When we went out to South Jersey for Sally’s wedding. We visited with family and friends. Ben was excited to take us to Wegman’s, a very upscale grocery store. If you haven’t been to one you should if given the opportunity. It’s a great grocery and more. Anyway, on the mezzanine were these BIG pieces of silverware.
I was in Northwest Arkansas doing some retail audits when I saw this big bag of potting soil. Naturally I had to get a photo, but no camera with me. Had to buy a disposable camera to get this image.
When Ernie, Jack and I went to visit Minwa, a vendor of ours, in their Hong Kong office overlooking the harbor I spotted this oversize battery charger. Jack snapped this image with his new camera, the one he bought as a closeout at Wal-Mart, not in Hong Kong. Camera prices are not that good there.
On the way to Hong Kong we changed planes in Minneapolis. The layover gave us enough time to go over to the Mall of America. We visited the Bose store in the Mall and found this big remote control. The fellows in the store were good enough to let us take a picture.
It’s almost embarrassing to say this, but Indiana went on Daylight Savings Time last year, at least most of the counties. Some counties go on Central Daylight Time while some stay on Central Standard time ( which as you know is the same as EDT). As a result you have to pay attention to the time in summer now. Boston Market had a promotion on the inaugural Sunday and gave away food. I went to get a photo of this clock.
Sometimes you turn a normal person into a Super Bird Dog. Once again, Mike B spotted this large mailbox flower on the side of the road in front of Mae’s Flowers (get it, I didn’t until about 10 minutes ago. OK, I’m a slow learner.) At any rate this flower deserves a place in the large mailbox collection along with the Big Golf Balls and the Big Fish (usually Large Mouth Bass.)
We were in town for a new store opening near the Wal-Mart home office. I ran into these two very friendly young women and they were kind enough to pose with me for this photo. I also found this inflatable credit card, I wonder if they adjust for “inflation.”
A while ago these Jeans were on the side of a building on Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis. They are not there any longer which just goes to prove that you need to “seize the moment,” “strike when the iron is hot,” “waste not, want not,” or some other such old saying. As long as we are dealing with clothing there also was this pair of shoes on the same building so I could double up with my photos.
Here is the headquarters of Longaberger Baskets. What an enterprise, 7 stories high. I’m standing on Rt. 16 (the Woody English Parkway) just West of Hanover, Ohio and the building is in the background. I don’t know if this really qualifies as a Big thing but it could.
When we were at the Longaberger headquarters they have several Big Things on the grounds. These big ceramic pitchers were outside the gift shop and a short bus trip from the parking lot.
I think this is a classic Big Thing! Bigger than life, serving no useful purpose, and waiting for me to take it’s image. This apple basket is 20 feet tall and filled with fake apples.
On our way back from Maryland we stopped in Dresden Ohio so Deb could do a little shopping. There was a Hot Rod show on Main Street but I didn’t see a ’57 Plymouth which was my first car. This basket was at Main and 7th Street, a symbol for the main employer in town.
Down in Staughton, VA at intersection of US-11 and US-250 is this watering can. I found this myself when looking through the travel section of the Sunday paper. You never know where or when you will find big things.
These pots make up a two-fer along with the watering can above. I didn’t expect to find these pots but they were on the other side of the C&O viaduct. These images were taken October 13, 2001. As you can see, unity in our country is everywhere.
Went down to the protests on Sunday afternoon before the Republican Convention. Probably the last place that I would have imagined a Big Thing. I figured some big promises from the Republicans but not this. A great day in the sun and everything was peaceful.
Wow! Talk about close to home! Here’s a Big Videotape! My company is not anti-Big Things as evidenced by this oversize video tape. Sometimes I wonder how I miss things so close to home.
The Swatch Shop in The Fashion Show Mall, an upscale shopping center, on “The Strip” in Las Vegas. We were on our way to eat lunch at the Dive Shop located right outside the mall. I liked eating there and will probably go back next time I’m sent to Las Vegas. I don’t understand the people that go there willingly.
Pulling out of the Kmart lot and turning right both Ben and I let out a cheer of excitement when we saw this unexpected inflatable infront of the Mattress Warehouse store on Route 33 in Harrisonburg.
Here is a work related Big Thing. We had this built for the Consumer Electronics Show when we introduced our line of surge suppressors. This baby could probably take some big hits.
This is a Big Clay Pot (actually a Big Plastic Pot) that I got on US-322/US-1 near Concordville, PA. Since we took this image I have seen a lot of these big pots around laying on their sides with flowers or some such thing growing out of them. A cornucopia of plants.
