Nearly five months after its groundbreaking ceremony, Pops — an unusual gas station that will lure tourists with a 66-foot-tall soda bottle lit with LEDs out front, a collection of 12,000 soda bottles inside, and an elaborate, futuristic canopy cantilevered over the gas pumps — is beginning to rise from the red Oklahoma dirt in a field near Arcadia.
I popped these shots of the building’s skeleton last Saturday evening.
The gas station, which will also include a soda fountain (of course!) and a grill, is scheduled to open next year. We’ll post occasional updates on its progress as we get them.