Nothing new under the sun - By Mark Scarp - I received a telephone message from a reader on Sunday, a polite and earnest woman who disagreed with my assertion in my Sunday Perspective column (Feb. 10): "Memo to politicians: Here’s your sign…." She said she thought it was “cruel” to “make” those people known as "sign walkers” hold signs on street corners advertising condos or sales in “120-degree weather." (02/11/08)

Memo to politicians: Here’s your sign - By Mark Scarp - Whether “sign walkers,” people usually found on local street corners holding up signs directing you to some everything-must-go furniture sale or a new condo project seeking buyers, can be entirely banned by municipal ordinances is the subject of a second attempt at fashioning a state law on the subject in two years.
The impetus for this effort is Scottsdale’s recent actions to ban all political signs from its rights of way and stepped-up enforcement of the city’s 35-year-old ban on sign walkers as an offshoot of Scottsdale’s well-known anti-billboard ordinance. (02/10/08)

Furniture Style: What's the Best Way to Advertise? Published: February, 07 2008 By Thomas A. Prais - “If you’re running a major event,” he said, “pay whatever it takes to have sign walkers. There is no better draw in the promotional business than drive-by business.” ~ Louis Shotten, President of American Furniture Promotions... (02/07/08)

Bill to reverse 'sign walker' ban returns - Brian Powell, Tribune - A state legislator is once again trying to overturn Scottsdale's decades-old ban on "sign walkers" who advertise auto dealers, housing subdivisions, and other businesses from city sidewalks and medians.
Rep. Bob Robson, R-Chandler, has introduced a bill for the second consecutive year that would force all municipalities to allow posting, displaying and using sign walkers.
Robson said he sees this as a First Amendment issue in which government is restricting free speech.
"A person on a street corner holding a sign, I don't think, is detrimental to the world," Robson said.
The bill also states municipalities may adopt reasonable time, place and manner regulations for public safety purposes, which Robson hopes will make it more agreeable to communities and the governor...(02/03/08)

The Sign Shakers of Southern California - One of the things that I've always marveled about in Southern California is how many things that are automated in other areas of the country are done by real people in Los Angeles. You take your car to a carwash in Ohio, when you come out, you're left to dry it yourself. If someone dries it for you, it's called "detailing."
I guess the best example of this is the sign shakers. They stand on street corners at rush hour or weekends and hold a sign and wiggle it, to create excitement or attract our attention. They're signs for cell phone stores, going out of business sales, model home tours and pizzas... (07/17/04)

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