Midget contemplates kicking crocodile ass and other wall-art shoe tributes: Kenny Be's Sign Language

Valverde: The hand-painted sign pictured above covers the entire east wall of El Nuevo Rancho Grande on West Alameda at Clay Street. The artist leaves it up to the viewer's imagination to decide whether the midget gets eaten or the gator gets made into a new pair of boots. See...

By Kenny Be

April 28, 2010

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Valverde: The hand-painted sign pictured above covers the entire east wall of El Nuevo Rancho Grande on West Alameda at Clay Street. The artist leaves it up to the viewer's imagination to decide whether the midget gets eaten or the gator gets made into a new pair of boots.

See the special store where Tebow, Tulo and Ty can buy their athletic pumps below:

Sun Valley: Including a ladies pump in the ATLETIC SHOES sign pictured above shows that something, besides the letter 'h' in athletic, has been lost in translation.

Five Points: Somewhere a collector is pooping in his Pepsi pants! Had the owner of the shop pictured above just gone out and spent $25 on a piece of plywood to paint her little black slipper, she could have removed the vintage metal and enamel Pepsi-Cola sign and sold it on eBay for over a thousand dollars.

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