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November 9, 2014 by tomdalzell

Giant Guitars

I have confessed that I love big signs.  So of course I would love it if we had a giant guitar sign in Berkeley.  I didn’t think that we did.  But I was wrong.  We have one.

2923 Adeline

2923 Adeline

Here, though, is a collection of photos of giant guitars.  I exclude on elitist grounds photos from franchises of the Hard Rock Cafe.  They often feature giant guitars as signs, but I don’t find Hard Rock Cafe quirky in any way and so rule them out.  Snob!

BatonRouge

BatonRouge

Borden-Carleton, Prince Edwar Island

Borden-Carleton, Prince Edwar Island

Boulder

Boulder

Bristol, TN

Bristol, TN

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Memphis Memphis

Memphis

Memphis

Nashville

Nashville

Nashville

Nashville

Nasvhille 1

Nashville

Nashville

Nashville

Nashville

Ernest_Tubb

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Lakeville, Minnesota

Lakeville, Minnesota

Bristol, TN

Bristol, TN

South Austin

South Austin

La Crosse, Wisconsin

La Crosse, Wisconsin

Madison
Madison

Tamworth, New South Wales

Tamworth, New South Wales

Nasvhille

Nasvhille

My friend is also a big fan of giant signs,and he had a good time with these photos.   In 2012, he went to Burning Man, as he had done for every year since 1986 when it was at Baker Beach, San Francisco.   He had this photo of himself from that 2012 event:

Burning-Man-2012-149I told him that this was a far out photo, although I have a hard time making him out in the photo.  I then asked for his reaction to the 20+ photos I had found of giant guitars.  His reaction:

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