Piggly Wiggly - Guin, Alabama, U.S.A.
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N 33° 58.011 W 087° 54.644
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Painted on side of piggly wiggly store
Waymark Code: WMF813
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2012
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The composition draws the viewer in from the center with a '50's model car. The left contains an oversized T.V. tray that functions as the frame to a butcher scene. The cover is fliped back and drawes the eye to the flowing receipt showing prices of the good from the area. The right side starts a flowing American flag wraping around the edge of the original building of Piggly Wiggly The end of the flag highlights "Joe's picks of the week". The final scene shows the signature "carry out service". It is here you see a young man carrying a happy customer's groceries to her car.
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All in a Name
Saunders' reason for choosing the intriguing name Piggly Wiggly ® remains a mystery; he was curiously reluctant to explain its origin. One story is that he saw from a train window several little pigs struggling to get under a fence, and the rhyming name occurred to him then. Someone once asked him why he had chosen such an unusual name for his organization, and Saunders' reply was, "So people will ask that very question." He wanted and found a name that would be talked about and remembered.
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The mural picture is from the '50's.