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Giant Containers (page 1)

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Jar of Nutella
Chicago, IL		 Cookie Jar House
Glendora, NJ
This Jar of Nutella is installed inside the Nutella Cafe which opened in 2017.

The Cookie Jar House was built in 1947. It was to be the first of several cookie jar houses but the others were never built. The three stories are connected by a spiral staircase. The round building originally had a flat roof and stucco exterior. The bricks were added later. [map]

Vick's VapoRub Jar
Philadelphia, PA
The Vick's VapoRub Jar water tower is now used as a cell phone tower. The factory building below was built in 1923. It now houses American Can & Recycling. The third photo above was taken in 2013 when the cell phone tower features were removed. [third photo thanks Joe Durrance] [map]

Libby's Fruit Cocktail Can
Sunnyvale, CA
The Libby's Fruit Cocktail Can water tower once supplied water to the Libby's plant, the largest cannery in the world. This water tower was built in 1965, replacing the original. The can itself is about 25 feet tall and is painted with a 1935 label. When the cannery was replaced with the Sunnyvale Industrial Park, the City required that the tower be spared. For more, see this website. [map]

Turpentine Can
Lake Placid, FL		 Maple Syrup Can [gone]
St. Johnsbury, VT
This Turpentine Can functions as a trash can. It has been here since at least 2008. The turpentine industry was an important part in Lake Placid history. For more, see this website. [map]

The Maple Syrup Can stood in front of Maple Grove Farms when this photo was taken in 2005. The can was blown over in a storm in 2012 and damaged beyond repair. There are no plans to replace it.

Maple Syrup Jugs:
Ferrisburgh, VT [map]
Pittsford, VT [gone]

Shasta Can [gone]
Hayward, CA
2008: 2014:

Shasta Can
La Mirada, CA
The revolving Shasta Can was located at the Shasta Beverages plant. It was built around 1966. The label was repainted from orange soda to lemon-lime soda. The Can had a Black Cherry label in 2005. The Can sign was removed around 2019.

An identical Shasta Can is located at the Shasta Beverages in La Mirada. [map]

Pepsi Can
Atmore, AL		 Pepsi Can
Memphis, MO		 Pepsi Can
Memphis, MO
This Pepsi Can recycling kiosk in Atmore is located next to the Pepsi Bottling Group. It is 14 feet tall and was installed in 2010. [map]

The first Pepsi Can shown above is 15 feet tall and located at the bottling plant in town. It has been there since at least 2012. [map]

The second Pepsi Can is about six feet tall and installed on top of the waterslide at the city swimming pool in Legion Park. It has been there since at least 2009. [map]

Six-Pack of Pepsi [gone?]
Syracuse, IN		 Six-Pack of Beer
La Crosse, WI		 Six-Pack of Beer
Laredo, TX
This Six-Pack of Pepsi on a trailer was parked next to Kraft Auction Service. It was part of an auction in 2025 and it is probably gone now. [map]

The World's Largest Six-Pack of Beer is located at the City Brewery. The cans are over 54 feet tall and are used as holding tanks for beer. They hold enough to fill over seven million cans of beer. The Six-Pack was installed here by the Heileman Brewery which was founded in 1858 and closed in 1999. When Heileman was bought out by City Brewery, the Old Style painted labels were covered with white paint. The cans were later covered with vinyl La Crosse wraps. In 2023, new wraps with the Old Style label were installed. Across the street from this Six-Pack is a statue of King Gambrinus, the King of Beer. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]

The Six-Pack in Laredo has been here since at least 2007. The building has been used by various beer stores and has been painted with different brands. It was also painted as a Pepsi six-pack around 2005 when the store was known as the Super Six. The building was vacant when this photo was taken in 2018. In 2019, another beer business had moved in. The cans were painted green, white, and red and had some beer labels. The building is now painted red with no labels and houses a tire shop. There is a similar six-pack building in Mission, TX that might have been built by the same company for a beverage business. [map]

Potosi
Beer Can
Potosi, WI		 Beer Can
Bovina, TX		 Lite Beer Can
Altamont, IL		 Budweiser Beer Can
Lavaca, AR
This Potosi Beer Can was based on the company's 1950s design. It is installed next to the former Potosi Brewery. The Can is about 40 feet tall. It may have been used as a silo originally. [map]

This Beer Can is located in front of the Cattleguard liquor store. It was installed sometime after 2013. [map]

This 24-foot-tall Lite Beer Can is installed in front of the On The Rox Pub & Grub. It was built from a water storage tank and has been there since around 2018. [map]

This Budweiser Beer Can is located at Belle Point Ranch. The owner, David McMahon, was a cattle breeder and beer distributor. He had one of his silos painted like Budweiser can by Earl Harris in 1975-1976. [map]

More Beer Cans:
Fitger's (Duluth, MN)
Coors (Baker City, OR) [gone]

Campbell's Soup Can
Fort Collins, CO
This Campbell's Soup Can was installed here in 1981 at the Colorado State University Center for the Arts. There was an Andy Warhol exhibit here at the time and the Soup Can was signed by Warhol. These photos are from 2012. The Can was restored in 2013. For more, see this website. [map]

Campbell's Soup Can
Eastland, TX
This Campbell's Soup Can was built by Cathi Ball in 2002 for the Eastland Outdoor Art Museum. It is 15 feet tall. The sculpture is a tribute to Andy Warhol and pop art. The Can was repainted in 2024. [map]

More Campbell's Soup Cans:
Milwaukee, WI

More Cans:
Tomatoes (Branson, MO)

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