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Get this giant Pabst Blue Ribbon bottle on top of my house NOW
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Get this giant Pabst Blue Ribbon bottle on top of my house NOW
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| William Perlman | Star-Ledger |
Back in the day, PBR was brewed in Newark, New Jersey � you could tell where by the 60-foot-tall beer bottle (really a 55,000-gallon water tank) jutting up over the Garden State Parkway. It was eventually taken down in pieces and stuck somewhere to make way for construction projects � but the bottle recently surfaced in a Newark junk yard, reigniting interest in it. Via Ralph Ortega of the Star-Ledger:
A shopping mall developer also estimated the cost of moving the bottle from its resting place in the East Ward.
New West, which built about 30 homes and plans to construct a commercial shopping center on the old brewery site on South Orange Avenue along the Irvington border, estimated it would cost $200,000 to relocate the bottle. West Ward Councilman Ronald C. Rice said the bottle was to go outside the mall, which would be named accordingly: "Blue Ribbon Square."
Jeff Vanderbeek, owner of the New Jersey Devils had been interested in the bottle as well.
Vanderbeek wanted the bottle for a proposed plaza outside the Prudential Center in downtown Newark, but the plan has been stalled, largely because of a rent dispute between the Devils and the arena's owner, the Newark Housing Authority.
Several people have put the total costs of moving/resurrecting the Pabst bottle at $150-$200K. I know it's a recession, y'all, but WE CAN DO THIS.
give it a brewery specific paint job and mount it on top of Philly brewing Co, Yards, or Dock street!
Hi Perhaps it could be painted and put in an area of the New Newark Park-I went to one of the community meetings in re: to the Park and the Architec was looking for historical pieces of Newark to place under a bridge area. Please contact The Tust for Public Land Susan David at 212 677 7171 or contact me Gaetano Lardieri 44 Rome Street Newark 973 344 1221
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