I like the peach. I hate the use of the marquee tag.

I've had a website on this subject since 1995. I grew up in Gaffney. There are actually two peach water towers, the one in Gaffney, and one in Clanton Alabama.

The author of that site obviously took much of his text from my site.

The Peachoid Home Page

Andi McDowell comes from Gaffney. I'd throw it in her.

I remember the first time I drove past that thing. I was 8 at the time and I saw it out the window of our car as we were driving to the beach from Virginia. I pointed at it emphaticly and said, "Lookee, lookee, a big orange butt." I was then scolded severely by my mother, who then scolded my chuckling father.

There is another water tower that looks like a peach.
It doesn't look like an giant ass though.

For chrissakes it DOES look like a giant orange ass..

Guess that beats the ketchup-bottle water tower round here

hmm Penticton B.C once had an ice cream stand i do believe in the shape of a peach.. does that count? well the stand is now in ruins .. i think it caught on fire? oh what the hell do i know i don't live there.. but i swear there used to be a peach there too... oh well *sigh* me thinks no one will believe me ...

Shayne, that's not the real Clanton tower. That's the Gaffney tower with a bad cut/paste job.



It's always amazed me that a municipality would erect a public works project in the shape of a fruit, but it's always amazed me even more to think that another municipality would think it was a good idea, and want one, too.

They should have come up with something different. Like a banana shaped water treatment plant or something.

wow whats wrong with the main page!?!

I drove past that thing last year

wow, last year? man thats cool, you must feel special!

I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

hahha. Eliot seems so inaprpriate on this web site that is so over run with ignorant stoners.

i drive from houston to boston and back several times a year and the huge peach is my indication that i've gone half way. that and the prefab log cabin on the side of the interstate.

Useless fact of the day:

If you're standing at the big peach (a.k.a. ass) in Gaffney, you're only about 15 miles from where "The Abyss" was filmed: Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant.

Went up there a few times after the movie came out and grabbed some goodies from the un-struck sets that, to my knowledge, still exist to this day.

I love the tower. It's one of the best parts of the SC leg of a drive to Atlanta I used to make annually. That and, of course, the outrageous ads for fireworks. I think it's legal to sell small thermonuclear devices in SC.

James and the Giant Peach

Damn, SweetieMP, beaten to it. Yeah, it's the first thing I thought of.

You know before they put the leaf on it it looked like a hugely infected womanhood. :)

Of course I only saw it when I crossed to state line to buy fireworks and cheap beer. ;)

..i think this water tower & the orange butt water tower oughta hook up & go bowling

According to last month's edition of this tattoo mag, that soemone left in a stall at my university, the guy who designed this look is a damn good tattoo artist and a pretty good painter as well.

I'll try to get the article scanned in b/f I hit the hay.

EddieCochran: That's eerily reminiscent of the goatse . cx man

This one doesn't do anything. It just sits there.

LMAO, i remember seeing that thing once. It scared me... I used to live a few miles from the giant ketchup bottle. I saw that all the time. When i was like 4, i thought it was going to fall over and pour ketchup on the car as we drove by.....

People think of the weird shiat to spruce up a damn city. *snickers* Thankfully they never did that for my hometown.

Hmmm...Yes, I'm tipsy. WEIRDEST.

The fact that towns have to *manufacture* landmarks to make their town interesting is kind of pathetic in my mind . . .

Bonobo62: You, sir, disgust me.

Peachpoid...hahahahah.

But if your ass looks like a poid, you get to visit Dr. Jellyfinger.

Il ive about 15 miles from that thing. being a northerner, i always wondered what the reaction would be if some put a giant pair of underware on it.

there is a statue of a boll weevil (bug) in Alabama

http://www.thom.org/gallery/statues/weevil/

Testiculus, the patient in that picture is either really enjoying Dr. Jellyfinger or really, really enjoying it . . .

The first time I saw this stupid thing driving south on 85, I thought how good it would be to sneak out there on April 1at and put a giant pair of levi's on the thing (with, of course, the upper portion still showing.)

Anybody work for Levi Strauss or anyone else that can stich together a size 52,000 pair-o-jeans reading this?

Nanookanano: nice reference.

peachoid?

"One of The City's Main Attractions"

which would be pathetic, if one of the "main attractions" in my town wasnt:




*sigh*

Oops, I should have said "Testiculus, the patient in that picture is either really enjoying Dr. Jellyfinger or grins when he experiences unpleasantries . . ."

- too early in the morning, and not enough caffeine in my system yet.

I had a buddy who lived in Gaffney. He was a clogger at age 12. He lost hist virginity and got drunk at 13, and never again since then (He was 20 at the time I knew him).

His mother was literally his grandmother (The mother had sex with her daughters husband and had my friend as a result).

His fanily lived in a converted six car garage, and it looked it, but let me tell you: there was a brand new tv and vcr plus stereo in every room.

There was this kick-ass rock band about 6 or 7 years ago, Johnny Quest, who wrecked their van in Gaffney while on the way to a gig. Big bad firey crash that burned up all their instruments and farked up a few band members. Anyhoo, they made up tour t-shirts after that that featured the peach on one side with the words "Johnny Quest Welcomes You To Gaffney, SC" and a picture of their burning van on the other. Whatever happened to those guys?

bah, ill add it here for good measure ""

Any one driven through Stanton Iowa recently? They had a coffee pot water tower because Folgers "Mrs. Olson" was born there. But what's really weird is all the farkin homes are painted white, every single one... Haven't been back there in while.

I also had the experience of driving by that thing, laughed so hard almost peed my pants, only down South I guess.

I remember before they repainted it and it was painted in flesh tones, they made a good choice in making it more peach-like.

the nazi indian at a local high school

Oye. I'm from the area, I've driven by that ass a few times myself.... I don't know what's wrong with those people (in gaffney)