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Newspaper Carpark

Friday, 28th April 2006 by

Now this is truly “Large Type” – Perscombinatie printing works in Amsterdam print a lot of newspapers, so when they were decorating the car park they opted for a neat newspaper-like 6 column layout. Brilliant! Submitter “Koos van den Hout” helpfully provided us with a translation for the headlines: “Entree” = “Entrance” “Afhalen kranten” = “Pick-up newspapers” “Parkeren vrachtwagens tot 5m” = “Parking trucks up to 5 metres” “Papier” =…

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