Going out of Business // Sign Graveyard of Texaco, Chevron, Shell, etc...

[norvech]

The owner of a vast storage facility near Fresno, CA is closing his business, as oil companies who stored signage there for decades have curiously decided they no longer need his services, abandoning hundreds of corporate signs: http://tiny.cc/m1pkt

The images are subtle, beautiful, and sublime, speaking to the ubiquitous reach of these corporations. It's interesting/ironic to see such a "graveyard"...particularly when these companies are no strangers to causing death on mass scale through their greed and assaults on the natural environment (Texaco in Ecuador, for example).

[leveymg]

1. Thanks. Noticed the closure of a lot of retain gas locations lately.

The abandoned hulks often sit employ and boarded up in Northern Virginia, with no one showing any interest in redeveloping the locations.

Perhaps, the big energy multinationals are withdrawing from the U.S. market? Shades of things to come.

[norvech]

5. Perhaps the rent was just too damn high??? EOM

[snot]

2. Corporate cure-all: just re-brand?

[nykym]

3. A veritable bonanza

for American Pickers!

[norvech]

4. Veritable!...indeed.

But most of the signs have been turned into mulch, the site owner said. Or repurposed and recycled for their interior parts.

The blog account discusses plans for an art exhibit, so here's to American Pickers!