Happy 100th Birthday, Arizona!

[tundramanq]

This is all I have left of this sign on the east end of Winslow that my dad designed and built in the early 50s - the rockwork had a lot of petrified wood in it - wind finally got it around 1980.




The Jackrabbit sign that he designed and built is still standing 60 years later:


A lot of the commerical art on Route 66 in northern Arizona was his, mostly done in the 50s before the good old lead based paint took his health and eventually his life in the early 60s. They just didnt know then. But the indian head paint still looks pretty good for 40 years of sun and sand damage.