Read it aloud with me:
Private Parking Lot
LEELAND HOTEL GUEST ONLY
Keep out or Cars will be Pulled In.
The extra stroke at the top of the lowercase "g" in "Parking" is super weird.
What BRAIN WEIRDNESS was it?, that birthed the signpainter's weird conceptual mismatch between a parking lot, which is commonly understood to contain multiple parking spaces for multiple motorists, and the single "hotel guest" to whom the sign is addressed?, and for whom the entire parking lot is apparently reserved (according to the literal words of the sign)?
Moreover, taken literally, "Keep out or Cars will be Pulled In" tells us that multiple cars already in the parking lot — maybe every car! — will be towed if any person enters the parking lot, for any reason. The "keep out" message is too broadly directed — at everybody!, including hotel guests. Our signpainter seemed not to know how to express the idea that the punishment for unauthorized parking is that the unauthorized car, and only the unauthorized car, will be towed.
There is a cartoon picture of a banjo-playing horse with flowers in its mane.
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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, at the Hotel Leeland, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Danville Historic District (93000830 on the National Register of Historic Places), on the west side of South Floyd Street, south of Main Street.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Danville (7014729)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• beige (color) (300266234)
• black (color) (300130920)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brick red (color) (300311462)
• hand-painted (300248263)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• italic (typefaces) (300194460)
• parking lots (300007826)
• repainting (300260743)
• rust (300213355)
• signs (declatory or advertising artifacts) (300123013)
• stickers (300207379)
• towing (300444040)
• white (color) (300129784)
Wikidata items:
• 31 May 2022 (Q69306446)
• all caps (Q3960579)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• Downtown Danville Historic District (Q15214951)
• May 31 (Q2591)
• May 2022 (Q61312955)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• Piedmont (Q426977)
• River District (Q17017483)
• Southside Virginia (Q7571041)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Historic buildings—Virginia (sh85061105)