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“If you judge by signs ‘For Sale’ would be winning hands down”
Posted: October 9, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local issues, oddities, opinion/news, politicsTags: bill gunn, dahospilitity guy, economy, fitchburg, john olver, ma-1
Ran into DaHospitality guy yesterday. Haven’t seen much of him as he’s been busy with running the old Dynasty Sable Face to Face baseball league (now in its 23rd year).
He was interested in my wandering Olver story and out of curiosity starting driving around town to check out signs. He said that in West Fitchburg (his stomping ground) you could see quite a few Olver signs. I haven’t been to west Fitchburg in a couple of weeks but I’ll take his word for it.
He then told me after driving the main drags once he hit side roads and left west Fitchburg the Bill Gunn signs: “Totally blew Olver away” (his pun not mine), but there was a more important indicator.
He could not get over how many “For Sale” signs there were everywhere. Beyond the normal buying and selling it seems that more people without jobs are preparing to flee to other parts less expensive parts of the country (Massachusetts will likely lose another district for 2012) or state, or just need to raise funds to survive. As he put it Gunn has much more signage that Olver but “For Sale” dwarfs them both.
It is that bad economy more than any number of Bill Gunn signs that spell trouble for John Olver and every other democrat in this state.
The end of the saga of the wandering Olver sign
Posted: October 4, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local stuff, politics, short films/interviewsTags: 2010 elections, bill gunn, election 2010, fitchburg, john olver, ma-1
First there was the Bill Gunn signs everywhere
Then there was the Olver sign at the closed business on John Fitch Highway that was gone in 48 hours.
48 Hours later it moved to Burger King and was gone the same day.
The Olver sign disappears from Burger King
But at last 48 Hours later it has apparently found a permanent home at Jiffy Lube on 541 John Fitch Highway
I talked to the guys at Jiffy Lube. They said a lady came by and asked permission to put the sign up and they agreed. So the 3rd time is the charm and in a city where Bill Gunn signs abound the John Olver’s sign finally has a home.
Awwwwwwwwww
Of course if it changes I’ll let you know.
Yet another 48 hours The Saga of the traveling Olver Sign continues…
Posted: October 3, 2010 by datechguy in elections, odditiesTags: fitchburg, john fitch highway, john olver, ma-1
Decided to grab something fast on the way to WCRN yesterday so I went up John Fitch Highway and look what I found:
Olver finds a spot on John Fitch Highway!
The saga of Fitchburg’s marvelous traveling Olver sign on John Fitch Highway continues! I was surprised to see it at the Mall near Burger King ,but a closer look made an interesting discovery
Where is the sign? Just over the line!
When I drove by it looked like it was at the Mall but while I was at the “Pay” window I found out the mulch was on the Burger king side. I asked the guy at the window (a shift leader) where the line was (mulch is Burger King up to the curb), and if it was corporate owned or franchise, (franchise), when I pointed out the sign he was surprised, he said the owner would never put out a sign, but he hadn’t noticed it because due to the placement you #1 couldn’t see it from the BK’s entrance and #2 You couldn’t tell what property it was on, this photo shows how close it was to the line.
Is it at the Burger King or the Mall?
That’s as far from the BK sign as you can get.
With all the Bill Gunn signs I’ve seen, (the BK shift leader noted seeing all of them too) if the guy wants to have a sign up on his property he certainly has a right to have one. I again took a little film:
This was about 12:45 p.m. At 7:45 I took my wife to dinner, and on the way home I drove by the location, guess what was missing? Didn’t have the camera with me so I couldn’t film it.
That sign is like Charlie on the MTA, will it ever return?
Stay tuned!
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