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Pennsylvania Highway Interchange Popular Among Web Users as Symbol of American Homogeneity Due to a quirk of a now-defuct law causing an abundance of low speed
by asark 7y ago
Pennsylvania Highway Interchange Popular Among Web Users as Symbol of American Homogeneity
Due to a quirk of a now-defuct law causing an abundance of low speed traffic, an unusually dense set of typical off-interstate chain stores and restaurants sprung up around a Breezewood, PA interstate exit. This location has become popular among Web users for creating photos embodying the homogeneity and cultural sterility of such places.
There, headline and first couple sentences of a non-clickbait article for you.
- draw_down 7y agoYou guys love talking about "clickbait". Jeez.
- Eiriksmal 7y agoIf you read the article, you'd discover that it's not unusually dense. The photographer in question, Edward Burtynsky, spent three days finding the right location. He rented a scissor lift and shot from several stories up, with a zoom lens, giving an impression of density you can't see from the ground.
- o_nate 7y agoThat's a good example of how the lies of art can create a greater truth. It's rare to see all the big corporate logos superimposed on different parts of the field of view, rather like the sponsorship patches on the jacket of a NASCAR driver, but it speaks to a real experience of one gas station, diner or fast food place after another that is encountered across interstate America.