false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179202230m/889295.jpg 889295 1 Early in the 20th century, as Americans climbed into their Model-Ts and took to the open road, American manufacturers and retailers discovered miles and miles of new advertising space, and the audaciously oversized billboard was born. For a century, billboards have recruited, congratulated, teased, sold, and seduced us, promoting everything under the sun, from hosiery to war bonds, presidential candidates to rock shows. GREAT AMERICAN BILLBOARDS not only offers a lively look back at changing styles, products, and tastes, but is also an important visual record of this largely unheralded yet ubiquitous American art form. 874544 15 12 2006 Great American Billboards: 100 Years of History by the Side of the Road total:3|4:1|3:2| 3 10 5 3 3 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 14:57:06 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 15:02:50 -0700 2009
Other interesting billboards:

Girl in sexified Navy uniform saying, "Gee!! I wish I were a MAN. I'd join the Navy." from 1917.

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