Neat! Where is this?
“If there’s one thing this world needs it’s more donut-shaped coffee-and-donut shops with creative names like The Donut Hole. Pictured here in 1970, this one was at 15300 Amar Road in La Puente, around 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. I trust that driver entering via “Do-Nut Blvd” enjoyed his morning commute loaded up with the Hole’s offerings. This style of architecture is known a “mimetic” because the building itself mimics its purpose.“
Via Martin Turnbull
“100 years ago, the world’s largest Nehi bottle was built in Auburn Alabama.
From 1924 to 1933, the lot at the corner of Alabama Highway 147 and U.S. Highway 280 held an impressive roadside attraction: The world’s largest Nehi bottle.
The 64-foot-high, bottle-shaped building was constructed as a promotion for the Nehi Cola brand, but it served the community as a grocery, gas station and housing for the store’s owners for nearly a decade. Before long, people began calling that corner “The Bottle” and the name stuck.
Today, after 100 years, the lot where the bottle stood is empty except for a historical marker. But you can still find the name on Alabama maps – just type the intersection into a mapping app and you’ll see that intersection labeled “The Bottle.”
The bottle was 49 feet in circumference at the base and 16 feet around at the cap on top. It said NEHI Beverages on the outside. Visitors were allowed to tour the bottle, climbing to the top of the bottle neck to see a 360-degree view of the countryside.
At one point, there was a small barbecue stand in the Bottle that was operated by, Hattie Bocsford Wilson.
One morning in 1933, the newly married Margaret Bradley Earnest was still living on the family farm when she saw smoke coming from the intersection. She rushed to the scene to be sure her aunt Hattie was safe. She was. She had crawled from a second-story window and jumped into a sheet held beneath the window by neighbors.
No one was injured that day, but the Bottle was destroyed. In 2015, Auburn historians erected a historical marker on the empty lot that tells the story of The Bottle.“
Via Black Wax Cafe
As I raise my morning coffee, I see your post.
Cheers!
Glad to see it has AC.
Not all food but pretty unusual:
Tokyo–I guess if they can have hedgehog cafes (no kidding!) they can have a strawberry house:
I’m bummed that Tom’s Mr. Hedgie is reported as permanently closed! Mrs. ricepad would lose her shit visiting a hedgehog cafe! She loves her some hedgies!
Well then you be the first to let her know that all is not lost!
The Chiku Chiku Cafe is as frolicsome as ever!!!
And since she is an animal lover, we now will have the first instruction in the proper way to wish sayonara to Tokyo restaurant patrons:
I rode in one during a Special Olympics fest in Trenton NJ. Wasn’t permitted to drive tho.
I read recently the mobile tipped over on a highway damaging the exterior pretty badly. Forget where this happened.
Looks pretty rickety for an installation.
Not food-shaped, but pretty damn funny. Driving Through New England in L.L. Bean’s Bootmobile - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Super! Can we open this up to more than food?
Go for it!
Wait . . . This has been just about food???
