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Axtell, Nebraska: Smiley Face Water Tower (Gone)

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Directions:
Bethpage Mission, visible from Hwys 6 and 34. Take the main drag a couple blocks north.
Status:
Gone
Smiley Face Water Tower

A yellow smiley face water tower is the friendly mascot of Axtell.

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Smile Face Water Tower.

Smiley Face Water Tower

Corny smile. The smiley-faced water tower smiles over a cornfield at Axtell, Nebraska.

[Ron Leifeld, 01/07/2011]

Ron's shot is from 1981, and Google street view is not encouraging regarding the state of Smileage in Axtell...

Smiley Face water tower

From highway 6 and 34 you can see a water tower painted with a Smiley Face on it. It's at a place called Bethpage Mission. It's the only one in the parts of Nebraska I've been to that I've ever seen.

[David Hupf, 01/31/2003]

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