Started up the 405 and put this up because I liked the lighting and the sea-of-traffic effect. (below)
A few miles up I exited, made a couple of turns and climbed a small hill to put this sign up — a journey written in harrowing suspense-filled detail here.
I tried to imagine happier times to come, grandchildren on my knee. “Were there really U-Turns, Grandpa?” they’d ask… “Were there really dead-end streets?” “Yes,” I’d tell them, “there were U-Turns and dead-ends. There was even one point where I had to cut through a gas-station to make a right…” “Wow…” they’d sigh.
Going up La Cienega I noticed three of my signs up, including this one — plywood placed in an I-beam (look in between the flights of stairs) — took literally two seconds to place: it’s been up for a month now!
Hey, lookit this! Never saw it before! (Formerly Rodeo Road.)
Finally get to the 10 (Santa Monica Freeway.) I knew this’d be up for awhile (small-ish sign in an extremely annoying-to-reach location...) but not THIS long! It’s been up for close to a month now! (165,000 cars per day — minus night.)
This here is what the overpass looks like on the inside — scary huh?!
To get in you have to
1) Park in a mixed Black/Latino neighborhood and
2) climb a wall and
3) walk through bushes where homeless people are sometimes and
4) squeeze through a gap in a fence.
If you’re willing to do it though, you get to have your own billboard over the Santa Monica Freeway!
I replaced the humble little “IMPEACH” w/flag sign with this 8’x 8’ beauty!
I decided to retire the Impeach flag sign to the 4th st. overpass, 4 blocks to the east. The 4th st overpass is open and functional, so signs tend to last anywhere from a few hours to a 3 or 4 days. Fare well brave soldier!
Noticed these a half mile or so down. Not cool guys. Commercial signs are NOT covered by the First Amendment! And that “Got Junk” sign is tiny. If not the law, at least have some freakin’ respect for your audience.
Dropped this little feller off almost as a force of habit. It’s less than 100 feet from parking and you just drop it in the slot between the railing and the fence. Those cars don’t have a prayer of getting to it.
All told I’d say I’d say these signs added an hour, maybe an hour and a half to my drive. Well worth it though: these were the only anti-Trump signs I saw all day!
Cheers!