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Not the best photo in the first link, but these articles have photos captures the sheer size of the poster a bit better than the one in the original article:
While Berger immediately recognized the discovery would throw a wrench into his plan to quickly connect the Corral Bar & Riverside Grill with the adjacent building to create a banquet facility, he felt a duty to preserve the historical artifact.
Very good of him to do that; I suspect if they hired a contractor or other workers to do it, they wouldn't care less.
That said, I think it'd be even better to digitise it too, given that all copyrights have long expired and it would help to preserve it more.
I know someone who minimally rehabs old shacks on the cheap and flips them to eek out a living.
One of his favorite materials for cheap roof underlayment moisture barriers is disused vinyl billboards.
I wonder if any of them will survive long enough to be a similarly interesting artefact when next replaced. They often get corrugated metal over them, in a dry desert environment I can imagine metal roofing lasting well past 50 years.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2019/05/18/durand-bar-...
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What does this poster look like, I'm thinking shades of for the Benefit of Mr Kite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tw3D3vBxfY
https://www.visitpepincounty.com/1885-artifact-uncovered-at-...
http://www.fox9.com/news/remarkable-piece-of-history-found-w...
edit: Oh neat, this was actually a local story from The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram which the AP picked-up:
https://www.leadertelegram.com/uploaded_photos/ron-berger/im...
https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front-page/circus-artifa...
Very good of him to do that; I suspect if they hired a contractor or other workers to do it, they wouldn't care less.
That said, I think it'd be even better to digitise it too, given that all copyrights have long expired and it would help to preserve it more.
One of his favorite materials for cheap roof underlayment moisture barriers is disused vinyl billboards.
I wonder if any of them will survive long enough to be a similarly interesting artefact when next replaced. They often get corrugated metal over them, in a dry desert environment I can imagine metal roofing lasting well past 50 years.