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The Amazing Surrealific Phantasmagoric ROTO-SPHERE!

3/15/2023

 
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By Johnnie America
“In this day of spaceships, flying saucers, and sputniks, a new series of developments have come to the electrical sign and display industry.” So begins the advertising brochure for a truly wild roadside spectacle created by Warren Milks at his Bossier City, Louisiana, sign shop.

“The buying public has had their sign appetite jaded by the numerous electrically lighted signs and displays on the world's busy highways—and the competition for the traveling public's eye is terrific,” Milks‘ promotional brochure explains.


Yup, all the gigantic fantastic flashing neon signs are not enough! Jaded travelers need more eye candy! The jaded roadie wants a close encounter with some spiky alien creation! Warren Milks ventured into the void, to boldly go where no man has gone before. He dreamt it and built it, the psychedelic mind-bending extravagantua—it exists—it lives—stand back and behold the phantasmagoric surrealific ROTO-SPHERE!
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