The Billboards

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T.J. Eckleburg billboard

 

[LizzieMaine]

 

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[Fading Fast]

Interesting. Wasn't one of the motivators (which I believe was historically accurate) in "The Grapes of Wrath" that the farmers in the state - or the big corporate farms anyway - were advertising all over the dust belt that there were wonderful and plentiful job opportunities in California when, in truth, there weren't, but they wanted a huge supply of unemployed men to pressure wages down?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yep, some were doing that in California, but it was an even more common tactic with agents of Northern industrial companies, who'd send agents down South to try and convince black sharecroppers to move to Detroit or Gary or Toledo or Chicago for jobs in plants there in order to flood those areas with cheap labor that could be used to break strikes.

The thing that's creepiest to me about that billboard above is how beautifully designed it is.

 

[LizzieMaine]

 

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Houses in Atlanta. March 1936 ~ Walker Evans

"In the poster it’s Lombard’s left eye that’s bruised, in the movie it’s her right. Meaningless. Creepy, right?"

 

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Atlanta, 1938

The billboards are actually part of the porches on these two houses, not on a fence ... have turned their front fences into income-producing billboards. (The Gallery, Atlanta, John Vachon, Movies)

 

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[Bugguy]

333 Billboards remain across 3 states, most near I-90.

 

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New York City, 1903

 

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Billboard by Howard Hughes.

This was the original title of the movie
that did not do good in theaters.
Hughes made changes and
the title was changed but to no avail.
Although I did enjoy Hamilton and
Kennedy very much.

 

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Cairo, Illinois

 

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