Templeton Milk Bottle

A 12-foot milk bottle that once advertised a family dairy beside the road near Templeton was reported in January 2024 to be displayed outside the town's historical museum. According to KSBY, Gregory Rossi built it in 1936 to 1938 to advertise Crescent Dairy; the North SLO County Historical Museums site gives 1936, and Paso Robles Press says only the 1930s. Paso Robles Press describes it as made of chicken wire, stucco and other materials, an advertisement for the Rossi Brothers on Highway 101. The Templeton Guide reported in 2018 that the dairy took its name from its crescent-shaped property.

Accounts of its original position differ. KSBY says it stood where Highway 101 now runs, near Vineyard Drive; the Templeton Guide says it stood next to the farm off El Camino Real just south of Templeton and was moved closer to the farmhouse when Highway 101 opened in the 1960s. KSBY reported that the bottle had to be moved because of the construction of Highway 101, and that the person who bought the property donated it to the museum.