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By Bob Dyer
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 07:08 p.m. EDT, Apr 30, 2009
The Fred Martin ''Car Guys'' have spent a fortune promoting their products, so they know what tends to be effective. And they're pretty sure they wouldn't have promoted a school system the way they saw it promoted the other day.
By geographical happenstance, the Car Guys — aka brothers Adam and Duane Huff — are located directly across the street from a porn palace.
''ADULT VIDEOS,'' blares a big, purple neon sign on a building at the interchange of Interstate 76 and Barber Road, on the Norton-Barberton border.
''Magazines. Novelties. 25-cent private viewing booths.''
On a recent Saturday morning, one of the porn customers appeared to be the driver of a big yellow bus with ''Canton City Schools'' on the side — and kids on board.
Understandably, Duane Huff found that a bit disconcerting.
It would be one thing, he said, if the bus had suffered a mechanical breakdown and had to limp into the nearest parking lot. But it didn't, and ''that's not copacetic with me.''
Nor with a lot of other people.
Huff's nephew, Cody Huff, works at the dealership and frequently carries a digital camera because he's in charge of photographing used cars for advertisements. He fired up his camera and documented the occasion (as you can see in the accompanying photo).
The porn shop apparently was open at the time, because the sign on the front door says it's open almost all of the time — Monday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to midnight.
So ... exactly what kind of field trips are Canton students taking these days?
''We had a baseball team going to Kenmore,'' said Robyn Matulich, spokeswoman for Canton City Schools.
''They got lost and got off the freeway. The driver saw an empty lot where she could turn around. The coach got off the bus to walk across the street to get directions [in the showroom]. He was in there quite a long time because they were Googling directions.''
The driver couldn't have pulled into the dealership?
''They needed a space big enough to turn that bus around,'' Matulich replied. ''And the empty lot provided her that space.''
Fine, but there are a couple of other huge parking lots about 400 yards to the south, on the same side of the street. She couldn't have driven a little farther to avoid parking next to a prominent porn store?
''She didn't realize it. They were lost and just needed to get to the game on time,'' Matulich said.
I'm not sure how you fail to notice those big, purple signs — not to mention the huge yellow-and-black ''ADULT'' sign towering over the interchange atop two huge poles.
Maybe the bus driver's lack of awareness rubbed off on the baseball team. Later that day, Canton Timken lost both ends of its doubleheader.
Bob Dyer's Streets column appears each Friday. He can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com
The Fred Martin ''Car Guys'' have spent a fortune promoting their products, so they know what tends to be effective. And they're pretty sure they wouldn't have promoted a school system the way they saw it promoted the other day.
By geographical happenstance, the Car Guys — aka brothers Adam and Duane Huff — are located directly across the street from a porn palace.
''ADULT VIDEOS,'' blares a big, purple neon sign on a building at the interchange of Interstate 76 and Barber Road, on the Norton-Barberton border.
''Magazines. Novelties. 25-cent private viewing booths.''
On a recent Saturday morning, one of the porn customers appeared to be the driver of a big yellow bus with ''Canton City Schools'' on the side — and kids on board.
Understandably, Duane Huff found that a bit disconcerting.
It would be one thing, he said, if the bus had suffered a mechanical breakdown and had to limp into the nearest parking lot. But it didn't, and ''that's not copacetic with me.''
Nor with a lot of other people.
Huff's nephew, Cody Huff, works at the dealership and frequently carries a digital camera because he's in charge of photographing used cars for advertisements. He fired up his camera and documented the occasion (as you can see in the accompanying photo).
The porn shop apparently was open at the time, because the sign on the front door says it's open almost all of the time — Monday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to midnight.
So ... exactly what kind of field trips are Canton students taking these days?
''We had a baseball team going to Kenmore,'' said Robyn Matulich, spokeswoman for Canton City Schools.
''They got lost and got off the freeway. The driver saw an empty lot where she could turn around. The coach got off the bus to walk across the street to get directions [in the showroom]. He was in there quite a long time because they were Googling directions.''
The driver couldn't have pulled into the dealership?
''They needed a space big enough to turn that bus around,'' Matulich replied. ''And the empty lot provided her that space.''
Fine, but there are a couple of other huge parking lots about 400 yards to the south, on the same side of the street. She couldn't have driven a little farther to avoid parking next to a prominent porn store?
''She didn't realize it. They were lost and just needed to get to the game on time,'' Matulich said.
I'm not sure how you fail to notice those big, purple signs — not to mention the huge yellow-and-black ''ADULT'' sign towering over the interchange atop two huge poles.
Maybe the bus driver's lack of awareness rubbed off on the baseball team. Later that day, Canton Timken lost both ends of its doubleheader.
Bob Dyer's Streets column appears each Friday. He can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com
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