A Water Tower Memorializes an Iconic Story in Children's Literature and Popular Culture

A Kansas community honors its Wizard of Oz connections with a newly finished water tower that portrays the wizard’s balloon.

A Water Tower Memorializes an Iconic Story in Children's Literature and Popular Culture

West Palm Beach, Florida

“Come, Dorothy!” cried the Wizard. “Hurry up, or the balloon will fly away.”

That memorable line, one of many from the venerable story The Wizard of Oz, typifies the theme of the elevated water tank in the City of Wamego, Kansas, winner of the Tnemec’s 2019 Tank of the...

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