on the road of life
I have been covering a lot of Rt 95 the past few days, down to NC, up to Boston and back and let me just say there are some bizarre billboards out there. First of all, exit 33 in Virginia has billboards for Starbucks. I'm not talking NJ Turnpike mini signs for their pitstops, but full boards for the coffee shop. I'm caught in a state of turmoil over this because at that point of the drive, I could have used a skim latte, but in my heart it seems ridiculous that they have a billboard (but if Cracker Barrel can have one every mile, why not the bucks?)
Another interesting billboard was for Tofutti Cuties. To be honest, I dont remember where I was when I saw this, other than a small town with only 2 gas stations. But glad they are enjoying their tofu.
Finally there was a seemingly pro-America propaganda billboard just outside of the city . . . it was like a multiple test question, only with just the answers . . .
a. Nashville
b. Amityville
c. Margaritaville
d. all of the above
"d" was circled and then in the lower right-hand corner it said "only in America."
weird.
posted by gordian knot @ Friday, March 17, 2006
1 Comments:
I love the fact that you did a blog posting about billboards! Since i am in the business of billboards I could tell you many different stories about the weird things people want to put up on billboards. I have seen that Starbucks billboard you spoke of, and I too thought not only was it weird they had a billboard, but how many starbucks do you see off major highways...weird.
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