fitting that they have a "Giant" coke bottle
I don't know if the "Giant Mitt" has ever caught one of Barry's home runs
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