Giant Basket Building
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by found
Longaberger Basket Company Headquarters
Newark, Ohio
Aerial Photo c/o gyronation
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Tags: aerial, basket, giant, ohio, photo
Longaberger Basket Company Headquarters
Newark, Ohio
Aerial Photo c/o gyronation
Posted in: Amazing, Images, Pics
Tags: aerial, basket, giant, ohio, photo
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Is that thing for real?!
I’ve wondered since I first read about this building what the company would do if it ever had to be sold. Who else would want to occupy a building that specific?
I pray that it is photoshop, because if resources were really put towards a monstrous basket building, there is no hope.
The Longabarger company MAKES these baskets. They sell them for a pretty penny. I had a supervisor who sold them a few years ago. Very nice baskets, but too rich for MY blood. The building is so unique that I saw it, over my wifes shoulder, with NO CONTEXT and said to her, “That’s the Longabarger basket company.” When a building speaks that loudly, it has accomplished all it was intended to do.
Sooo…I’m guessing that this is Underwater Basket Weaving 102??
Wow… that’s actually kind of impressive. Also, it must be easy to give driving directions to anyone near it.
“Do you see the big basket building? Yeah, it’s shaped like a BASKET! OK… well turn right then.”
hahahahaha! First thing I thought of was Yogi and BooBoo Bear!
Yeah, it’s for real.
The basket handles have a special heating system in them to keep snow and ice from collecting on them and causing problems for the rest of the building.
My aunt sells baskets for the Longaberger Basket Company and it’s really very amazing. She makes very good money selling them and has been for probably close to 20 years if not more.
All the baskets are handmade and have a signature of the person that made it on the bottom. The baskets are collectors items. If you check on ebay you’ll find a lot of them.
The company is family owned and run and the baskets are incredible quality. I have several myself and actually use them frequently.
That’s their corporate office. The factory’s about two miles away. I have a lot of family living around that plant, and it’s bizarre the attraction people have to Longaberger goods. My mum obsesses over picking them up at yard sales on the cheap when people don’t know the value of what they’re selling.