What About This?

By Dan Rattiner

I'll bet there is one thing the Town overlooked in allowing airport advertising. What if the area spirals down into a major economic depression? It's not very likely, but I don't think anybody has considered it.

The Town cannot control whom the ads are sold to. Although the citizen who brought up the matter of the half-naked Calvin Klein model was assured that all ads would be in good taste.

In a depression, however, the buyers of the ads might be of a different order. An arriving airline passenger would have to pass down a hallway festooned with ads for such things as Bail Bonding, Mace, Preparation H, Smith and Wesson, Dr. Scholl's Corn Plasters, Pawn Shops, Hair Removal Salons, Debt Consolidation, Earn a High School Diploma, Learn English in Your Spare Time, Get Rolaids to Stop Gas and Don't Let the Big Kid Kick Sand in Your Face at the Beach, Learn Martial Arts.

Didn't think of that, did ya, East Hampton?

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