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ROYAL GORGE BRIDGE, Canon City, Colorado - 1950s Vintage Automobile Bumper Sign
Description: Here's an interesting piece of historical memorabilia from the Royal Gorge Bridge, located near Canon City, Colorado. It's an old automobile bumper sign advertising the "World's Highest Bridge".
This sign comes from the days before bumper stickers became common, when tourist attraction operators used to send someone out into the parking lot to wire these cardboard signs to the bumpers of the cars belonging to the tourists who were then busily enjoying the attraction. The hope, of course, was that the cars' owners wouldn't mind leaving the signs in place as they drove down the road to their next destination, thereby providing relatively inexpensive advertising for the attraction they had recently visited. Some did and some didn't!
This particular sign was printed on a very thin card stock, rather than the heavier cardboard that many of them used.
Size: approx. 4.05" X 24"
Date: Not dated, but I'm quite sure it's from the late 1950s.
Condition: Poor, I'd say. It appears likely that this sign spent several days on a bumper before it was removed. It then was taped and tacked to a wall for a while. It has brownish tape residue appearing across all 4 corners and there are also six noticeable tack holes, two near each edge and two in the middle. The sign is rather dirty and stained, probably from its days on the bumper, and there are creases in several places.
This bumper sign has spent the last several decades loosely rolled up in a box, so it doesn't currently lay flat without some assistance (see first two photos) and will reassume that loosely rolled position when released (see last photo). . However, because it's on a thin card stock, it can probably be flattened again without a great deal of difficulty. I'll leave that up to the buyer, though.
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This sign comes from the days before bumper stickers became common, when tourist attraction operators used to send someone out into the parking lot to wire these cardboard signs to the bumpers of the cars belonging to the tourists who were then busily enjoying the attraction. The hope, of course, was that the cars' owners wouldn't mind leaving the signs in place as they drove down the road to their next destination, thereby providing relatively inexpensive advertising for the attraction they had recently visited. Some did and some didn't!
This particular sign was printed on a very thin card stock, rather than the heavier cardboard that many of them used.
Size: approx. 4.05" X 24"
Date: Not dated, but I'm quite sure it's from the late 1950s.
Condition: Poor, I'd say. It appears likely that this sign spent several days on a bumper before it was removed. It then was taped and tacked to a wall for a while. It has brownish tape residue appearing across all 4 corners and there are also six noticeable tack holes, two near each edge and two in the middle. The sign is rather dirty and stained, probably from its days on the bumper, and there are creases in several places.
This bumper sign has spent the last several decades loosely rolled up in a box, so it doesn't currently lay flat without some assistance (see first two photos) and will reassume that loosely rolled position when released (see last photo). . However, because it's on a thin card stock, it can probably be flattened again without a great deal of difficulty. I'll leave that up to the buyer, though.
**NOTE**: Shipping charges are discounted when more than one of my items are purchased at the same time. See what else I have to offer!