It was chipping badly, I wish they had just re-painted it with newer cuter versions!

This is impressive!!

I wish I would have taken more and better pictures. When the bottling plant closed, the next owner of the building painted over it. That was something like seven years ago.

AWWW!! I can't believe it!! That's was a great artwork!! Thanks for take thake picture!!

nice^^

It's fun but a little disturbing too: they have human feet with toes
instead of bear feet with paw-pads.

The NYC store apparently closed too.
No more places to buy the toys, plush, clothing and such :-/

This wasn't a store that you could buy things from - no plush, no toys. It was the main bottling plant for the area, and only sold their drinks to large businesses. I got a tour of the plant when I started college. The market for glass bottled drinks all but vanished, when everyone switched to plastic, even though glass was far easier to re-use, and better for the environment.