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Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

this is an e-mail i recieved along with other lucky recipients.
i e-mailed Bob and asked for his permission to post this on the bullboard.
here, i will let Bob tell you about it...

"Hey guys and gals, here's my very first graphic job ever.
It's from around 1971 or '72. Terrible hey! This was a poster and a business
card.
It lived as a biz card because it was shotdown.

I found this the other day because the former owner was desparate for it!
Don't throw that old carpola out!

Have we all come a long way or what?

Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas.

Bob"

thanks buddy for sharing this priceless work with everyone.

heck, who knows, maybe a pic post about "our" first payin' jobs!!LOL

you got the ball rolling mr. parsons.;

(the guy also plays some nice jazz guitar!!!)

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Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :

I have an old black and white photo of my first paying job 1966 or 67?
Think I was 15 or 16?
If I e-mail it to you,you want to add it to the 1st pay page? Maybe you got a bright idea there, sunny.

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PKing is
Pat King of
King Sign Design in
McCalla,Alabama
The Professor of
SIGNOLOGY

Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

send it to me duckster!!!
i will post it.

monkeyboy

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Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :

well...mine was on a "tin plate"...naw just jokin...si should have some in "sepia tone"hahahahahha...only ones i got are since i been in fla 1981, my house that me and my parents lived in from 1950-80 burnt to the ground in 1980... 5 days after i sold it...lost all memrobilia...if i can find one of the 1st ill send it..it was baddddddd....

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Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

This is FUN! (and pretty darn embarrassing!)
I guess you could say this was my first paying job. I made this even before I worked at Payless as their sign painter, and way before I started my own business. I think I was about 17 years old when I did this, and I remember I got 25.00. Toooo funny! but what the heck............musta been in about '72 or '73

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Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :

oops, see next post

[This message has been edited by FranCisco Vargas (edited December 05, 2000).]

Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :

Hey Mark and Bob good post, since you posted it Mark, here's one of my favorites of Bob Parsons drawings. I clipped it out of which issue? Sorry I don't remember, but I always enjoyed it cause it related to sometimes I had to fiqure out how was I going to design this sign...Cisco

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Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

Pat King sent me this photo to post.
here is pat doing his first paying job.

hey pat, i think you need to get your face a little closer to your work! LOL

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Mark Fair

Mark Fair Signs
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Home of "Sign of the Month
http://www.markfair.com/signomonth.html

2162 Mt. Meigs Road
Montgomery, Alabama 36107
334-262-4449

mark@markfair.com

"Mark Fair is a Proud Contributor to The Letterhead Site!"

Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :

Thanks Mark for posting that for me!
Being my FIRST paying job at age 15.That is very high CONCENTRATION you are looking at.

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PKing is
Pat King of
King Sign Design in
McCalla,Alabama
The Professor of
SIGNOLOGY

Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :

You get on with your bad self Pat! yup that looks like some heavy concentration

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Fresno, CA 93703
559 252-0935

"to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98

Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :

Hey Pat.....that chair your sitting on looks like it was out of your sight while at a Dixie Letterhead Meet...It's not splattered! Was that Bobbie's Dad's Boat? Were you cross eyed after the job?

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