BajaNomad - Hostile signs...?

Hostile signs...?

DENNIS - 7-26-2007 at 07:59 AM

So that's what happened to him. Any of you old fartaroos remember Pinky Lee on TV, early fifties maybe?
They changed the spelling in the foto 'cause they ran out of wall.

bajajudy - 7-26-2007 at 08:31 AM

Yoo hoo its me my name is Pinky Lee
I skip and run bring lotsa fun to every he and she

No I dont remember, must have been before my time

elizabeth - 7-26-2007 at 09:34 AM

That's a pretty funny sign!
Was Pinky Lee really bad enough to deserve this? Don't remember...a little before my time!

Just out of curiousity...was this a place that produced/sold ates?

Iflyfish - 7-26-2007 at 09:39 AM

The Pee Wee Herman of his time.

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tripledigitken - 7-26-2007 at 09:40 AM

Don't remember Pinky Lee, but maybe I missed him/her while I was watching Soupy Sales. In reruns of course!

:coolup:

Ken

Russ - 7-26-2007 at 10:31 AM

Heeeres Pinky

Pinky Lee.jpg - 23kB

DENNIS - 7-26-2007 at 10:32 AM

Google will tell you all you want to know about Pinky Lee.
It was 1950. HMMMM...........Seems like yesterday.

DENNIS - 7-26-2007 at 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by lencho
Their principal product is succulent, bacon-wrapped... hot dogs. :biggrin:

--Larry

All is forgiven. They get an "A" in the window and five stars from the critics.
I love those dogs. Just keep'em coming.
Does Jesse have them on his menu? If he doesn't, he should.

toneart - 7-26-2007 at 11:06 AM

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Originally posted by lencho

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Originally posted by elizabeth
That's a pretty funny sign!
Was Pinky Lee really bad enough to deserve this? Don't remember...a little before my time!

Just out of curiousity...was this a place that produced/sold ates?

Are you ready for this...? Their principal product is succulent, bacon-wrapped... hot dogs. :biggrin:

--Larry

Doesn't look like much has been going on in that location since Pinky Lee was popular. The graffiti is a lot neater than usual. Maybe a reflects the Love/Hate relationship. :no:

Larry,
Are you saying that Pinky Li is a brand name that specializes in bacon wrapped hot dogs?

Oso - 7-26-2007 at 05:01 PM

Apparently an approximation of "Hots"

I'm so old I can remember watching Pinky have a heart attack on live (black and white) TV. Saturday mornings were for Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee and those crappy early black and white cartoons. This was when I was 8 and we had our first TV. Before that Saturday mornings were for radio- The Lone Ranger and Big John and Sparky. Big John didn't realize the mic was still on at the end of one show and thousands of kids heard him remark "Well, that oughta hold the little bastards for another week.". :lol:

"If you go down in the woods today, you better not go alone..."

toneart - 7-26-2007 at 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by lencho

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Originally posted by toneart
Doesn't look like much has been going on in that location since Pinky Lee was popular. The graffiti is a lot neater than usual. Maybe a reflects the Love/Hate relationship. :no:

Larry,
Are you saying that Pinky Li is a brand name that specializes in bacon wrapped hot dogs?

1) That's not graffiti, it's the sign on the building (which is being upgraded).

2) "Hates PinkiLi" is the name of the place, which is an overgrown hot dog stand. I doubt the owner understands English.

3) Relax your mind and pronounce "HATES" rapidly 10 times using Spanish phonetics...

I saw that building more than a few times before it finally dawned on me... :lol:

--Larry

Ref.#1: (graffiti) Iknow that! It was a joke.

Also, the "upgrade" part wasn't apparent in the photo.

Indeed, our frame of reference would be the 1950's comic, Pinky Lee. In addition to his childish singing, he would skip around and do a kind of gay dance while lightly clapping his fingers, not unlike Pee Wee Herman. This was innocent, innocuous, early TV entertainment.

Elizabeth got the ates reference.

