I Don't See No Palm Trees

I didn't know we had a Florida Street until I shot this. The location is very near where last Thursday's Arch photo was taken, a couple of km north of the monument. We have lots of streets named for states but I thought they were all on the South Side. My daughter and son in law live on Nebraska Avenue down that way. In any event, this Florida Street had no orange  groves or Disney magic. It was actually rather desolate.

That's the swanky Four Seasons Hotel in the background, next to the Lumiere Place casino. St. Louis has a shocking number of casinos. Well, a fool and his money...

Hazard

I've mentioned that our town has a bunch of casino-hotels. The newest and most opulent is Lumiere Place. It's got a Four Seasons hotel in it. It's got a couple of preposterously expensive restaurants and some downscale ones for the masses. We ate at their pan-Asian restaurant for our annual Stupid Bowl dinner out his year. (creatively named Asia) Won't be returning. Oh, and the architecture is ugly. There will be a photo of that some time.

Their newest feature is a giant video advertising sign, the kind you see at American sports stadiums or along the Las Vegas Strip. It's smack on the main highway that runs from downtown to the airport and on to Kansay City, really in your face. This picture has stirred some controversy: an attractive young lady in a hotel bedroom, holding up a slinky negligee. The shopping bag on the bed is from L'ove [sic], the casino's, um, kinky boutique. (But as Tina Turner says, what's love for to do with it? BTW, Tina spent her adolescence here in STL.). See picture below. The display is said to be causing traffic problems on the highway.

I love the weird color effect of photos of the sign. The image is clear to the human eye but the colors are crazy and distorted in the click of a camera shutter. If anyone knows the technical reason for this, please tell us.

TOMORROW: special effects