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Check out the other entries included in the August 27th edition of Tickled Elbows.
My pet story about this pair is that management decided to show a peon just how easy it is to make a sign correctly. As is the case with the other two signs I have put up so far, there are just so many problems. In case you are wondering, Spuds is the restaurant attached to the hotel.
For more strangely addicting signage issues, check out Signs Gone Wrong.
This picture shows the bottom half of a sign on the Chicago Architectural Foundation’s river tour ticketing booth. I wonder how many people saw proofs of this all through the creation process and decided to let it go through.
I love that, at first glance, the random capitalization actually makes the message about cell phones read contrary to what it really wants to say.
This post has been accepted into the Photo Edition of the Carnival of Travelers.
On a recent trip to Salt Lake City, I took this photo of a sign on the west doors of the newly redone Salt Lake City capitol building. The building had base stabilizers placed under it to prevent earthquake damage so everyone had to move out.
When I visited, government hadn’t moved back in yet. Workers were still painting, hammering, and doing the touch-ups.
I stood for several moments in front of this sign. Even now, I wonder what the sign-maker means by the end of his/her message.