Libby's Water Tower

Now in a courtyard of an office campus that replaced the factory, the water tower has a walk way and benches around it. Going both the week and the weekend was not busy and was come and relaxing thanks to some neighboring birds as well.

Calm place to spend time. While the tank is not visible from the road, it is right adjacent to the Fire station. Caution: at times you would see dogs without leash.

Went there because of the history of the old cannery there. Good thing they left the old water tower. Kinda surreal to see tech firms surrounding low tech cannery water tower celebrating 'fancy fruits.'. Worth the visit to take in the history and the reminder that the valley here was not always about tech.

It has lot of history to it. The tower is a sugary-sweet reminder of Libby’s, which in the early 1920s was the city’s largest employer in Sunnyvale. This iconic 150,000-gallon water tower has been selected as one of the top 12 finalists for the 2017 Tank of the Year competition sponsored by Tnemec Company. It's great work from the city to keep this historic heritage intact and painting it like Libby’s fruit cocktail can from 1930s. Definitely grab a picture and hang around if you're close-by. It's proudly located inside corporate campus of Walmart & Ratheon. Good location for meet-ups, walks as there are trails built around.

It's a nice landmark. Kinda cute consider modern offices around.

Great place to walk and have a picnic

Interesting place, worth to go!

This drink can a fruit/water tower it's on Atlas obscura. Which is why I took a detour to find this. Super cool if we're into giant fake things of other things. Disclaimer there is no giant fruit inside.

This giant fruit cocktail can is certainly unique, and a little weird to have in the middle of a business park. But hey, that's what replaced the former site of the factory that was once the world's largest cannery... can't change history. There are lovely trees and vegetation and some grass surrounding the water tower, as well as several benches and picnic tables around the border of the monument and along random pathways between the office buildings. Google maps leads you to a small parking lot right in from of Libby's Water Tower, but there are several larger parking lots around the entire business park. Signs say the parking is restricted, but the lots are so large and so empty, with just a handful of cars altogether (at least after 7pm on a weekday), that I don't think it's a problem to park here. Besides, it only takes like 10 minutes to check the place out (too quick to get towed), and if you choose to have lunch here, probably an hour at most. There's also free unrestricted parking on California Ave. I went for a run in the area, taking laps around the business park, and found a good number of couples, individuals, and families taking laps as well... jogging, skating, going for a stroll, walking their dogs, some just making use of the wide open space in the lots. I saw families with the parents on skates and skateboards and their kids on little toddler bikes (even though there's a sign that says skateboarding is prohibited)... So apparently, this business park is really used as a "park"!!?! Though there's nothing too fancy or exciting about this historical landmark, the area is clean and inviting and not run down. It's peaceful and not crowded. It's certainly something out of the ordinary to see and learn about. Most of all, it made me hungry for sliced peaches! :D

Sing it with me!! This is Libby's, Libby's, Libby's I the label, label, label you will like it, like it, like it on the Tower,Tower,Tower! The original tower supplied water to the Cannery, it was replaced in 1965 by this present structure. Around the structure are benches and a couple tables as well as a lawn to sit on and have a picnic there is also beautiful "and I mean beautiful" landscaping all around it. Wifey and I visited on a Saturday and it was so peaceful here as there was nobody else around.