CARS OR CARCASSES? At the Cadillac Ranch today, decades of accretions of spray paint seem to have melted the Caddies’ forms acrylic flowstone, rendering them hardly recognizable as automobiles.
Markings along the Mother Road
Kilroy Was Here.
Those of a certain generation know what we’re talking about—the ubiquitous doodle from World War II that helped build a sense of American moxie, resilience and camaraderie. It appeared everywhere from bathroom walls to liberated buildings, in the textbooks of high school pranksters, on vehicles and tanks.
It wasn’t, by a long shot, the first-ever example of graffiti. The word likely…
