Here are a few photographs taken during a walk about Perth, during a nice fall day while I was home for the Thanksgiving/Illuminati festival. I decided to do sort of a sign theme. Perth has a lot of signs.
If only there were some applicable song by some variety of Five Man Electrical Band that I could ironically refer to at his point. Ah well…
This first sign is a frisbee-throw from my mom’s house, the starting point of this photographic ramble. It’s bolted to one of the corners of my old high-school. The sign is most notable in that it was the only bilingual one I came across.
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Here’s a sign on a door leading into the local Canadian Legion hall. Please note, the concept of “No” Parking is a heavy duty one and should only be undertaken at the user’s risk.
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Running along side of the Legion building are a series of “Park Here and Your Car Will Likely be Crushed by Falling Ice” type of signs. They were all nicely hand-painted, blue on yellow, but the arrangement of this one - along with the various air-vents, drips and things – it was too nifty to pass by.
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This is the very spot that the Legion President moors his white, 1979 Lincoln.
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This is the place on Drummond street where my friends and I used to while away the summer hours, swimming in the basin and jumping from the bridge. If you timed it just right, you could splash the cars.
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Something about the untended nature of this sign suggests that the maker might not mind if you parked here for just a little while.
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Nice dash of colour, with a sort of symmetry to it. Found a few feet from the previous sign.
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Sign on wall of an alleyway that use to lead to the back door of my grandfather’s drugstore. I wonder if it’s there just to discourage people from parking in that particular spot.
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The alleyway into the back of what used to be my granddad’s drugstore, from another angle. The wall has looked exactly like this for as long as I can remember.
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In this shot, I’m sorta standing in a dumpster. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.) Anyway, I am glad that people are suitably forewarned not to park in the spot occupied by the dumpster.
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It is illegal to skateboard in Perth. There are quite a few signs about town to help you remember this interesting piece of trivia. This handy reminder hangs by an area where my friends and I used to gleam the cube, back in the day.
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The greenish channel beyond the concrete pier is the Tay River. The sign here is attached to the facility formally known as the Perth Public Pool. As you might guess, my friends and I spent many a summer’s day cooling off in these lazy waters.
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Dang! no trespassing.
Maybe not laugh out loud funny, but maybe smile funny?
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This is what the previous sign was trying to say. This shot is from further along the Unstable Wall. Our public school teachers used to take us on walks here to teach us about erosion.
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I wonder if this is how all this guy’s mail is addressed?
John G. Haggart, a local MP from about 175 years ago, used to live here. Much of the Rideau canal is referred to as “Haggart’s Ditch” in recognition of his efforts in securing the funds for such a large engineering project.
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This is a courteous little lawn sign put up by some kind of condo committee. It advises the riff-raff that they might want to stop using this street.
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Another high-contrast reminder that this condo complex would rather I go away.
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Cutting through the old lumber mill. Another beautiful hand-painted sign. I’m going to have to go back and shoot some more of this one.
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James Bros. doesn’t exist anymore, but this bit of Taoist poetry still hangs over their former parking lot. The meaning of “Only while Shopping” still eludes me.
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Not only is this building alarmed, it’s monitored. Perth Bell building (Do all bell buildings have that combo-doorknob-lock thing?). This shot shows almost all of the things that I find pretty about ugly.
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Again, maybe not smile funny – but maybe thinking-about-smiling funny? I like how the area directly below the drain-spout has been blackened by the water’s passage.
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A private drive photo notable only in that the guy just off to the right of the camera thought that I had walked up and snapped his picture. He was in his fifties and seemed ready to punch me.
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Nice fall colours here. I wonder if the person who routinely scrapes their vehicle across this sign is doing it ironically or something.
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Tilting house, private drive.
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The suggestion here is that this is not a place to park, I think.
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Here’s a No Trespassing sign that you really have to sort of climb up under one of the legs of the water tower to see. (Tower seen in distance of previous photo).
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This is the entrance to the Perth Medical Centre. Me mum used to work there.
