Stenciled PSAs

Different communities down here in the Southland have different identities, and out of these distinct identities come minor differences in how similar things get done. Something as simple as the heavy duty metallic stencil painting "No Dumping" notices that adorn the ground and accompany the street-level sewer drains, the kind that warn that runoff heads to the ocean, can take on interesting looks from place to place.

The most common look out here uses the fish skeleton. This look, and variations of it, can be seen from Santa Monica all the way down here in Long Beach, where from this particular picture comes.



In San Pedro, far closer to us than Santa Monica, they go with a different look, with a symbol that exemplifies our imagination's ocean-living counterparts; the dolphin.



And lastly, a city on an island uses it's own animal representative in a picture I've posted before; Avalon and its flying fish.