Is the Identify on Undertake-a-Freeway Signal the Famous person I Suppose it’s?
We have all heard of the Undertake-a-Freeway or Sponsor-a-Freeway applications began within the Nineteen Eighties. People, organizations, and firms or companies volunteer to maintain a mile-long stretch of a freeway clear and litter-free in trade for his or her identify on an indication.
I at all times look at these indicators because it’s arduous to overlook them. It type of sucks when that stretch of freeway is not clear and maintained however over all it is a program that appears to work. The Division of Transportation for every state can pull the volunteers signal if they do not comply anyway opening it as much as a brand new group or particular person.
Anyway, after I noticed this signal whereas driving in Westchester County, New York on the southbound facet of 684 about half-hour north of NYC I took a double-take and the subsequent day pulled over and snapped some pictures.
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Is that this who I believe it’s? Is it only a man with the identical identify or is it THE Clive Davis. You already know, the Clive who’s a world well-known, five-time Grammy profitable file producer who found and signed Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Santana, and Barry Manilow to call just a few and that does not even embody these signed to his file labels.
He is additionally within the Rock-and-Roll Corridor of Fame as a non-performer.
The 92 yr outdated rock star in his personal proper is presently the Chief Artistic Officer with Sony Music Leisure in case you had been questioning. This after a profession working Columbia Data and RCA amongst different labels with an infinite quantity of expertise.
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So is it THE Clive Davis? Nicely it might make sense since he lives in Westchester within the city of Pound Ridge in line with the Bedford and New Canaan Journal.
To solidify it although it took me a easy Google search confirmed with a Rolling Stone article. Clive has been sponsoring this stretch of freeway, and one other stretch on the northbound facet of 684 as early as 2008.
Clearly that is old-fashioned, frequent data for people who dwell on this space and drive 684 on a regular basis. I assume which means it’ll now turn into second nature for me to see the signal, too.
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In line with Psychological Floss, Barbra Streisand and Robin Williams are two different celebrities which have adopted highways as soon as upon a time.
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