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Political lawn signs in Sioux City, Iowa ahead of the 2018 United States elections. Lawn signs (also known as yard signs, bandit signs [1] and placards, [2] among other names) are small advertising signs that can be placed on a street-facing lawn or elsewhere on a property [3] to express the support for an election candidate, or political position, [4] by the property owner (or sometimes to ...
The transit business and the billboard business merged in 2001 under the name Viacom Outdoor. Logo used from 2006–2014 The billboard division was originally two separate companies: National Advertising Company (also known as 3M National or National 3M), the outdoor advertising subsidiary of 3M ; and Gannett Outdoor, owned by the Gannett Company .
Some of the earliest signs were used informally to denote the membership of specific groups. Early Christians used the sign or a cross or the Ichthys (i.e. fish) to denote their religious affiliations, whereas the sign of the sun or the moon would serve the same purpose for pagans. [7] The use of commercial signage has a very ancient history.
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Club Prima Donna animated neon sign in Reno, Nevada, 1955. A highly opaque special black or gray glass paint can be used to "black out" parts of a tube, as between letters of a word. In most mass-produced low-priced signs today, clear glass tubing is coated with translucent paint to produce colored light.
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The frozen housing market shows few signs of thawing as 2025 begins New year, same old real estate market: The high mortgage rates, scarce inventory and dismal affordability that have plagued ...
Al's Auto Supply – Chain that operated in Washington, California, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Alaska; purchased by CSK Auto.Founded by Abe "Al" Wexler in Everett, Washington in the late 1950s; [1] [2] sold 15 store chain to Paccar in 1987; [3] Paccar sold chain (along with Grand Auto) in 1999 to CSK Auto which eventually rebranded stores as Schucks.