Want To See your Billboard? Not in Maine!

The state of Maine and WCSH6 noted last week the 40th anniversary of Maine’s billboard ban.  It was 40 years ago, last week, that then Governor James B. Longley signed the act that eventually removed 8,500 billboards across the state. It took almost seven years for that task to be completed.

At the same time the Portland (Maine) Press Herald has a story celebrating local photographer Kari Grosser Herer who’s photo of her daughter enjoying a splash in the pool has been part of an Apple iPhone ad campaign, with billboards and huge banners in more than a dozen cities across the globe.  The billboards have been spotted in 13 cities including New York, Los Angeles and even Mumbai, India.

As for the billboards, Herer has not seen any of them in person (and certainly will not see them in Maine).  She is planning a trip to Wisconsin this summer and may take a route that takes her through New York, so she can see the billboard there at Astor Place and Cooper Square, and perhaps other cities where the billboard is hanging, including Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Other U.S. cities with the billboard include Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio.

Her daughter, she said, is pretty excited about seeing an image of her reproduced so large.

Insider’s take – But alas, not in her home state of Maine.

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