[Dixielandjazz] Signs

[LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing]

Normally I wouldn't talk about my business on this site but since you brought it up.  It seems that quite a few musicians are in some form of commercial art here in St. Louis.  Mike Brooks from EMBEE Ideas got me started in the  business about 10 years ago.  He's the one that makes the poly band stands.  He's pretty good at design work.  The other one I work with is Gary Dammer who is one of the best jazz trumpet players in town.  He has a big band and sextet.  For obvious reasons the sextet plays a lot more gigs.  I have played with Gary for more than  45 years in the AF and in his big band.   He runs Art Graphics Studio and is a top flight illustrator.  He sends me jobs fairly often.  He is specializing in helicopter (and other) air crashes.  We do the court displays.   So if you decide to run your chopper into the ground you might be helping jazz in St. Louis.

Larry

Bill Horton wrote


Sounds like your day job is similar to my #2 son's in Ft. Collins, CO.  He
started out with highway billboards, putting them up, preparing the artwork
copy for renters, and installing the signs.  Billboards are a dying
business, due to many laws prohibiting new ones.  Main business now is big
kiosks in shopping malls with cycling advertisements, translucent with
interior lighting.  Imported the machines from Belgium!  Each machine has
two display sides (about 6' high by 4' wide), and each side will accommodate
7 advertisers.  He can set how long the ads are exposed before another
cycles into place.  Heckuva good business.

Shortly after installation, the Belgian company sent an engineer over to
correct a problem he had with one machine.  They made my son their agent for
western U.S. sales, but he has concentrated on selling ads for his machines,
and hasn't made any effort to sell machines for them.

He's gone to tradjazz clubs with us a couple of times, but just isn't hooked
on the music like his dad and mom, unfortunately.  Where did we go wrong?

Bill Horton