Meet the Texas man who loves this N.J. water tower so much, he built a virtual museum in its honor
Dan Becker hasn’t lived in New Jersey since 1984.
But for decades, the Texan has maintained a shrine of sorts to a landmark from back home — the Union Township water tower.
The 212-foot (or 211-foot, depending on who you ask) pale gray baton and bulbous tank has loomed over the Garden State Parkway and Route 22 since 1964, proclaiming “UNION” for all the land to see.
A golfball atop a colossal tee. A leviathan lollipop. A giant eyeball. The “spiritual center of Union.”
Those are just some ways Becker, who lives in Austin, describes the tower. For highway travelers, the name emblazoned across the column’s lofty “watersphere” above Kawameeh Swamp leaves no doubt as to where they are. For Unionites, the waypost serves as a symbol of home.
Becker’s website, The WorldsTallestWaterSphere.com, pays homage to a boast that used to be visible on a billboard at the base of the tower.
read more (NJ Com)
Dan Becker hasn’t lived in New Jersey since 1984.
But for decades, the Texan has maintained a shrine of sorts to a landmark from back home — the Union Township water tower.
The 212-foot (or 211-foot, depending on who you ask) pale gray baton and bulbous tank has loomed over the Garden State Parkway and Route 22 since 1964, proclaiming “UNION” for all the land to see.
A golfball atop a colossal tee. A leviathan lollipop. A giant eyeball. The “spiritual center of Union.”
Those are just some ways Becker, who lives in Austin, describes the tower. For highway travelers, the name emblazoned across the column’s lofty “watersphere” above Kawameeh Swamp leaves no doubt as to where they are. For Unionites, the waypost serves as a symbol of home.
Becker’s website, The WorldsTallestWaterSphere.com, pays homage to a boast that used to be visible on a billboard at the base of the tower.
read more (NJ Com)
