| Crapperton's giant spinning milk carton |
| Dear Friends, not too far from CRAPPERTON's Amazingly Huge Hole is the Giant Spinning Milk Carton. This is truly a sight, because it's an emblem from a time past when American tastes were surely quite dubious. It stands in front of a building that either used to be, or still is, a dairy distribution plant. I've not really ever figured it out because the building is so small. In any case, there's a pole in front of the building that has a giant milk carton mounted on it. I would say the carton is easily six feet tall. The carton is tilted at an angle and spins around. So because of its angle of tilt, it whirls drunkenly around and it is lit up at night as a beacon for all those dairy-deprived individuals out there. Now, mind you, the last time I saw it, it wasn't spinning around, so perhaps it's broken now or the owners just don't want to pay for the electricity necessary to spin a two-ton milk carton around. Can you imagine, Dear Readers, what thoughts must have run through the owners' heads when they decided to erect this thing back in 1963? I think they believed that people would flock from miles around to see it as one of the wonders of the Modern World. I can just imagine the conversation: "Maw, why don't we jest put a giant milk carton up in front of our store? Ah bet folks from as far away as Oklyhomie would come to see it and buy our tasty milk." "Sure Paw! Let's stuff our life savin's into that project! It's a sure-fire winner!" I'm sure as the Japanese overcame their postwar economic crises the giant spinning milk carton had to have become a focal point of their tourist industry. Can't you just picture them all with cameras photographing the milk carton in all its glory? I can even imagine the owners only spinning it around at certain times of the day, like Old Faithful or the glockenspiel there in Munich. In my imagination I picture it turning promptly at noon to the tune of "Dixie" while onlookers gaze in hushed awe. And think of the postcards! You could have one of the giant milk carton in autumn and another in spring. You could have a romantic one of the full moon hovering just above it in all its pale splendor or one of the carton decked out in its Christmas best. Why even the French would give up the Eiffel Tower to have something like that! It's one of those achievements for which the CRAPPERTONIANs are just so well-known. If you ever happen to go to CRAPPERTON and need to meet up with someone, just tell them to meet you at the Giant Spnning Milk Carton. Just don't fall into the Amazingly Huge Hole on your way there! Go to important matters Go back home |