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Stanley Marsh's "Dynamite Museum" in Amarillo, Texas

May, 2004, Kathy Weiser

Funded by eccentric Amarillo millionaire, Stanley Marsh, the "Dynamite Museum" plasters "art" signs all over the city. Throughout the city, more than  200 signs can be seen displayed at Amarillo homes and businesses. Looking very much like colorful municipal signs, they don't dispense traffic or parking rules, instead they offer a variety of offbeat slogans. One reads "Strong drink." "What is a village without village idiots?" asks another. There are dinosaur and ostrich "x-ings," signs that read "Road Does Not End." There was a sketch of Mona Lisa with the words: "Men have loved her." On Monroe Street, a Marilyn Monroe sign.

While the signs are spread out around Amarillo and the surrounding area, Old San Jacinto is the neighborhood where you'll see them in the highest concentration. The ever-enigmatic Marsh explained the signs, saying, "They are to be looked at."

The signs are just there, like the Rock of Gibraltar or the Statue of Liberty. They are a system of unanticipated rewards." Marsh will provide the official-looking diamond-shaped signs to anyone who will put them up on their property.

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