It's hard not to read the graffiti and the ad for the radio station in some kind of tandem, even though the billboard has managed to be up for a good few days before it was written on. I guess that all that bright blank yellow space was just too tempting for words. Or rather, it invited words: spanto2tone. I think - so far as Google can take one into gangs and graffiti - that this is actually celebrating/commemorating/signing two different people. It also seems as though Spanto, at least, hails from Venice (that's Venice, CA, not the place that's been shockingly 70% under water last week), and maybe 2tone as well. So that's quite a trip eastwards to sign themselves in.
I like the typewriter script, let alone the downbeat nature of the message. And I like it in Walker-Evans-y black and white ...
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