While the departments along the back wall got nice dimensional signage with light boxes, most of the general merchandise area looked more like this, with plain lettering stuck right on the wall. But at least there are still the semi-cartoonish drawings to go along with the signs! And off to the right is something that solved a big mystery for me...
You're probably too young to remember such things, but back in the 1990s, I had a couple of CD-ROM computer programs that contained large clip art galleries which contained graphics very similar to that paint graphic on the wall of the Fred Meyer. I'm thinking that maybe Fred Meyer got their decor, at least in these parts of the store, from one of those clip art discs!
ReplyDeleteBack when CD-ROMs were still something pretty revolutionary, I had a pretty expensive program called Corel Draw that contained a large clip art gallery on the CD-ROM. However, computers probably not fast enough for a searchable and previewable index of clip art back then so they had to provide a printed catalog of clip art along with the software! Yep, imagine a ~500 page book with nothing but images of clip art! I had that! In fact, I may still have the book somewhere. I remember putting bookmarks in the pages that contained images that I thought might be useful at some point!
I may be too young for clip art in books, but certainly not for clip art as a whole -- and you're right, these drawings do look quite a bit like clip art!
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