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Good Signs and Bad Signs in the Bay Area
The most infamous bad signs in the Bay are the billboards entering SF. But good and bad signs are everywhere — if you know where to look.
There are a lot of signs in the Bay Area. Good ones include the C&H Pure Cane Sugar sign over Crockett; bad ones include that string of anti-abortion billboards in West Oakland that try to tell you how many fingernails a fetus has.
What rubric am I using here? Glad you asked: The best sign in the country is Trenton, New Jersey’s “Trenton makes – the world takes” because it is beautiful, brutal, and passive-aggressive; also because it is most easily viewed from a passing train. This is the standard by which all big signs must be judged.