It became even more exciting to see when she moved to Russellville to attend college at Arkansas Tech University and would come home to visit. Melissa Frederick, 52, now lives in eastern Kansas but grew up in Greenwood.įor Frederick, like many others, the silo was one of the markers she was almost home. For locals, the "beer can" has become a symbol for home. While the project cost McMahon $3,000, its legacy in the River Valley has become priceless. Harris created his own scaffolding system to lower and raise himself along the silo after studying books on the topic by cathedral painters, according to the article.
“Earl spent about three weeks planning before he even picked up a brush,” McMahon said in a 1977 interview with the Anheuser-Busch Team Talk magazine. Before that, it had only been touched up over the years. Taylor kept that same standard when the silo was completely stripped and redone in 2018. Taylor said her father had one condition: It had to be perfect. McMahon hired Earl Harris, a local independent painter, to make his vision a reality. "We have been Anheuser-Busch wholesalers for over 75 years," said Susan Taylor, McMahon's daughter and president of Belle Point Beverages. "My dad who bought the farm thought it looked like a beer can."
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The silo sits at about 50 feet tall on Belle Point Ranch in Lavaca, surrounded by grassy fields full of cows, where it has been a talking point and landmark for nearly 50 years.Ī love for the beer his family distributed and a creative eye for marketing inspired David McMahon in 1975 to paint one of the silos on his ranch as a replica of a Budweiser can. Along Arkansas Highway 22, between the small town of Paris and Fort Smith, there is a silo painted to look like the oversized Budweiser can of every domestic beer drinker's dreams.
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