The Biggest Fails in License Plate History
Source: Smithsonian
(© Automobile License Plate Collectors Association) In 1976, Alaska adopted an illustration of a brown bear from the Complete Book of Hunting. Curiously, officials did not obtain permission from the artist, Douglas Allen, who had never been to Alaska and had sketched the creature at the Bronx Zoo. While some loved the design, an Anchorage Daily News columnist reported that others thought the bear looked like a…