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Andre the Giant Has A Posse

An original "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" sticker on a trash can in Providence's Nice Slice pizzeria.
Davis Dunavin / WSHU
An original "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" sticker on a trash can in Providence's Nice Slice pizzeria.

Back in the summer of 1989, a lot of weird little stickers appeared on the streets of Providence, Rhode Island. They were on walls, trash cans and utility poles. You’d find them outside bars, record stores and skate shops. They were all the same, a grainy black-and-white picture of a bulky scowling man, with the words: “Andre the Giant has a Posse.”

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.