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re: Speakring of billboards - Interesting billboard stat in The Advocate today
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:17 pm to captainahab
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:17 pm to captainahab
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Since 1980, the number of billboards here has dropped from 15,000 to under 1,500."
Currently there is roughly 10% of the amount from 1980...
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Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:18 pm to HoopyD
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There are over 7,000 billboards in Louisiana.
Are they only counting the jumbo boards along the interstates and major highways or are they also counting the little ones that you see all over the back roads and throughout small towns?
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:19 pm to tgrbaitn08
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There’s only 70,000 billboards in the country?
Yeah I find that hard to believe.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:20 pm to mikelbr
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Mississipp don't have us beat with the casinos?
Those casino billboards are obnoxious but at least they serve a better purpose than 1000 Gordon fricking McCrackKern billboards.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:29 pm to tgrbaitn08
quote:statista says that there were 341,606 billboards in the US in 2018
There’s only 70,000 billboards in the country?
slightly under one billboard per 1,000 people
This post was edited on 4/5/19 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:31 pm to ThePoo
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statista says that there were 341,606 billboards in the US in 2018
That’s more like it
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:35 pm to tgrbaitn08
which if you divide by 7,000 comes out to just under 49
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:38 pm to tgrbaitn08
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There’s only 70,000 billboards in the country?
The advocate can't even make their own mobile site work so I doubt they put much research into this
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:39 pm to ThePoo
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statista says that there were 341,606 billboards in the US in 2018
That's what I saw.
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slightly under one billboard per person
There's only 350K people in the US?
Posted on 4/5/19 at 12:55 pm to burdman
The statistic shows the number of billboards in the United States from 2016 to 2018. According to the source, there were 341.61 thousand billboards in the U.S. in 2018, down from 368.8 thousand ...
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:00 pm to vl100butch
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of the 7000 billboards, how many of them are for trial lawyers?
If I had to give a rough estimate I would say around 40%
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:07 pm to captainahab
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"In Texas, 388 cities — including most large and medium-size cities — have ordinances prohibiting new billboards. One of them is Austin..."
Big government anti business state
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:09 pm to HoopyD
Source?
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:11 pm to mikelbr
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Mississipp don't have us beat with the casinos?
That’s the other 90%.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:12 pm to ThePoo
quote:wait what? wanna try that math again?
341,606 billboards in the US in 2018
slightly under one billboard per person
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:14 pm to HoopyD
Not even close to being accurate.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:29 pm to HoopyD
We love our billboards, don't we folks!
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:40 pm to PsychTiger
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Are 90% of those are probably ambulance chasing lawyers.
And on Hwy 90 between New Iberia and the Lafayette Airport.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:41 pm to crazyLSUstudent
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Source?
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Speakring of billboards - Interesting billboard stat in The Advocate today
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:43 pm to HoopyD
And half of ALL sign advertising is at Alex Box Stadium!
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