Vanessa Bolano WGNO News

January 13, 2012
Uptown—

If you take a drive up South Claiborne Uptown, you may have noticed the ever changing signs at Nashville. Students at McMain Secondary have poured their hearts and souls into them. Vanessa Bolano takes us behind the scenes.

This season students from McMain Secondary have done more than just root for the saints. Thanks to talented teacher Natalie Hutzler Maloney they're adding flare to the corner of South Claiborne and Nashville Uptown.

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“We do it every week. Monday we draw, and Tuesday we prime, and Wednesday we paint, and Thursday we hang.,” says Maloney, “When you have things going like Saints players moving, and you have to think about the light and the shadow, and making one player look like the real guy; that takes a while.”

This week they take a stab at the San Francisco by painting players in a mining carts headed for disaster, and using the slogan "86 the 49ers," or get rid of them!

The signs have become tradition at McMain dating back two seasons.

“We started making paper banners out of bulletin boards paper and putting them out on the front fence and they didn't hold up to weather. We then we started going to Loews and buying painters tarps, but none of them were this long, so we started stitching them. This year we were able to contact a gentleman in Chalmette who cut these pieces of canvas in 30 ft lengths.”

And you better believe his phone will be ringing with a request for a supersized canvas once our boys make it to the Super Bowl!