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Thursday marks 55th anniversary of Vermont banning roadside billboards

55 years ago Thursday, Vermont became the first state in the United States to ban roadside billboards.

Good Citizen Stories: Passing Vermont s Billboard Ban

Courtesy Of Riehle Family Governor Phil Hoff signing the billboard bill into law. Ted Riehle is standing on the right. Then-representative Tom Salmon, House minority leader, is standing on the left. If you ve lived or traveled outside of Vermont, you ve surely seen plenty of billboards. These giant signs appear in red states and blue states alike, towering over farm fields and assailing passersby from atop skyscrapers. Today they re often digital and animated to catch your eye. But you won t find any such outdoor advertisements in Vermont the Green Mountain State outlawed them in 1968, one of only four states in the U.S. to do so; the others are Hawaii, Alaska and Maine.

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