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Heroic statuary, South of the Border

One of the last and greatest cheesy southern tourist traps: South of the Border on I95.
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rick bolt 03-Mar-2011 17:17
autojim, I've thought about taking photos of the billboards for years but it would be a major undertaking. Hundreds of them. Lots of stopping along I-95. Still on my list of things to think about doing, though.
autojim 28-Feb-2011 18:17
If you have pictures of all the S O B billboards, publish them in a book and I'll buy several copies. They have been making me laugh for decades.
Sassa 11-Sep-2010 00:16
This brings back great family memories of our car rides from the north to visit our grandparents in florida. We looked forward to seeing the signs to sob and always made a stop. Thank you!
taledo 04-May-2010 14:44
I have been visiting South of the Border since I was a kid and love the cheesy look so much that my brothers and I are coming down the end of June for a fun filled weekend!
MAG 26-Feb-2010 01:50
You guys are getting a bit too politicaly correct and serious (lol).

South of the Border is part of the history of I-95 travel into the sunbelt from the northern states. I go down I-95 every year, and it "warms my heart" to see the SOB signs. It reminds me of the simple life we Americans had before it all turned to shit; the family would gas up the car in a northern city and drive south into the sun and warmth. Hotels were cheap, gas was cheap, and people were decent. I remember in the 1970's would stop outside of DC and it would be cold...then it got warmer and warmer...buy the time we hit South Carolina it was 60 F and the sun was out and there were plam trees. We used to stop in GA on the interstate stands and get the peanuts in ...then when we crossed into Florida it felt like we were back in July...we would stop and get oranges, it was 80 F and the sun was blazing.

I hope SOB is around for another 100 years so I can show my son. It's part of I-95 East Coast vintage travel. GREAT PICTURES!
Nicole King 22-Feb-2010 16:46
Excellent photographs of a important and interesting historic landscape in South Carolina. I am glad that someone appreciates the artistry that is South of the Border!
rick bolt 31-Aug-2009 14:44
Tom --

Please pardon the presumption of calling you by your first name, but it seemed right for some reason. Thanks for taking a few moments of your Saturday evening to peruse my photos on PBase of the statuary at South of the Border and your incisive comments. I can't imagine what odd series of google searches and key strokes directed you to my southern backwater of amateur photography, but serendiptiy has its ways. It is a pleasure to know that my picture takin' has the ability to evoke such strong feelings of any type. Far too often my photos (even the occasional good one) simply go unnoticed, to languish as zeros and ones in a hidden corner of an anonymous server somewhere. I'll admit I might have hoped for different adjuctives, but it is special to have taken a defining photograph, even if it's the definition of insipid. A quick google search brought me to some of your rock photography -- good solid stuff by anybody's standards. But then there are so many photos of rock stars wailing. At least Pedro has a few...

Please come around to my pbase galleries whenever you have the time or inclination. All comments are appreciated.

rb
Tom Wylde 29-Aug-2009 21:09
You're serious? THIS is serious?? You've got to be kidding me... this is some of the most intensely inane photo taking (or should I say, 'picture-takin'') I have ever seen...

Look up the word 'insipid', (I know you'll have to anyway), and this photo display, with 'Pedro nose best.'... lmao... will be the definition.
zenmatt 02-Nov-2008 12:15
It warms my heart to think you have paid this much attention to a blight on the face of the South. zm
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