Billboards. Some places, believing
billboards to be, at
worst, eye pollution, ban them. Some places ban billboards because
of the belief billboards provide a dangerous distraction to drivers in
full need of paying complete attention to traffic. Texas is not one of
those places which ban billboards. Quite the contrary. Billboards in
Texas are very colorful, you can read messages from God, invitations to
Gentlemen's Clubs, offers for hair removal, vasectomy reversal, nude
shopping opportunities and many other opportunities. The Eyes on Texas
will be cataloguing these billboards for your viewing pleasure....
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Billboards
| Texas Tacky | Texarcana
| Adam & Eve | Wild
Wild Rust
| Mineral Wells State Park
Baker
Hotel | Dinosaur
Valley State Park | Fossil
Rim Wildlife Center
| Capitals of Texas | Archer
City
50's Freeway | Lake
Grapevine | Grapevine
Longhorns | American Idol | Garden
of Angels
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A convenient ad for schizophrenics. It is not
known if a drive-thru service is also offered...
(thanks to Perky C
for spotting the above billboard and sending it)
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From: Dotson, Brent - OSHA
Subject: billboards
Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia does not have anything AT ALL to do with multiple personalities. While the term schizophrenia does mean split mind; it is a mind split from reality, not a mind split from itself.
Multiple Personality Disorder is actually a form of Paranoid Hysteria.
Note from
Eyes: We got the above email and guessed it was in reference
to the above billboard, however the sender did not specifically
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Having never seen this sort of service offered
on a billboard before, anywhere, this billboard was an eyecatcher,
located on I-121 in Haltom City, one of the D/FW Metroplexes
mid-cities. The associated
website, mentioned on the billboard, informed, among other
pieces of information, that... "We serve all cities in
the area bordered by Austin, Huntsville, Wichita Falls
& Abilene, Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Texarkana, Arkansas; &
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma..."
The above billboard is sadly related to
another
location a few miles to the east....
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Skinnydipping in a pool is one thing.
But the same
behavior in a store just does not seem right. |
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Perhaps when you are done shopping in the
nude the place to go may be Shreveport and Bossier City where apparently
Louisiana casinos have a different type slot machine than those available
in Nevada. This billboard is visible on I-20, south of Dallas. It
likely won't be visible for long.
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Driving at I-30 freeway speeds, it was not easy to
ascertain what this was suggesting. Speed blurred what looks to be a
poodle into what seemed possibly an example of Texas Big Hair. Which
actually would make a more effective ad for the Fort
Worth Zoo.
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The D/FW Metroplex has the world's
highest per capita number of strippers, thousands of them. And the
world's highest per capita number of what are called, in Texas Speak,
"Gentlemen's Clubs". These clubs are where the thousands
of strippers work.
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This may be an anti-Bush political sign from the
last election. |
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Along with "Hair Today, Thong
Tomorrow" the above billboard is one of the tackiest viewable in
the D/FW Metroplex.
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In Texas you are close to Central America, so you
see places advertised on billboards which you don't see advertised on
billboards further north.
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No idea what this slogan is supposed to mean, except
that apparently it is intended to cause one to want to drink beer. The
mountain biker being Wild on Texas seems to make sense, except
mountain biking and beer don't mix well.
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Texas Brag? Don't know. Having
seen this new roller coaster it appears that it is possible it
could be the greatest thrill on earth. If roller coasters are what
thrills you.
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More Texas Brag? Don't know.
World's Largest Subway Sign!
This billboard is south
of Dallas on the way to Houston, on
I-45.
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Billboard Input
from one of our Texas Readers |
Your billboard article is great, but Texas has caught up with everywhere else. Hwy 71 runs through scenic western Travis County, a two to three-lane road running through new suburbs. Because there is a line of commercial property along sections of the highway, billboards – some stacked one above the other –densely line the hwy (3 came up just this week). These are high signs that stand on top of the ridgeline the highway follows so they are visible from everywhere. Because they are brightly lit, they stand out as a line of very bright 30ft lights. Everyone in the suburbs gets to see the things. So it’s not funny any more. Scenic Hill country Texas is becoming a commercial clutter and our belief that commercial property rights trumps all other rights threatens to turn Texas into Los Angeles with a sense of countrified humor. No one’s laughing but the folks that sell space on those eye sores.
Scott K.
Spicewood, Texas |
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Billboards
| Texas Tacky | Texarcana
| Adam & Eve | Wild
Wild Rust
| Mineral Wells State Park |
Baker
Hotel
Dinosaur
Valley State Park | Fossil
Rim Wildlife Center
| Capitals of Texas | Archer
City
50's Freeway | Lake
Grapevine | Grapevine
Longhorns | American Idol | Garden
of Angels
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