A sign put up by a local booster organization on an abandoned building near the Mississippi. It is clearly visible from an elevated highway seen at the top. They want you to start a business, make a lot of money, but then DO NOT take it to another city. It's happened. Baby, please don't go.
A sign on an old commercial building, visible from a major highway. The smaller lettering in the middle reads "Start Up - Stand Out - Stay." It's like, hey, be an entrepreneur, do something great, but baby please don't go. I don't think it's motivated anyone.
We do!
Seen in front of the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park, which is more interesting than it sounds. I don't know who the sign is meant for. It doesn't refer to a current exhibit.
Placed directly opposite the exit from the Walmart where you can't possibly miss it. Keep in mind, however, that Kansas just resoundingly defeated a ballot initiative to remove a provision in the state constitution protecting a woman's right to make choices about her own body. But I wouldn't blame the sign-maker for anything. We could have done so much worse.
The suburb where we live, Webster Groves, has a central street with many restaurants. One company has three of them, ranging from expensive fine dining to an upscale coffee shop. There is a storefront with what we think is their private function room and it had this large sign in the window. No idea what it was about but since the family calls my granddaughter Ellie we had to get a shot.
With trash? Probably a lot, one way or the other. Another enigmatic sign from the exhibit in Park-Like.
It's beastly hot and humid here so I haven't been out to shoot any new local material. We'll poke around Kansas a little more, then. Another sign from the Empty Cup Cafe in Marysville, country humor with extra social sensitivity.
Seen in the Empty Cup Cafe in Marysville, Kansas, where the food is good and varied. Good behavior, however, is expected of all, or else.
No man is an island,Not that this isn't true every day of our lives but most of the time we conveniently overlook it. Now the idea slaps us in the face. Wear that mask, dammit. Do your bit to keep me alive.
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
