Signs in San Francisco(3)

This will be the concept of American-style Chindon-ya. This is advertisement of a mattress shop. Besides this, It is quite common to attract and invite people to a rental apartment or new housing estate models by standing at a turn from a main road. It’s a human generated advertising sign. When you work, why don’t you enjoying it. They listen to favorite music with headphones, dance, move their bodies actively, and try to draw attention from passersby. It seems to be pretty good exercise.

Owner of the house in a quiet street lined with single-family housing puts up this sign. “Don’t park a car along the red painted curb as it’s illegal.” and “Don’t speed.” are intended. One wonders if the owner puts up this sign on the road in the morning and puts it away at night every day.

It is natural for a dog to have excretion during its pleasant walk. The sign suggests an owner should pick up feces as the owner’s responsibility. By inserting your hand in a plastic bag like a glove, grabbing the dog’s feces, and reversing the bag inside out from the wrist, the feces are put in the bag. People often carry plastic bags when walking a dog. If dog owners are always like that, parks and public roads will be kept clean.

This sign posted on a tennis court fence is of a public high school raising donations. It shows $ 150,000 (more than twenty million yen) out of the $ 250,000 target amount has been raised so far. Increasing progress of raised donations is shown in graph. The graduates who have succeeded in business and those who personally support the school seem to make donations. Some people appear to make fairly big amount of donations. In Japan, the Bellmark program raises educational funding with help from its partners and supporters. In the US, it is direct and its scale is big.

It’s on the wall of a grocery store parking lot not far from Half Moon Bay facing the Pacific Ocean. A large wave breaking over the whole wall and a surfer riding the big wave is painted. It is as if the sea is just there in illusion.

A huge shiny gold tooth is hanging as the sign of a bar called McTeague's Saloon. It seems to come from a novel called McTeague published at the end of the 19th century, in which a dentist had a practice on Palk Street in San Francisco. Among a variety of many signs, it is an eye-catching object.

George Lucas has created large global hit series such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones. At the front of the Lucas film office located in San Francisco, there is a fountain of Jedi master Yoda. You will almost hear his lessons and come to be in a serious contemplation.