![]() In addition to McDonald’s store, some of the six tanks that remain standing have also advertised the old Veterans of Foreign Wars post off County Road W and Evalene’s Gifts and More. ![]() He placed the tanks along Broadway and Columbia back when the two streets were main thoroughfares through the city.Īs car travel shifted to Highway 70 and Interstate 27, the tanks lost their prominence as prime Plainview advertising, but they did not go away. Pete McDonald used the tanks as advertising for his salvage and hardware store that moved out to South Columbia in the late 1940s. Trading Post owner David McDonald said his father Robert “Pete” McDonald bought the tanks when David was very young. ![]() Would have, had they not been sold to McDonald Trading Post as surplus more than 50 years ago. They are Cold War-era aluminum “wing” or “drop” tanks that would have been placed on military aircraft to provide extra fuel during long range flights. They look like they are straight out of a 1950s science fiction movie. In the southeast part of the city there are multiple giant rocket-shaped signs perched high up off the ground.
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