Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Dollar General, Gettysburg, PA (PG XVII)





Painted Gentleman 17. The Dollar General Store in Gettysburg. No, the Dollar General is not some low budget officer in the Union Army, it's a discount store with all the prices are even dollars (not the Dollar Store, where everything is one dollar, that's different). And to find this without even looking for it. The biggest surprise is to find a mural on the side of a building in Gettysburg that has nothing to do with the battle. I'm sure you've heard of the battle. This gentleman is a tribute to the Lincoln Highway, U.S. Route 30. It runs more than 3000 miles from Times Square in New York to Lincoln Park in San Fransisco passing through 14 states. I think, a year or two ago, they were painting replica gas pumps to celebrate the Lincoln Highway and that's where this may have come from.

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