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Hot Dog, Egg Roll, Pretzel, Pizza: Washington DC 2007

The hand-painted signage on the food trucks around the Washington Monument in Washington DC are culture clash of stylistic non-sequiturs. They advertise food from the USA, Asia, Germany and Italy with lettering that combines elements of Roman and Indonesian alphabets.

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Sausage Hero: Coney Island 1996

If I had known these signs on the Coney Island Boardwalk where going to disappear I would have taken better photos. I snapped this with a disposable film camera on a dreary winter morning in 1996. I was looking for … Continue reading

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