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Posted by: David Gest
Thanks to: David Gest
11 January 2005 - 6:00am

From muffler men to giant chickens, Indiana's landscape is full of gargantuan signage.

"Since 1998, [Steph] Mineart has traveled across Indianapolis and the rest of the state snapping photos of any big, unusual advertising she can find: a giant chicken outside an antique store in Noblesville; towering bowling pins advertising bowling alleys across Indianapolis; oversized gardening spades promoting two local gardening centers...Mineart has captured them all on her Web site, www.commonplacebook.com." The highlight? A giant, naked leg, which doubles as a sundial in a nudist colony.

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Source: Nuvo, January 5, 2005
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