Savannah, Georgia: World Globe Storage Tank
Formerly an ugly utility storage tank, turned into beautiful Planet Earth, now part of a Starbucks drive-thru.
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The Globe was purchased by a woman who owns a mortgage company. While she has left the landmark with the image of the earth on it, she has somewhat defaced it by emblazoning advertising for her mortgage company across it. So much for taste, I suppose.
[C Knight, 06/14/2006]
Big globe -- recently repainted for the new Millennium. It was originally used as a storage tank for the local gas company. In 1956, R.E.Turner, Jr. (Cable mogul Ted Turner's father) talked the company into painting it like a globe. The repaint is a little different -- it is now painted as the earth is seen from space. It even has a hurricane cloud formation heading straight towards Savannah.
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World Globe Storage Tank
Starbucks
- Address:
- 11 E. DeRenne Ave., Savannah, GA
- Directions:
- Starbucks. On the south side of GA-21/E. DeRenne Ave. just east of its intersection with White Bluff Rd.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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John Strickler points out that "This globe can be seen briefly in the Sandra Bullock/Ben Affleck movie 'Forces of Nature.'" Tipster Dave Schneider reports "when they painted the hurricane [Floyd] heading toward Savannah, they goofed up and had it rotating clockwise! It was a big joke in town until it was re-painted correctly." Photo by Peter ter Haar added April 2005.