Friday, July 22, 2022

Spokane's Two Milk Bottles

 


You've driven by them 100 times...... the big white Milk Bottles in the Garland district and downtown just east of the First Presbyterian Church. Haven't you wondered about them??

According the Wikipedia, the big Benewah Milk Bottles are  landmarks in Spokane and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are two milk-bottle shaped buildings, both constructed to accompany a dairy operation's store. 

These "bottles" date back to 1935 and were commissioned by Paul E. Newport, owner of the prosperous Benewah Dairy Company, and were designed to serve as stores for the dairy's products. At 38-feet tall and 15-feet wide, the stuccoed  structures were in large part intended to appeal to children.

Company ads of the day were designed "to build better men and women by making dairy products attractive to boys and girls. No expense will be spared to make these new stores as sturdy and fine as good as the products they represent." 

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