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‘WELCOME TO PERTH’: Rooftop Sign Scares Passengers Flying Into Sydney Airport
A “welcome to Perth” sign painted on a building rooftop is scaring fliers descending to Sydney airport into thinking they have been flown to the wrong Australian city. The prank was spotted by a passenger coming into land at the country’s busiest airport and shared on Reddit. The building, in the Sydney suburb of Sydenham, is directly on the flight path. The building owner, Brad Heasman, told Australia’s Traveller he has been quietly waiting for someone to notice it since painting it three… (www.independent.co.uk) More...
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There was a roadside gas station and snack bar near where my sister lived. It was on a 'spur' that was abandoned decades ago, and it's actually been decades since this happened, but there was a movie looking for 'the perfect site' to have a gas station/soda shop. The production company came around looking. Checked out other neighboring buildings, and decided that was the only place worth filming there. So they came in, spent over 6 months rebuilding, and aging the building and the surrounding area. They planted trees, redid the road shoulder, and fed a ton of money into the local economy. Then the 'cattle calls' came, and they hired hundreds of locals to be 'town folk', and some got to drive period cars by the gas station during filming. It was a huge deal around there. People were openly trying to get their crews to stop at their place to eat, and hotel to stay.
Then they all left, this was before filming. They came back, hundreds of semi trucks, and what appeared to be thousands of crew, they did some last minute grooming of the site, and the surrounding area. Called all the extras, rejected half of them, filmed for just about a day, and they all left. Everything was left 'as is'. The production company had bought the property, and another production came through and filmed a huge disaster there, and burned the whole thing to the ground freaking out residents. No one expected that end. They actually loved the new building, that was a mess inside, and some tried to buy it, and restore the inside and make it a local museum.
And now the site is a ditch, with some burned out wreckage. It was still a memorable experience for many there, but I doubt that they would welcome HollyWeird in the future...
Then they all left, this was before filming. They came back, hundreds of semi trucks, and what appeared to be thousands of crew, they did some last minute grooming of the site, and the surrounding area. Called all the extras, rejected half of them, filmed for just about a day, and they all left. Everything was left 'as is'. The production company had bought the property, and another production came through and filmed a huge disaster there, and burned the whole thing to the ground freaking out residents. No one expected that end. They actually loved the new building, that was a mess inside, and some tried to buy it, and restore the inside and make it a local museum.
And now the site is a ditch, with some burned out wreckage. It was still a memorable experience for many there, but I doubt that they would welcome HollyWeird in the future...
After we had touched down on a flight from Calgary to Toronto years ago on our Calgary based airline, the attendant came on and said “Welcome to *pause* the Center of the Universe..”. I broke up laughing but no one around me did. “Oh, you guys are from Toronto hey?”
I like it...
However, the actual center of the universe is 42.3467° N, 71.0972° W
However, the actual center of the universe is 42.3467° N, 71.0972° W
Reminds me of KLM, who for years had the roof of Brentford Stadium in London, conveniently located on the flight path very close to Heathrow. The roof was painted royal blue, with big white letters saying "Next time, Fly KLM". BA tried for years to buy out the contract but had no success.
BOAC, and latter British Airways have the award for thinnest skin air line executives, for KLM got under their skins as did Virgin Atlantic. Apparently british humor exists only when they tell what ever it is amongst themselves.
Around the same time, there was a movie about birding with Jack Black and Steve Martin where they were supposedly catching a ride from Merrill out to the Aleutians in a DC-3. They filmed it in some remote runway in the woods of British Columbia and put a "Merrill Field" sign on the one hangar on the gravel strip. I thought it was pretty ironic that one movie filmed at Merrill and tried to make it look like remote Barrow and the other used a remote runway and tried to call it Merrill. At least in the birding movie they used a TransNorthern DC-3 from Anchorage.