Post #571294 by Holepuncher on Sat, Jan 8, 2011 10:15 PM

I've been lugging that sign around for 34 years and the funny thing is I've never displayed it. When I pulled it off the Pago Pago building it was only to preserve the old rudder, and I don't really know why I did it. I don't collect anything and I have no interest in Pago Pago, tiki stuff, or old boats. It just seemed like the thing to do.

I had to scale the building without a ladder so I parked my convertible near the building and climbed on the trunk to get high enough to grab the security bars on a window and pulled myself up. Locking one leg into the bars I leaned out and with one hand unscrewed the one remaining screw that it was hanging from, and with the other I held onto the rudder. When that screw let go I couldn't believe how heavy it was and the damned thing almost peeled me off the wall. If my car hadn't been right underneath me I would have dropped it, but as that wasn't an option I wrestled it down. It's followed me ever since. I'm thinking it's somebody else's turn to babysit this white elephant.