This roadside giant went up at Shatzer's Fruit Market in Franklin County's Hamilton Township this week. It's an example of roadside architecture, evident for years along the Lincoln Highway and Route 30, to attract attention to stops for motorists. Background posts: Mahlon Haines got in trouble at Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge and Old Lincoln Highway pulled 'Americans out of the mud' and Landmark Modernaire Motel built in Lincoln Highway's heyday.
A modern-day Roadside Giant has been birthed along Route 30 near Chambersburg.
Students at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center assembled an super-sized replica of a 1921 Selden apple truck, complete with crates of produce on the bed, according to the Chambersburg Public Opinion.
It's dimensions?
Eleven feet tall and 26 feet long.
Such oversized structures have been part of old-road architecture for years.
York County's Shoe House, near both Route 30 and the old Lincoln Highway, is a York/Adams example.
This tourist attractions are fighting to stay standing... .
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