A defunct gas storage tank has been cosplaying as a jack-o'-lantern for 72 years.

Smilin' Jack—yes, they named it—sits at an old Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, California, where it spends eleven months being a completely unremarkable spherical container and one month being the happiest goddamn thing in the fossil fuel industry.

Workers slap industrial-grade orange paint on this three-million-gallon behemoth every October like they're atoning for decades of environmental sins, one carefully rendered tooth at a time. 00:00/01:43 10

Local schools actually organize field trips to stare at painted metal, which says something either very sweet or very depressing about the state of children's entertainment in Wilmington — possibly both. Report This Ad

See also: Pumpkin Gutter

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