THE
COKE MAN
Ste-Anne-de-Sabrevois, Quebec, Canada
Photographed by Geneviève
Lauzière of Cowansville, Quebec
Geneviève Lauzière
reports:
Since the 1950s the Coke Man stood
in front of a Montreal pastry shop. A few years ago,
the owner of Le Géant Antique, a retail shop
that sells antiques and reproductions of antiques, decided
to buy the giant statue and use it as an advertisement
in front of his store and restaurant in St-Anne-de-Sabrevois,
a small town along the Richelieu river. I had a chat
with him, and he said that he is thinking about repainting
it and putting the name of his store on the statue instead
of "Coke." The statue is nearly thirty feet
tall.
