Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his garish ties and gaudy boots, Douglas T. Snarr, 35, comes on like a big bad billboard. He is, indeed, the founder and president of Snarr Advertising, Inc., which owns 1,600 outdoor signs in 13 Western states. Yet Doug Snarr has also become a one-man lobby to ban billboards from any rural road built with federal financial help...
...First, because the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 commands such a ban-and Snarr stoutly insists that "when a law is enacted, it ought to be implemented." Second, if the law is ever funded, all billboard men who are put out of business by the act will be compensated-to the tune of $3 million in Snarr's case. A fervent capitalist, Snarr would like to start again, maybe in restaurants...
...fact is that Lady Bird Johnson's famous highway-beautification program has become a parody of its original intentions. For one thing, the Federal Highway Administration has done virtually nothing to implement it. Because the law forbids rural-highway signs, many banks have also quit financing small billboard companies. Without cash for maintenance, a lot of billboards have been allowed to rot on the roadsides-becoming uglier than ever. Big billboard companies-still collecting rent on their legal signs in urban and commercial areas -are buying billboard locations cheap and building new signs, betting that the Government will...
...wrestled and wrestled with what I should do," continues Snarr. "I finally realized that highway beautification was a fundamental responsibility of every citizen." He moved to persuade other billboard companies in Utah not to fight the act, then helped to get a state compliance law passed. Now he is trying to move the whole country...
FIRST it seemed all Brillo boxes, hoked-up cartoon strips, billboard fragments-and met mostly loud guffaws. But after less than a decade Pop art has not only come of age; it has -such is the accelerated pulse of art movements today-almost become venerable. As a sure sign of esteem, New York's Guggenheim is now holding a retrospective of the comic-strip-inspired works of Roy Lichtenstein, and the saggy, baggy sculptures of Claes Oldenburg are on display at the Museum of Modern Art. The Whitney Museum, not to be outdone, will exhibit another major Pop artist...