This is Sam’s Racing Service, located at Curepe, Trinidad, W.I. What can be said about these thoroughbreds are the animals look as if they are galloping from a mystical racetrack which the artist has painted with much zeal.
All bets are that horse # 2 will win the race as she begins to floats over the guardrail. Yet, it is a work that has an sweet affectionateness in its visual adaptation.
A wall painting on board, Curepe, Trinidad, W.I.
A sign removed
Who was this model? And what possessed her to pose so effortlessly. Rumour has it that the former super sized cut-out is actually a known dancer in the area, then others say that she succumbed to AIDS and the sign with removed in respect. But truth is generally the line between. One thing is clear, at the heart of the island’s busiest junction, adjacent to the Priority Bus Route, Curepe, Trinidad, West Indies, it is no more.
Before, Miss ¼ mile adorned the roof of a Sports Bar and /or Racing Club. The giant twenty-foot realistic photographic cut-out of a seductive woman straddled over an Americanized wing emblem displaying the type in neon, “1/4 Mile.”
For men, this is a birth rite to those who enter. A checkered flag awning surrounds the building with two posters of drag-racing engines located at either side of the single-story structure. Miss ¼ mile is naturally back lit by the ever changing heavens behind her and her legs are spread- eagle as if she was exercising with an invisible “Thigh Master.” Then later, she will be ready to seduce the public with her yellow canary bikini top and matching stretched wide-gapped Poom-Poom shorts.
The purr of an engine that brings men in
For users of the Nation’s most traveled road. This billboard was strategically placed on the skirt visible to all walks of life. And without doubt, remarks of men’s virility arise; “Ah could take she and make it sweet,” spoken without restraint from men seated at a window in passing maxi- taxis.
This sign has been removed
House, Pool, Car and lucky numbers
A dream transfered onto a van, Trinidad West Indies
The pursuit of happiness comes in many ways, and one sure way is winning a lotto from the Trinidad and Tobago lottery board. So here is an example of the material wealth you should aim for wrapped around this van. If you squint your eyes a bit, the montage looks like a crumbled car. What unusual luck.
Not as innocent as you think
At Grand Bazaars or Festivals across these islands, small portable tables with numbers, wheels and markings are setup to lure the greed in us. The proprietor of this gambling board game quickly had his table up and running during one of Trinidad and Tobago’s carnival venues. Called, “Lucky 7,” the principle of the game is to double your earning by three folds. And the operator says you can be as lucky as he by simply demonstrating his crafty skill and “skull.” A twitch of his wrist (and years of practice with weighted dices) produces the results where both the tin and dice work their magic and the outcome is always 7. But for the gullible and nave risk takers, the novelty of this game is to try.
On the spot 4+3
“Mark meh seven” – State owned gambling. Wall Painting PlayWhe
The Trinidad Aesthetic: “Skull” to deceive
