World’s Largest Spinach Can-Alma
Title:World’s Largest Spinach Can, Alma
Location:Arkansas, USA
Description:Bowles tried to stir up some publicity by fomenting a good-humored rivalry between the towns. He shipped a package of Popeye Brand spinach (Allen Canning is the official licensee of the Popeye trademark.). Also in the package was a bundle of Arkansas soil and a bottle of Arkansas water (Texas has for years tried to buy agricultural water from Arkansas.). Bowles never heard back from Crystal City. I have to conclude that they would have been embarassed to contest Alma’s claim.
Just to drive the point home, Bowles commissioned Alma’s own eight-foot statue of Popeye and a four-foot base for the town square. Here it is across the street from City Hall, next door to the water company. The work was done in papier mache by Red Moore of Mountainburg, assisted by his wife, Barb. For his work, Red got $2400, about half of which was donated by Allen Canning. The statue was unveiled at the town’s annual May Daze Festival and was shortly thereafter stolen, probably by kids from Alma High School (home of the Fightin’ Airedales), just a hundred yards away. The sailor man was later recovered from a Wal-Mart trash bin.
Location:Arkansas, USA
Description:Bowles tried to stir up some publicity by fomenting a good-humored rivalry between the towns. He shipped a package of Popeye Brand spinach (Allen Canning is the official licensee of the Popeye trademark.). Also in the package was a bundle of Arkansas soil and a bottle of Arkansas water (Texas has for years tried to buy agricultural water from Arkansas.). Bowles never heard back from Crystal City. I have to conclude that they would have been embarassed to contest Alma’s claim.
Just to drive the point home, Bowles commissioned Alma’s own eight-foot statue of Popeye and a four-foot base for the town square. Here it is across the street from City Hall, next door to the water company. The work was done in papier mache by Red Moore of Mountainburg, assisted by his wife, Barb. For his work, Red got $2400, about half of which was donated by Allen Canning. The statue was unveiled at the town’s annual May Daze Festival and was shortly thereafter stolen, probably by kids from Alma High School (home of the Fightin’ Airedales), just a hundred yards away. The sailor man was later recovered from a Wal-Mart trash bin.
