File:1982 - WSAN Billboard Sitters.jpg
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English: Michael MacKay (left), Ron Kistter (Center) and Dalton Young (Right) camped on a billboard at the MacArthur Road exit of Route 22 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. They were participating in a contest sponsored by local radio station WSAN-AM to win an $18,000 mobile home. The contestants lived in tents, supported by friends and families while living on the billboard.
The billboard contest began Sept. 20, 1982, when the contestants made the 25-foot climb up a ladder and settled onto the platform that would become their new home through the fall and winter, and for two of the men, the spring. By Christmas Day 1982, the trio had survived 96 days of tent life. An additional 165 days would pass before Kistler and MacKay would emerge winners in a negotiated end to the contest after 261 days. (Young would be forced off the billboard on March 23, 1983 after being arrested for selling marijuana from the billboard to an undercover police officer.) |
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