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Milk Bottle Grocery
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Milk Bottle Grocery in 2014
Milk Bottle Grocery is located in Oklahoma
Milk Bottle Grocery
Location in Oklahoma
Milk Bottle Grocery is located in the United States
Milk Bottle Grocery
Location in the United States
Location 2426 N. Classen Blvd., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Area less than one acre
Built 1930
Architectural style commercial style
NRHP reference No. 98000199
Added to NRHP March 5, 1998

The Milk Bottle Grocery is a super cool building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. What makes it special? It has a giant metal milk bottle right on its roof! This unique grocery store was built in 1930. The big milk bottle was added later, in 1948.

The bottle was put there to catch people's eye. It was tall enough to be seen by cars driving along Classen Boulevard. This road was once part of the famous U.S. Route 66. The bottle also helped advertise milk and dairy products.

A Unique Building

The Milk Bottle Grocery is one of the few buildings in Oklahoma City shaped like a triangle. It sits on a corner where Classen Boulevard cuts across the city's streets at an angle. Because of its unusual shape, the store was first called the Triangle Grocery. This name lasted from 1940 until 1948.

When the huge milk bottle was placed on the roof in 1948, the store got its new name: the Milk Bottle Grocery. This name stuck because of its awesome new rooftop decoration!

Its History

Roadside America -- Townley milk bottle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (26447766349)
The building in 1993, when the milk bottle advertised Townley's Milk

On March 5, 1998, the Milk Bottle Grocery building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. This means it's an important historical site that should be protected.

For several years, a Vietnamese sandwich shop called Saigon Baguette was located in the building. In August 2014, there was exciting news! Plans were announced to restore the building. The goal was to make it look like it did when it was first built.

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