A Big Bottle of RED...

The Big weekend is upon us, yes the Annual Worlds Largest Catsup Bottle Summerfest is here.

Located in Downtown Collinsville Illinois this white trash convention is Sunday July 10th 2005. Its seems to be in conjunction with 2nd Annual Little Princess Tomato & Little Sir Catsup pageant and the talent portion should contain a magic trick or YO YO demonstration...Im thinking the YOYO could be the pageant obsessed parents who put their kids in these things ,Jon Benet Ramsey ring any bells...

Lest we change our focus, this day is all about what happened in 1947, records show that the W.E. Caldwell Company of Louisville, Kentucky, entered a contract to build the 100,000 gallon water tower. Final drawings were approved in 1948 and the World's Largest Catsup Bottle was completed in October of 1949.

It seems Brooks Old Original Tangy Catsup was all the rage and at one time it was America's #1 seller among tangy catsups, and in the greater St. Louis area it out sold all other brands combined by 2 to 1. ya right ok...

Anyways as these things go, in June 1995 public outrage over tearing down a landmark arose and bingo, the town nuts saved the catsup bottle and now have a festival to get blasted and remember their past...

Wonder if old T Heinz Kerry is planning to Learjet in for the weekend?