great way to advertise your product, make a really big eye catching example of it, and back in the 1920s, they would drive to some road where they could get a photo of it with the capital building in the background
I am fairly certain that is the South Portico of the White House in the background, not the Capitol but I take your meaning. The road (State St. or E St.,NW??) the trunk truck is on was long ago closed to vehicular traffic, and the iron fencing is about three times as tall. Here is something random, but similar, I found online:
I pulled the image from an article about "Out of Home" (OHH) advertising by a large international corporation called Koch Industries, so apparently it was a strategic marketing ploy:
I am fairly certain that is the South Portico of the White House in the background, not the Capitol but I take your meaning. The road (State St. or E St.,NW??) the trunk truck is on was long ago closed to vehicular traffic, and the iron fencing is about three times as tall. Here is something random, but similar, I found online:
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Right! White House... my error.
DeleteInteresting! Do you think that was a random photo, or a photo op for that business to use for marketing?
I pulled the image from an article about "Out of Home" (OHH) advertising by a large international corporation called Koch Industries, so apparently it was a strategic marketing ploy:
ReplyDeletehttps://oohtoday.com/here-is-how-ooh-went-to-the-white-house-and-congress/