Giant Hood Milk Bottle (Boston)

The Hood Milk Bottle is 40' tall and 18' in diameter. If it were real, would hold 50,000 gallons of milk. It was built entirely of wood in 1934 as an ice cream stand run by Arthur Gagner in Taunton, MA. It was soon thereafter taken over by Sankeys who operated the stand until 1967. It stood vacant for eight years until Hood Milk was persuaded to buy it. In 1977, it was cut into three sections and moved by barge to Boston's Museuem Wharf. During the move, it briefly stopped to "visit" the Giant Bottle in Raynham, MA. Today, the Hood Bottle still serves as an ice cream stand and snack bar next to the Children's Museum. Hood is the biggest dairy in New England and was founded in 1846

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