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\n ads have reminded people about safety in weirdly direct ways. Even upside down \u201c
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\n \u201d billboards have left a confusing impression.<\/p>\n
In a world of drab advertisements, every so often the cream of the crop rises to the top. LAist 89.3\u2019s AirTalk Billboards for music<\/p>\n Billboard for Beatles Abbey Road record circa 1969 on the Sunset Strip.<\/p>\n Robert Landau, photographer and author of \u201c\u200aWe\u2019re such a car-oriented culture that we take this advertising form of billboards and maybe raise it to an art form,\u201d he told host Austin Cross.<\/p>\n One that he remembers vividly is the Beatles\u2019 Abbey Road billboard in 1969.<\/p>\n He said this period was about rock \u2018n\u2019 roll music. The bands he listened to were depicted on what he called artistic, almost non-commercial billboards on the Sunset Strip.<\/p>\n \u201c[It created] almost a drive through gallery at that time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Tommy Wiseau\u2019s \u201cThe Room\u201d<\/p>\n Sam, a listener from Atwater Villager, called to share one billboard that lives rent free in his mind.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aIf you traveled in Hollywood on Highland, anytime in the early two thousands,\u201d he said, \u201cyou saw the billboard for the Tommy Wiseau movie The Room.\u201d<\/p>\n The billboard was up for years and had little information about what it was actually about. A black-and-white Wiseau stared down passersby next to directions to call a number on the billboard to \u201cRSVP.\u201d (To the movie? A meeting? Who knew.)<\/p>\n It became a sort of local mystery while the movie reached The Angelyne campaigns<\/p>\n Another one L.A. won\u2019t soon forget is model Angelyne\u2019s plethora of billboards that have dotted the skyline for decades. Michael in Studio City said he\u2019s always found the billboard queen entertaining. They\u2019re known for being bright pink and showing Angelyne, usually in a suggestive or sultry pose, alongside just her name.<\/p>\n \u201cI was confused about what necessarily she was going for other than notoriety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\n unpacked<\/a>
\n some of those iconic memories recently. Here\u2019s what listeners shared.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip<\/a>
\n , has spent years documenting these scenes. He says you have to be clever to plant a seed in drivers\u2019 minds in only a few seconds.<\/p>\n
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\n Yes, decades<\/a>
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