San Pedro Town Sign May Not Be First in Country But It’s the Biggest!

Over the last week, we’ve watched a large cement structure go up on the beach in Central Park, San Pedro.

It didn’t take long to ID…a “San Pedro” sign.  And a BIG one!  Here is a pic of my neighbor standing with the sign yesterday.  She is at least 5 feet 5 inches tall!

I’m not sure what or who started this multi-colored CITY SIGN trend.  (The Hollywood or, as it said originally “Hollywoodland”, sign over Los Angelos, CA went up in 1923…the precursor to it all!)  I know I’ve seen them around Mexico…and there is a big on the way over the bridge into Flores Guatemala.  (Homebase for trips to the Maya City of Tikal)

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They started going up in Belize about 5 or 6 years ago.  First – a one smaller one in the Buttonwood Bay section of Belize City – you had to search for it a bit!    And then the main one in the Fort George Area – at the main entrance to the river and the cruise ship port.

For scale!

Signs went up across the country…

San Ignacio a few years back.

Beautiful photo and recent blog on San Ignacio by LivingOutLau.

Colorful Corozal has a pretty version on the sea.

Tiny Sarteneja’s version on the sea.  (What a pretty pretty village)

Punta Gorda in the far south has a sign with the name of their town in Garifuna.  (Pic from PGTours)

Caye Caulker’s sign – picture of my brother and fam in Feb 2018.  (We had SUCH a great charter over there –

Two more were added down by the Split.  (Photos last month in a very quiet Caye Caulker)

San Pedro got this one (put up by the now-defunct business, Poco Locos Food Court)

Here is 2019.

Here last week.  If you are looking for a lot on the middle of Front Street!

And again, by private enterprise, Secret Beach.

So i think you should be picking up what I am laying down…right?  San Pedro’s sign is a bit late to the party (but then if you arrive at a party in Belize at the invited time? you are probably there before the decorations even go up!) but I can guarantee that she there are going to be LOTS of photos with it…on it…around it…all over social media.

Here are the photos that I’ve taken over this past week.  Allllmost done.

I really liked it nude.

And then Friday…

And yesterday – Saturday Feb 27th.

Ta dah!

And as you exit off the water taxi?

As a facebook friend joked…it looks a bit like Russian 😉

WELCOME TO ƧAИ ꟼƎႧЯO

 

 

 

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