Faux History & Importance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bicentennial-wagon-train-signatures-are-lost-pieces-of-american-past/2011/06/30/AGo7zxwH_story.html
Yawn. Sorry, but all this points out is how ephemeral corporate advertising events are. And that's all this really is, (and, as usual, backed up with government money). There are many examples, (the obscene advertising orgy over the refurbished Statue of Liberty a few decades back is an obvious one). The "scrolls" were thrown out forty years ago, as soon as they'd lost their marketing appeal, along with old feel-good knick-knacks and gimcrack from a thousand other campaigns: Happy Meals trinkets, Esso tiger tails, etc. (I suppose people can console themselves - their signatures were buried - but in landfill.)
Yawn. Sorry, but all this points out is how ephemeral corporate advertising events are. And that's all this really is, (and, as usual, backed up with government money). There are many examples, (the obscene advertising orgy over the refurbished Statue of Liberty a few decades back is an obvious one). The "scrolls" were thrown out forty years ago, as soon as they'd lost their marketing appeal, along with old feel-good knick-knacks and gimcrack from a thousand other campaigns: Happy Meals trinkets, Esso tiger tails, etc. (I suppose people can console themselves - their signatures were buried - but in landfill.)
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