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| Giant Globes (page 2) |
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| Globe [gone] Idaho Falls, ID |
Globe [gone?] Rantoul, IL |
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The Globe in Idaho Falls was installed in front of Andersen Manufacturing Inc. This photo is from 2014. By 2015, the globe was gone.
I believe the Globe in Rantoul was located near the Furniture World building. However, I can't match up any of the building details in this photo from 2009 with anything at Google Street View. So, if anyone knows where this globe is/was or anything else about it, I'd love to hear from you. It appears that it was installed on a safe. |
| Globe Arcola, IL |
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| This etched, black marble Globe was installed on Memorial Day 2002. The memorial features quotes from generals, the Bible, and others. A time capsule is buried inside. [map] |
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More Illinois:
Willis Tower Globe (was Chicago; now Elmhurst) [map] Hand with Globe (Pana) |
| Halliburton Globe Hugoton, KS |
Global Flyer Monument Salina, KS |
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The Halliburton Globe in Hugoton is installed at the Gas Museum. Halliburton makes products used in the oil and gas industries. The local Halliburton supplier donated the globe to the museum around 1990. The company's "winged H" logo with a globe was designed in 1947. [map]
The Global Flyer Monument in Salina was installed at Fosset Plaza at the Salina Airport in 2018. It is 16 feet tall and was produced by B&B Metal Arts from stainless steel. The monument marks the spot where Steve Fossett began and ended his solo flight around the world in 2005. [map] |
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More Kansas:
Floral Globe (Wadsworth) [vintage; gone] Kentucky:
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| Globe Roseland, LA |
Globe Wellesley, MA |
Globe Germantown, MD |
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This Portland globe is mounted on top of the Portland Luggage store sign. [map]
This Globe in Roseland is installed at Smitty's Supply Inc.'s world headquarters. The company moved here around 2015 and this globe was installed then. [map]
The Globe in Wellesley is 28 feet in diameter and weighs 25 tons. It was designed in 1947 and finished in 1955. The tiles fell off in 1984 and, by 1991, it was just a rusty ball. The revolving mechanism broke in 1993 and it hasn't spun since then. It was restored in 1993 with the help of DeLorme. It is on the campus of Babson College, outside the former Coleman Map Building (now Coleman Hall, a residence hall). In 2018, it was announced that the globe would be restored. It was reinstalled in 2019 in Kerry Murphy Healey Park. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]. The Globe in Germantown is a steel water tank which was built in 1980. It is located on the property of Montgomery College. The tank is 100 feet in diameter and holds two million gallons of water. It cost nearly $2 million to build. This photo is from 2004. In 2011, the globe was repainted. [map] |
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More Massachusetts:
Mapparium (Boston) |
| Globe Yarmouth, ME |
Globe Minot, ND |
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This Globe in Yarmouth, nicknamed "Eartha", is located at DeLorme's headquarters. It was built in 1998 and is 41 feet in diameter. It is the world's largest, revolving globe. It is on display in a three-story atrium, quite visible from the highway. DeLorme also has an incredible map store. For more, see this website. [map]
This Globe in Minot was probably installed by I. Keating Furniture World which shares this shopping strip with a couple of other tenants. It has been there since at least 2008 and I assume a lot longer than that. There appears to be a motor box below the globe, indicating that it revolved originally. [map] |
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North Carolina:
Daily Planet (Raleigh) [map] |
| Daily News Globe New York, NY |
JVC Globe [gone] New York, NY |
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The revolving Daily News Globe was installed in the lobby of the Daily News Building when it was built in 1929. The globe is about 12 feet in diameter. The newspaper moved to a different location in the mid-1990s but this globe and weather instruments still remain.
This JVC Globe was located in Times Square. It had been there since 1999. The JVC letters which circled the globe were replaced with an LED screen in 2008. The globe was 18 feet in diameter. It was removed in 2014. For more, see this website. |
| Globe New York, NY |
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| The Globe in New York is installed in front of the Trump International Hotel & Tower. This steel globe was built by Kim Brandell in 1996. It was inspired by the Unisphere in Queens described above. There is another one of these globes at the Trump International in Sunny Isles Beach, FL. [map] |
| Unisphere Queens, NY |
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| Leisure World Seal Beach, CA |
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| Leisure World Silver Spring, MD |
Leisure World Mesa, AZ |
Globe Bethany, OK |
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The Unisphere was built by U.S. Steel in 1960 as plans for the 1964-1965 World's Fair were commencing. It is 140 feet tall and made of stainless steel. The Unisphere is the largest representation of the earth ever made. The three rings which circle the globe represent the orbits of the first American astronaut, the first Russian cosmonaut, and the first communications satellite. The Unisphere is surrounded by a giant pool with fountains. On the same grounds, at the 1939 World's Fair, was the Perisphere which was a stylized white globe. It contained exhibits including "Democracity," a diorama of a futuristic city. For more, see this website. [map]
The Leisure World chain of retirement communities produced these globes in the 1960s. They were inspired by the Unisphere. The steel and fiberglass globes are 32 feet tall and weigh about 4,000 pounds. They were designed by QRS Neon. The first location opened in Seal Beach in 1962. The globe was installed then. The fountain was turned off sometime between 2000 and 2004. The globe stopped revolving around 2011. In 2015, there were plans to restore it and paint it a bronze color. However, when the paint was stripped, the globe partially collapsed and it was deemed beyond repair. It remained under a tarp for over a year. In late 2016, the new bronze-colored globe was on display. [map] The Leisure World globe in Silver Spring still revolves and is nicely maintained. I believe this location opened in 1966. By 2022, the globe had been painted bright green. [map] The Leisure World in Mesa was built in 1973. The globe still has the water feature. [map] The Leisure World in Laguna Hills, CA was the second location. The globe was moved from Laguna Hills to Laguna Woods in 2002. In 2007, the globe was demolished in 2007 after a lawsuit. The renamed Laguna Woods Village could no longer use the globe which was trademarked by Leisure World. For more, see this website. There was a third location built in 1964 in Walnut Creek, CA. By the late 1980s, a couple of continents had fallen off the globe. It was dismantled in 1994 and eventually sold to Waterworld in Concord, CA. However, it was never used at the park. There was another Leisure World location in Monroe Township, NJ. I don't know if that one had a globe. The Globe in Bethany is located in front of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church office complex. Although this globe looks identical to the ones used by Leisure World, as far as I know, there were never any locations in Oklahoma. According to the IPHC, this globe was built in the early 1970s when the church moved here from Georgia. The globe was a symbol of their ministry's growth to 40 states and 90 countries. Perhaps this globe was produced by the same manufacturer that made them for Leisure World. [map] |
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