Obscurity and Decay

With the Deee-lightful city of Madison, Wisconsin being in the news (it’s all we have been hearing about lately on our favorite media medium, the AM Radio, all week long), we thought it only proper to treat you, the visitor, to one of the most charming things in that great locale – the Octopus Car Wash! Complete with a gigantic mobile green octopus spinning around on a pole. Actually, it was the OTHER one on the roof that first caught our attention from the high-way.

Octopus Car Wash as seen from highway

We were pleasantly surprised by its big brother up front in that lovely mid-Century boomerang!

Octopus Car Wash boomerang sign

Its tentacles include squeegee, bucket, brush, rag – well, there MUST be 8 things there right?

Octopus Car Wash customer entrance

You can best believe that I became a customer with such tasteful signage! The crest of golden waves a wonderful compliment to our green octopi friends. I wonder if this is what Ringo had in mind when the Beatles recorded “Octopus’s Garden” ? I hope it was.

Liquor Party sign

Republican Party? Democrat Party? What about the Liquor Party as referred to by this other awesome mid-Century beauty complete with patriotic light- up Starr?

Three Keys sign

And what about the Key Party? You know to which I refer – those swinging parties of the 70’s! Signs like this truly have the key to my heart!

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