Posted on 09/30/2021 2:17:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
But one innocuous sign near Bakersfield has long inspired curiosity, befuddlement and hundreds of online dispatches from travelers passing. The sign, just outside the oil derrick town of Lost Hills, reads “Tom McCleod slept here” in an austere sans-serif font. It raises the question asked again and again by drivers: Who is Tom McCleod?
...After days of failed phone calls and redirected emails, the fourth Tom McLeod, a Vietnam War veteran who now works as the curator at the Museum of the Pacific in Texarkana, Texas, got back to me. This Tom is closely linked to Pacific Wrecks, a group that seeks to identify and otherwise valorize soldiers who were missing-in-action or prisoners of war. And “Tom McCleod slept here” signs are in Texas and Arkansas, too, he says. Louisiana and Mississippi, as well.
But he has no idea who the guy is.
“It’s a big puzzle for us also,” he said in an email. “Apparently someone has more money than brains.”
...finding this post has [at] least provided [10 minutes] of distracting conversation,”
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Thanx.
You wouldn’t think it was California. You’d think it was Mexico. Especially 99. Heck, Almost all the cities between I5 and the Sierras don’t even have English signs.
maybe Tom was married to Pauline?
https://thesungazette.com/article/news/obituaries/2016/04/13/obituary-dick-l-mccleod/
Near me there is a guy who put up a sign. It looks just like a historical marker and says “on April 5th, 1742 absolutely nothing happened here”.
Wonder how many people he’s got over the years.
CC
Dennis Weaver had a good run in TV and movies.
Chester in Gunsmoke, McCloud and that movie being stalked and chased by an old big rig tanker.
What???
I didn’t see a single pic of the guy from the TV series that had the meme “There can be only one!”. Great series.
There have always been weird signs up and down the 5 in the middle of nowhere. There are a few on the 15 on the way to Vegas too. When I used to drive to Oklahoma/Arkansas there were weird signs too.
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