milk on a hot downtown roof

After 3 days of sun, +30°c and careless time off work, I come to the office on Tuesday morning and got asked about my weekend. I tell my colleague that I finally saw that big bottle of milk. Been here for a year and only made it to the bottle this weekend, shame on me. She looks at me asking, "what milk"? I tell her "the big bottle of milk, right there down town next to the Bell Center". I show her this picture.

She informs me that she lived here 30 something years and didn't know it existed until our conversation. It made me feel less bad about my 1 year delay in my chase of that big white bottle.
The bottle is a water tank for the fire system of the building. The building used to be a a dairy plant under the name "Guaranteed Pure Milk". The owner had this unusual design to a water tank built as a publicity stunt to restore people's faith in milk. This was back in the beginning of 1900 when several cases of food poisoning occurred that later lead to the law of having to pasteurize all milk. This famous or perhaps I should say hidden famous bottle of milk from the 1930 was reborn in 2009 when Héritage Montreal came to its rescue. The dairy had closed down in 1990 leaving the bottle to rust on the roof. I'm very happy there are associations like this in Montreal that understands the beauty of Art Deco. I'm equally happy that my boyfriend was kind enough to join me and kiss me under the bottle.