I was wondering if anyone out there might have come across similar
sites, either related to the military or to tourism?
At Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, there's a signpost forest, started 70
years ago by US Army servicemen who affixed homemade signs pointing
back to their home towns to an official signpost. Since then the
habit spread, and there's now tens of thousands of signs added by
tourists in a small thicket of signposts over the intervening years.
See www.watsonlake.ca/our-community/sign-post-forest/ for a short
explanation.
Here at the Historic Sites team of the Yukon Government, I'm carrying
out out some research into the site. We're interested in knowing if
this tradition can be found on other WW2 or more recent military sites
(the homemade signpost in M*A*S*H is about the only other example I
can easily trace) and if it has been recorded or researched
internationally? We're also intrigued as to how, where and when it
jumped to civilian use as similar examples (usually based on single
signposts) can be found in other parts of the world, and again if
there's been any studies into this practice?
Thanks, Dan Windwood
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