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No offense but them Tennessee boys couldn’t paint a billboard Worth a hoot😉
Looks like a tic tac toe situation in #1
Gotta love early billboard art🤗
Last edited by Hal Gorges; 02-06-2022, 08:30 AM.Floridaboy.
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Hi Greg. Many thanks for bringing this story to our attention. I am particularly appreciative because I went to college and grad school in the eastern Highland Rim area of Middle Tennessee at a school where many caves exist nearby. The Highland Rim geographical area is one of those prime areas where because of the Karst geology/topography in the region is what enables these limestone caves to develop. As a student I "explored" many of the caves in the area. I never saw any prehistoric art or was some of it just grafitti. But there again I wasn't looking for it. For we students it was all about the adventure. One of the caves has or had some historic objects dating back to Civil War days. (or as some of we Rebs call it "The War of Northern Agression" lol). These historic objects were/are the scaffolding and ladders and grafitti made by men who were mining salt peter for making gun powder. The cave is one that is located at an unusually high elevation and is a dry cave. And by dry I mean one that has practically no stalagtites or stalagmites and no water in the cave. These mining works were located at a fairly great distance from the entrance and because it was dry the wooden structures seemed about as strong as they were back then. But I never did get on them to test them out. We just walked on by to go farther back.
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Hi Cecillia. Yes, grafitti has been left by the famous as well as regular folks. One of the most famous in American history is one left by Daniel Boone in Kentucky during the period when he was a long hunter from North Carolina. Years after his death a carving in some tree in Kentucky was found that said something to the effect of "D. Boone killed a bar(sic). Oh and by the way that was Kilroy not Elroy. It was painted on the inside of a fuselage of an airplane by a man who worked at an aircraft factory in the states during WWII where the plane was built. The airmen who saw it started painting it on places where it could be seen and the custom spread throughout the Army and was painted all over England and Europe.
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These minimally great doodles, if not A+ artwork. Looky colors 1st pic, thingy on left (animal?), wavy line (mountains, hills?), man far right. There’s a story there guys, at least in head of creator…. And look rendition 2nd pic, clearly horse(?)
3rd pic horse doodle by Hal. Looky learning curve evolving Humanity!!
Last edited by Cecilia; 02-06-2022, 02:55 PM.Digging in GA, ‘bout a mile from the Savannah River
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