Great find from Dave Wilkie at the always fun Where's My Jetpack about the building featured on the cover of Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album (I never knew it was a real location, on Rivington Street in New York City). He likens it to London's Abbey Road, where hardly an hour goes by that somebody isn't snapping a picture with the iconic streetscape and crossing paint.
Or, like Rippe Keane Marketing did for a recent agency promotion, use the concept as an instantly identifiable (at least with boomers) image. As I shot the photo (click here for the shot, sweetened by our friends at JAM Graphics and featuring The 44ths Scott Rippe as Paul) perched upon a ladder in the midst of fairly heavy traffic, it was hilarious to watch the boomers drive by, laughing and giving us the thumbs up while millennials generally flipped us off for slowing their commute, not getting the joke.
Which reminds me of the statue in Winslow Arizona of our hero standing on the corner as the girl in the flatbed Ford turns and looks at him. A photo opp everytime. As is the often overlooked marker on the roof of Madison's Monona Terrace that commemorates the great Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in the lake that shares the Center's name.
If you're a destination marketer, don't miss the opportunity to point visitors to musically significant locations in your community. 'Cause we all like to have our picture taken at those locales.
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