Advertising Icons

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Coming up next, a small collection of nicely painted advert items from my trip to the Motherland. I really liked the colorful walls everywhere and the clutteriness of text and images to showcase what is to be had inside. It’s better than having to remember what a store sells based on their obscure name ala CVS and Big Lots! Above you see a poor rat picking up his bindlestick to make his departure from some locale visited by Fumigaciones de Oaxaca, lest the thought of death catch up to him.

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Some sort of bike equipped with an advert icon, I think it distributed ice cream.

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Some payasitos at a dulceria in Neza.

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Wait a minute, those look familiar. Caught in a creativity dry-spell, an Internet shop appropriates a popular icon.

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Life size puppet for some drug store. He was dancing and giving everyone the thumbs up, though I could hear him crying inside the costume something about being the loneliest pharmacist in the playground.

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La Rana Feliz, carrying a tray with drinks. Good food here by the way..icon7.jpg

..I got the enfrijoladas, tortillas bathed in a black bean puree, with some eggs on the side. This plate, some bread, and a hot chocolate set me back a whopping $3.50, quite the bargain!

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A traveler (computer) mouse with a bindlestick, but with no death fears like the rat above.  Nice sneakers even.

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In a drunken fit of cannibalism, a taco eats a baby taco. What a savage.

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3 Responses to Advertising Icons

  1. Tracy says:

    I love these photos and your blog is really cool. That is quite a deal you got on lunch! … I love how the paintings on businesses that you can see in some other countries. The United States is so boring in this respect.

  2. Marshall says:

    Bindlestick mouse-man is fresh!

  3. Rolo says:

    you see the craziest shit in Mexico!!!

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