Best breakfast in town.
When we put Fairbanks into our GPS it deadended here at this community garden shown above in downtown Fairbanks. Our GPS knows us well.
It is an old joke but still made me smile.
This sign above was posted outside a small hotel in a famous mountain climbing town in Alaska.
Lots of these signs above posted outside communities.
These are all symbols and banners of captains of ships that have sailed into this harbor in Skagway(?).
Another garden in another town.
This was in a fancy restaurant "ladies room" in Vancouver. They also had tiny phone screen size TVs on the back of the bathroom doors. You would never miss that goal shot!
This sign is in that town that is so far way even an RNC celebrity could not make it to the convention on the mainland.
This speaks for itself.
Not enough for a Thursday Thirteen...but it is all I've got.
Signs, especially homemade ones can give one a hint of what the local culture is all about. Great photos of this culture! -- barbara
ReplyDeleteLove the glimpse into local culture. Great post!
ReplyDeleteThese were the best travel adventure photos that I have ever seen. Wish we had caught places like that on our cruise. Who would think you photograph signs? Oh yes, you would. Great idea.
ReplyDeleteI love it. It captures something of the experience in a very clever way.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your collection of signs, some more than others. They are all interesting, though. Some of them made me smile. :-)
ReplyDeleteTV phone screens in bathrooms, for real? Heavy petting and spawning are hilarious.
ReplyDeleteTypos and all! Love this.
ReplyDeleteGreat sign collection ha-ha!
ReplyDeleteThanks for these details that would be easy to miss on a trip to this region.
ReplyDeleteNow i really want to get to Alaska!
ReplyDeletePurty good!!!
ReplyDeleteLotsof good stuff, especially the men and salmon one.
ReplyDeletea great collection. exotic foot flush? that's got my mind going.
ReplyDeleteTerrific signs that provide an insight into the community. I'd love to visit a place where a sense of humour is so obvious. Great idea to photograph them, Tabor.
ReplyDeletegeez, you got to see some the underbelly of Alaska, eh? Ms. Palin's home as well as to the rest of her 'Deliverance' style family. Gwennies is but one that have advertised that message, from the time I moved there in'73 to around a decade later, things changed, a lot.
ReplyDeleteHomer is still my favorite place up there, Wasilla, is the low end, low rent area, trying to be yuppified, but resistant to that from some southern gene.
Cheers,
Mike
Those were a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteThose were a lot of fun!
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