Bumper/Window Stickers
What is the deal with bumper stickers?
Cars are so expensive and people often plaster them with stickers…..that are permanent!
Bumper stickers can reveal how many people are in your family and how many girls and boys you have.
They tell us what kind of pet you own and let us know your political stance on things.
And it’s not like I’m against them per se. For example, I think it’s important to remind people behind you that you have a baby on board.
I also understand that people have their yearly stickers for the lots they park in or their CAA memberships (for example) proudly presented.
Some of them make me laugh right out loud. Some of them are offensive.
But mostly I can’t believe people sometimes block their eye lines with them or don’t put them on neatly….on NEW CARS!
Ha ha. But that’s just me.
I actually had a lot of fun taking photos of vehicle stickers over the last month and a half. (Some of them I got from my better half.)
Here is some bumper sticker history:
Cars didn’t originally come with bumpers — that didn’t happen until Ford released the Model A in 1927. And even then, bumper stickers weren’t quite on the scene yet. In those early days, people used cardboard signs tied with rope to share messages from their bumpers. As you might guess, those signs didn’t hold up well in bad weather.
It wasn’t until pressure-sensitive labels were invented that real stickers became possible. Ray Stanton Avery is credited with creating the first modern adhesive label, paving the way for bumper stickers as we know them today. In the 1940s, Forrest P. Gill of Kansas City, Missouri combined adhesive-backed paper with fluorescent paint to create the first custom bumper stickers — originally called “bumper strips.”
Tourism was the first industry to really embrace bumper stickers. Resorts and attractions began sticking them onto visitor cars in parking lots — yes, without permission. While that strategy wouldn’t fly today, it worked back then. Visitors would head home with a sticker on their bumper, unknowingly promoting the place they just visited to every driver along the way. From: “Carstickers”.
Do you have one/some on your car?
Keep your eye out for them when you you head out…..but pay attention to your driving!!!