March 1993 was my first trip to Las Vegas. We were outside the Flamingo Hotel, across from Caesars Palace. I stop to notice a statue hailing visitors just to the right of the gentleman with the hat and his all important toothpick. I am facing the Flamingo casino entrance as this character walks by. He had a kind of timeless look, with the hat, glasses and the knit shirt. He’s just the cool customer I was hoping for! He makes the scene and gives it a sense of scale. There are people walking by in the reflection, as well as the ever-present construction on the Las Vegas Strip. The timeless Moody Blues were playing at Caesars. This was the beginning, I think, of musical acts that I thought were cool as a kid that were playing Vegas, something unthinkable when I was a teenager in the 70’s. Now all the musical dinosaurs of my childhood play there and as icons!

I love the art deco styles in Miami Beach. The inspiration was a trip there with my wife Dana a number of years ago. I didn’t know much about Miami Beach other than the TV show Miami Vice. I was enthralled by the architecture, which had a real frozen-in-time feel. I had the best coffee I’ve ever had anywhere in Miami Beach.

The facial quality of the truck was the first thing that caught my eye. I also loved the handmade sign. I feel the most fun thing about this subject was that I found it in Downtown Boston, not on some waterfront in Maine or Cape Cod!