Savannah, Georgia: World Globe Storage Tank
A formerly ugly utility storage tank has been turned into beautiful Planet Earth.
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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
- Address:
- 14 E 73rd St., Savannah, GA
- Directions:
- SW side of town, E of Hunter Army Field, 1 block south of Derenne at the corner of White Bluff Rd and 73rd St.
- 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.