No Climbing ped of the Edith Green Wendel White building

Leave it to the federal government to come up with such a fancy cast metal ped sign. That ped sure is taking a tumble though.

Peds of Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington

At some point in the redevelopment of Pike Place Market someone had some fun with peds.

Most note worthy is a public bathroom in one of the lower levels but there are some other little fun conceits here and there.

This last photo is one of a vernacular ped, a homemade "shopping" ped in a alley of Pike Place Market.

Use extreme caution

Good advice for life in general. What's with patriarchal peds associating with extra striding walking man barrel-chested ped. And 70's-era ten-speed peds. Oh and those Keith Harring-esque exclamation/alarm marks above the peds. Things are happening. 

On the murky origins of my ped obsession, Motorist meets profile people

This one postcard may be the single most important element of my ped obsession. It came into my life at an impressionable age (probably around 1984) and somehow stuck in the murky recesses. It turned up on a recent visit to my parent's house in a box of old high school items. In an instant, it all came together. Curse you postcard guy, Tom Sadowski.

Buy more postcards, people (and peds).

Hey Ped! No pooping without a toilet

Yes, That's a ped crapping in a park. No park-pooping, ped!

Is this the greatest ped sign ever?

Mission District, San Francisco

Mixed up world of peds

Arms-akimbo no-loitering ped and bicycling ped consorting with a profile (non-ped) skate boarder. What's the world coming to? 

Maybe this would only happen in the strange mixed-up cultural landscape that is downtown Anchorage, Alaska?

Big ticket ped

My goodness, Ped. What a big ticket you have?

Bike lock

 

Smart Park parking garage. Portland, Ore.