Vince Stromberg thinks he's doing a better job than me -- whirling his surfboard-size sign like a helicopter blade near the Russell Road onramp to the Las Vegas Beltway. While the only thing I spin ...

“We hate it when you call it sign twirlers,” says Caleb Jordan, who has worked in the industry six years and is the general manager for AArrow Advertising. Come blistering heat or pouring rain, the ...

KENT, Wash. — You've seen them on local street corners, spinning their messages. But did you know that these sign spinners are part of an elite crew that undergoes training at a little-known facility ...

Kendric Washington was in his sophomore year of high school when he saw his first sign spinner. Or at least, his first real sign spinner—someone who didn’t stand placidly in place twirling a sign ...

There a great deal of concern about automation eliminating human jobs. Spinning a sign seems to boost the attention that people give to signs by about 80%. Sign spinners are paid about $50 to 150 per ...

Standing on a concrete island at the entrance to a Gahanna strip center, Tito Salih flipped a 6-foot-long sign into the air — “Pools Plus Now Open” — and watched it twirl one, two, three times before ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

ATLANTA — We’re less than 200 days away from the Summer Olympics where some of the best athletes in the world will compete for gold. But middle-January brings a lesser-known world competition for sign ...

They're a familiar site at many a busy intersection: the helicopter, the kick-flip, the Bruce Lee - all manner of swirling, twirling and spinning "tricks" to draw drivers' attention to a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, Clint Hartman, a sign spinner from Portland, Ore., performs a routine in downtown Las ...