{"id":1436,"date":"2010-04-21T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T11:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T11:19:04","slug":"crap-london-jobs-the-sandwich-board-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/crap-london-jobs-the-sandwich-board-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap London jobs: the sandwich board man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sandwich-boards-london.jpg\" alt=\"Crap London jobs: the sandwich board man\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sandwich board men have been on the streets of London for centuries, providing cheap and effective advertising for local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Go back two hundred years and you would have seen fancy dress version of today&#8217;s human billboards, with placard holders dressed in outlandish, eye catching clothes and their banners taking on a multitude of shapes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the streets filled with armies of curiously dressed walking billboards, the novelty soon worn off, so advertisers were pressed to come up with new attention-grabbing ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Warren of 30 Strand was particularly adventurous, coming up with a novel mass walking display of blacking tins in the 1830s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/london\/images\/billboards05.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Scharf's London street sketches showing sandwich men and human billboards\" width=\"425\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve suffered this job myself too, and once had to get up at 6am, don a gorilla outfit and hand out leaflets outside a tube station for a sandwich bar in the centre of London.<\/p>\n<p>At that time of the morning, not many people appreciated my costume, but at least I didn&#8217;t have to wear the banana costume.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been snapping street sandwich board men for several years around London. Here&#8217;s a couple from this year with more in the link below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/london\/images\/london-billboards-02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Human billboards and sandwich board advertising on the streets of London UK - update 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/london\/images\/london-billboards-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Human billboards and sandwich board advertising on the streets of London UK - update 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/billboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">Human billboards on the streets of London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandwich board men have been on the streets of London for centuries, providing cheap and effective advertising for local businesses. 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