There’s a girl atop a billboard just past George Motes Auto Group at 2500 East Harding Drive, but she’s not the one made famous in country singer Del Reeves’ 1965 hit, “Girl on the Billboard.”
The girl in Reeves’ song was said to be “wearin’ nothin’ but a smile and a towel” in a “picture on a billboard in a field by the big old highway.”
The girl here is actually a mannequin, and she’s wearing a yellow blouse and black skirt while her black hair waves in the wind as she faces east-bound motorists with her left leg crossing her right leg.
A male mannequin has also been placed atop another billboard within the city.
The Pine Bluff Police Department is aware of the dummy, Captain Greg Shapiro said Thursday night, as the matter has been reported in several calls to the Metropolitan Emergency Communications Association (MECA). Shapiro said he doesn’t think the presence of the mannequin is a criminal matter, and he’s not certain of its “standing” – or “setting” – with city billboard regulations.