Every other friday at 6:00 pm, I'll post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.'

This time, it's this image of the "Christ the Redeemer" statue at the top of Corcovado mountain. This is actually a clue. Do you know where it is?

If you know, enter your response in the comments!

I'll reveal the answer in two Fridays, when I post a new game.

Two weeks ago, I posted this sign boasting colorfully of Color TV by RCA.. This sign actually shows up at least two places in Culver City, but if you start looking, you'll actually see it all the time out in front of older motels in Los Angeles. The particular image I posted was from outside the Culver Motel at 11162 Culver Boulevard.

There's also one outside the retro-cool Deano's Motel on Sepulveda, which happens to have one the best signs in the city.

This Gadgets Page blog talks about seeing the same sign in Yosemite, and asks some of the same questions I have:

These signs must have subsidized hotels somehow. Did RCA provide free or discounted television sets to motels that proudly displayed these signs? Maybe the hotel owners actually had to PAY to advertise for RCA just to compete.

RCA.com has this bit of information, which helps us place the vintage of these signs in the late 50s or early 60s:

Although RCA was not the first on the market with color television, it was the eventual winner in the color TV standards race. CBS had developed an awkward mechanical system for color TV reproduction, but RCA’s all-electronic, compatible color TV system was declared the U.S. standard in December 1953. Promotion of color television broadcasts began within a few weeks. The Rose Bowl Parade was shown in color on January 1, 1954, although few people had access to color receivers. The first RCA consumer color televisions were produced in March 1954, a 12-inch screen in a box cabinet with a hefty $1,000 price tag. By 1960, there were half a million color TV sets in use, and more than two-thirds of NBC’s prime-time nightly broadcasts were “colorcast” during the 1962-63 season.

If anyone has any insight into these signs, I would love to hear it.