-30-These banners promoting Oriental have been appearing at various strategic locations around town over the past couple of months.
Today a bunch more went up along Broad Street and Hodges Street, the main thoroughfares through town.
Apparently the Tourism Board found a good deal on the banners... I've noticed similar banners in other towns and cities. Must be something of a trend.
The crew was having a great time putting these signs up... the guy actually installing the signs was putting on a one-man show, cracking up the "ground crew" the entire time they were working their way down Hodges.
I think the signs look nice, with an attractive sailboat & gull motif, but I am getting a little worried about the explosion of Oriental's self-promotion signs that have sprouted up all summer long.
The Oriental History Museum has also been erecting "historical markers" around town also.
It's beginning to make me feel like I'm living in some sort of museum, with all the promotional vertical banners and the explanatory placards at every turn, just like the Smithsonian museums. Well, more about that later.
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