the Central Coast of California

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I've always remembered seeing these humorous and wonderful plywood cutouts at a roadside artichoke stand in Castroville, California; so I'm guessing the signs are slightly older than me -- I'm going to be 63 soon. Ouch...





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Our family passed through Castroville several times a year on our way back and forth to Grandma's house. That would be my Mom, complaining that she just didn't have a pot big enough!!! A big sign in Castroville proclaims the small town "ARTICHOKE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD"



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Highway One now skirts the burg of Watsonville these days, but for years we had to drive across the streets of this busy farm town -- an interesting multi-cultural experience, every time.

Huge quantities of strawberries are grown near Watsonville -- if they don't call themselves the "STRAWBERRY CAPITOL OF THE WORLD", they should.

For this photo I stopped in the break-down-lane on the narrow and elevated freeway. The workers quickly figured out I was snapping their photo and didn't seem to mind -- taking just a second to do a bit of clowning for us.



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If you've driven north of Santa Cruz you've undoubtedly seen this fine old truck with the King Kong sized strawberry.



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Going south in the morning it was sunny, but coming home in the afternoon the fog started to come in and I had to rely on all the usual navigational aids -- oh you know -- lighthouses, fog horns, curb feelers, radar, etc...


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