Plastic palms
06/07/2006 @ 6:00 am
When out driving along a picturesque seashore with friends down in Kyushu a few weeks ago, we were surprised to come upon a building surrounded by manmade palm trees.
The garishly colored plastic “bark” and “fronds” really made me wonder what exactly the owner of the building was trying to accomplish.
Those things are all over China, even more garish when lit at night.
June 7th, 2006 at 8:32 amThere’s no way of “palming” those things off as the real deal. (punned-it zing!!!)
June 7th, 2006 at 9:16 amThat’s an LA expat’s house.
You should go and say hi JP - use valleyspeak.
Those things also exist in the U.S., I saw them at a car dealership in Corpus Christi. They look cool with X-mas lights on them tho. Of course everyone knows car dealers have no taste.. Well unless you consider the “faux noveau-riche” thing a taste.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:09 amThat’s the cracked polystyrene man’s house.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:20 amI wonder if they glow in a black light.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:41 amOr Polythene Pam’s pad?
June 7th, 2006 at 12:38 pmPicturesque often gets trampled by the artificial, everywhere. From fake flowers to fake palms. Yucko!
June 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pmThank god I’ve never encountered those things before, either in Japan or the United States. They have to be the ugliest fake anything that I’ve ever seen!
June 7th, 2006 at 2:50 pm…There’s some decorating the outside of a Hooters in my city…
June 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm