http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/stop-sign-stickers/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/stop-sign-stickers/comment-page-1/#comment-232617 Sorcerer Mickey Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:08:34 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/stop-sign-stickers/#comment-232617 Graffiti went commercial years ago: In the mid-'70s I sold pre-cut stencils reading "VALLEY GO HOME!" to the youthful local rascals in Santa Cruz, CA whose hand-sprayed graffiti was virtually unreadable. Wherever you looked, all of the anti-tourist sentiment was uniformly branded. Of course, the first miscreant apprehended with a stencil in his hands was blamed for the entire plague of vandalism, but as Margin Gaye said, "Great artists suffer for the people." Graffiti went commercial years ago: In the mid-’70s I sold pre-cut stencils reading “VALLEY GO HOME!” to the youthful local rascals in Santa Cruz, CA whose hand-sprayed graffiti was virtually unreadable. Wherever you looked, all of the anti-tourist sentiment was uniformly branded.
Of course, the first miscreant apprehended with a stencil in his hands was blamed for the entire plague of vandalism, but as Margin Gaye said, “Great artists suffer for the people.”

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