lloyd ctr

Originally uploaded by dieselboi.

Last week, before the huge shopping rush at Lloyd Center, I visited during lunch to pick up some items. My strategy was to get things early, but still take advantage of the proposed sales. When I was exiting Sears and walking up NE Multnomah, I saw these boxes that looked like letter boxes of yore. When I got closer, I realized they indeed had items in them, but the items were a bit strange. The first one had a teddy bear, the second, a rearview mirror and fuzzy dice and the third, a piggy bank. On each of them were words engraved. For the piggy bank, it was the following:

Urban Americans
Who spend 22% of
Their lives shopping
List as their
Second favorite
Passtime

Entertainment
Utilitarian
Social
Obsessive

The next installation had a shopping bag encased with the following inscription:

Shopping bag
The paper
Shopping bag
Was invented in
Boston, MA
In 1872

At Lloyd Center
An average of
4690 shopping
Bags are
Dispensed each
Working day

Wow, what a statement. There wasn’t any info I could find on whose installation this is. I had never really noticed it, but then again, I don’t frequent the mall all that much. Anyone know the origins of this? Who the artist is?