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The Chehalis tribe acquired property in which the uncle Sam advertisement board is inhabited along the I-5 Lewis County, since 1960. A symbol of free language and local debate.
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Billboard, originally built of Alfred Hamilton, faced legal challenges and public petitions for removal, but despite the latest rumors, remains unchanged.
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The tribe is not a real plans for the website of the future, but is pleased to have purchased it, and Billboard continues to suffer emotions and disputes.
Lewis County, washing. – For decades, the old lightning stick at the Interstate 5 in Lewis County has officially changed.
The Chehalis tribe has acquired assets, which is home to the infamous Uncle Sam advertisement board and polarizing symbol, which draws both fierce criticism and fierce defense as it first rose in the middle of the 60s.
What they say
“I mean you just can’t miss it. It’s right for I-5,” said real estate agent Israel Jimenez, who has handled the sale. “Everyone seems to know everywhere that is gone here.”
Pascel Off Exit 75 was included in $ 2.5 million. USD. According to Jimenez, the Chehal tribe reached its first week of publication.
“The tribe doesn’t even really know what they will do with it. They are just glad they have recovered,” he said.
Jimenez, Napavine’s native, said the bulletin board had long since caused emotions.
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Backstage
“It was here since 1967 and only soon after it was built, he had a distance immediately,” Jimenez said. “There was a lawsuit over a decade to remove it.”
The lawsuit arose in 1971, when the then General Slade Gorton filed a lawsuit under the Law on SageCist Vista, which aims to remove the sign. However, the Supreme Court of Washington, the Supreme Court, finally ruled on the Billboard owner Alfred Hamilto for freedom of expression.
According to local historian Felix Banel, now the infamous owner initially built a sign from Spit.
“He had a turkey farm, they crossed the Interstate 5. He received compensation for the land, but not at the degree he wanted, because it was a public project of prominent domains, so he submits the sign and begins to comment, “Banel said.” It literally became a lightning rod for disputes. “
Hamilton died in 2004 after decades after changing messages.
“The members of his family seemed to retain a tradition, but Mr Hamilton did it nowhere,” Banel said.
Local perspective
2020 The efforts to remove the bulletin board intensified. There was a public petition signed by more than 75,000 people and then an arson test.
This week, after the news that the tribe purchased the property, false rumors spread on the Internet that messages had already been changed on the bulletin board.
Fox 13 traveled to the sign to the sign and found that the images and statements were fake. The signs did not change over the years. Fox 13 also contacted the Chehal tribe to comment but did not hear.
The source
Information in this story is from the original reporter Lauren Donovan of Fox 13 Seattle reporter.
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