Good eye, Larry. I love spotting odd signage and Mexico is a treasure trove for that.

Here are a couple of anecdotes in The United States: I was showing a German man around Northern California. While I was driving he asked, "What is zing?" It dawned on me that he was talking about the pedestrian crossing sign "XING"

Comedian, Stephen Wright was describing his experience before a large directory board in a shopping mall. He related in his droll, slow speaking monotone, "So I see this X on the directory that says,You are here. Long pause....... He then turns to the camera with a frightened, paranoid expression and says, "How do they know?"

capt. mike - 7-27-2007 at 06:33 AM

i have access to all 64 Sky King episodes.
yep....Sky and niece Penny. And of course the star, the Songbird.

i am trying to find a similar internet archive source for Roy Rodgers, none yet that's free. We get Gene Autry here weekly on cable tho.

circa mid 50s TV. what a scream to watch now in this day of perverted morals and mores in which we exist.
each episode runs 22 minutes with no interuptions.

Bob H - 7-27-2007 at 07:50 AM

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Originally posted by capt. mike
i have access to all 64 Sky King episodes.
yep....Sky and niece Penny. And of course the star, the Songbird.

I remember this as one of my all time favorite TV programs to watch when I was a kid, growing up in Miami.

http://www.warplanes.com/store/item.asp?department_id=39&...

Bob H

[Edited on 7-27-2007 by Bob H]

....and not so hostile signs

bajamigo - 7-27-2007 at 08:14 AM

3Fish Sign001.jpg - 43kB

DENNIS - 7-27-2007 at 08:19 AM

Jeezo..... Is that sign still up? Three or four years now, maybe more.
For those who can't readily see it, there's an extra "N" there. I drove by it fifty times before it dawned on me.

bajamigo - 7-27-2007 at 08:26 AM

Dennis, sadly the sign is now gone. As any grammarian worth his E.B. White knows, however, the sign is has a certain grammatical elegance, i.e., the past tense of "fry" being "fry-ened." So he couldn't spell.

Oso - 7-27-2007 at 06:28 PM

Have yet to experience the "Hates". Do they split them lengthwise before cooking (as my wife always does)?

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it does seem to be a more efficient means of cooking them through thoroughly and quicker. On the other hand, it seems to take away something of the integrity of the dog. I would particularly not want to split a "Ballpark" brand dog which is supposed to "plump up" upon cooking.

On a related note, a curiosity about Hebrew National all-beef franks was cleared up by Dave. They advertise that their dogs are made only from the front half of the cow (eliminating both Carl's Jr. and Crap-in-the-Box's Sirloin vs. Angus arguments)

This, it seems, is true. Because the sciatic nerve (oy can I tell you about that one.) and blood vessels near it are not kosher. So, rather than go to all the bother related to removing same in a kosher manner, they just sell the ass-end to goyim butchers.

This is intriguing to one who grew up on Carolina Red Hots, composed of pork lips, beef rectums and assorted roadkill.

DENNIS - 7-27-2007 at 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Oso
Have yet to experience the "Hates".

Give'm a try but, at this point I have to give caution. You have way too much knowledge about Dogs. Ground up noses and lips indeed. I don't know how you can ever get around this intimacy.

juanroberts - 11-29-2007 at 08:33 PM

Reminds me of the sign in San Felipe about 16 years ago that said "Labado ha Bapor" and next to it "tacos de fich". Being a Baja native, I just ignore them. However, a college buddy from TJ who apparently never went South repeated those phrases, over-pronounciation galore, for the whole of Easter week.

Bob H - 11-29-2007 at 11:17 PM

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Originally posted by juanroberts
Reminds me of the sign in San Felipe about 16 years ago that said "Labado ha Bapor" and next to it "tacos de fich". Being a Baja native, I just ignore them. However, a college buddy from TJ who apparently never went South repeated those phrases, over-pronounciation galore, for the whole of Easter week.

What do these phrases translate to?
Bob H