{"id":37439,"date":"2021-09-19T21:47:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=37439"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:49:45","slug":"signs-of-where-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=37439","title":{"rendered":"Signs of where you are"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father was a good photographer, <\/strong>and when he travelled, he was constantly shooting pictures of the landscape. I, in turn, got in the habit of photographing the signs I saw along the way since many of them represent different communities and values. I started doing this back in the 1970s and 80s. This posting is a representative sampling from that era.<\/p>\n

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The line is catchy,<\/strong> but ‘My shirt for a beer!’ didn’t seem to catch the attention of this housemaid lugging food to work in Paris, circa 1976.<\/p>\n

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‘All for the<\/strong> Country Defending Justice, the Junta, the People, & Armed Forces.’<\/strong> A 1982 billboard in San Salvador, El Salvador, supported the government in its battle against an insurgency led by leftist guerrillas.<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Death to the Ears.’<\/strong> This threatening guerrilla graffiti in San Agustin, El Salvador, was a warning to any would-be government informants. (1982)<\/em><\/p>\n

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San Salvador’s election center<\/strong> with its large Coca Cola ads received military protection after it came under fire one morning in 1982.<\/em><\/p>\n

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‘With the murder of Ana Maria<\/strong>, the Salvadoran revolution will not stop.’ This declaration strung across a rural highway let travelers know they were entering guerrilla-held territory.<\/p>\n

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Paris, 1983.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 1982 guerrillas blocked a Salvadoran highway<\/strong> by felling trees across it. Because the government had previously barred local residents from cutting timber in the area, the locals put up a sarcastic sign of appreciation: ‘Thanks for the firewood, guerrillas, mules and sons of a whore.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Guatemala. T<\/strong>he country’s military strongman<\/strong>, Gen. Lucas Garcia, in 1981 took advantage of his position to have a large sign put up along a new highway, giving him credit for it: ‘Another public work by the government of General Lucas.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"‘I was his home for nine months<\/strong>. Now it’s provided by Clayeux [diapers.]’ A billboard in Paris, 1983.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My father was a good photographer, and when he travelled, he was constantly shooting pictures of the landscape. I, in turn, got in the habit of photographing the signs I saw along the way since many of them represent different communities and values. I started doing this back in the 1970s and 80s. This posting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[822,540,1245,1474],"class_list":["post-37439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-el-salvador","tag-guatemala","tag-paris","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37439"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40706,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37439\/revisions\/40706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}