Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Keesville, New York

Stickers: they're not just for bumpers anymore


Popular Tourist Destinations never seem to yield good pictures for me. But sometimes there's something interesting right nearby, like here, in a parking lot near the overlook at Ausable Chasm in far northeast New York State, just a couple miles from the convenience store in yesterday's post. So I often investigate the surroundings of popular tourist spots to see what I can find around the edges.



Flower Memorial Library, Watertown, New York

Why should Manhattan have a monopoly on Library Lions? I don't think it would do much good to go looking for lions in upstate New York, but if you're looking for absolutely anything that might prove interesting, lions may appear.

2 comments:

Scott Kirkpatrick said...

Museums that give you an entry sticker to wear as evidence of paying admission have the problem of how to keep the used stickers from fouling the entire block around the exit. A popular solution is to provide a sticker statue, covered with past stickers. The statue changes color each day, and eventually the thickness of stickers may exceed that of the statue. In Lucerne, Switzerland, the very interesting Transportation Museum uses an old VW for this purpose. No part of the original VW's surfaces is presently visible.

scott

Scott Kirkpatrick said...

here's the VW I'm referring to, serving its highest and best purpose:

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~kirk/testfiles/RIMG1973.jpg

The roof of the car is now concave, and sometimes there is a waiting line to put your kids on top for their obligatory photo.

scott