A well-known “See Rock City” barn has received a fresh coat of paint to celebrate Rock City’s 90 th anniversary year, just completed in Fort Payne, Al., by Rock City’s innovation team ...

“See Rock City” was scrawled on Army PX’s in Vietnam, ... 81, who spent more than 30 years painting the barn signs free-hand. At first he paid farmers with Rock City souvenirs, ...

Jim stopped painting Rock City barns in 1966 when he got married and did not want to travel as much. About five years ago, Don Parris started painting Rock City barns again with Jim, though the ...

But Byers’ “See Rock City” barns are fading into history. Lady Bird Johnson’s Highway Beautification Act of 1965 curtailed painting new barn roofs with Rock City slogans, and even required ...

Most of the barns were painted by Clark Byers of Chattanooga, who spent 30 years painting such slogans as "The Eighth Wonder of the World" and "When You See Rock City, You See the Best" on roofs ...

ATLANTA -- Clark Byers, who for three decades painted "See Rock City" on more than 900 barns from Michigan to Florida, died Thursday. He was 89 and lived in Trenton, Ga. Byers was hospitalized last… ...

By 1998, there were only about 200 See Rock City barns left, and that number has decreased to only about 100 today. Of those, only about 10 are left in Alabama.

Over the course of 80 years, the unusual "See Rock City" advertising campaign led to as many as 900 painted barn roofs at its peak with surprisingly effective results. But as Americans turned to ...