Sam Mays gets his kicks on Rte A140, or perhaps a surface street in London, heading to the Imperial War Museum.
This has been a crazy trip: up to Chicago on Saturday via car – a 12 hour marathon drive – and then back to Lexington on Tuesday night / Wednesday morning to catch a flight to London for another trade show. We’re here til Sunday morning, after which we’ll come back stateside and I’ll go to San Francisco whilst Sam goes back to TRI.
Sam and I are both missing friends back home, and looking forward to seeing them soon after our respective returns, but the more pressing issue at the moment is to find the Imperial War Museum to visit a poster exhibit chock full of propaganda posters from The Great War, the inter-war years, World War II and Vietnam. Posters are split evenly between British, American and others (Russian, German, Spanish from the Franco era).
Two favorites from 1916: “Daddy, What Did You Do During the Great War?” and “Gee, I Wish I Were a Man . . . “ Can’t say the appeal on various levels of humiliation and tease (as well as others using honor or the “see the world” approach) weren’t in full force even in World War I.
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