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Article: That is so tacky But it's more than welcome in Joe's garage
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- December 14, 2003
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In Joe's garage, there's a 6-foot-tall shelving unit used to hold
bug spray and weed killer sold by Ortho as Lock 'N Spray. The top of
the display looks like the top of a bottle of weed killer.
Joe Neal rescued the purple and yellow display from a Dumpster six
years ago when he worked at Central Garden & Pet Co. Today, he is the
maintenance man in downtown Bloomington at the Monroe Center, another
good place to find discards for the garage.
Joe's garage is an overstimulating, controlled chaos with a
mammoth collection of mainly guy stuff. It is wall to wall with items
that lack dollar value but maximize the amusement for visitors.
He has an abundance of beer signs, including one for Old ...