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                                                                     EXHIBIT 5.2


                      [Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond,
                       McCowan & Jarman, LLP letterhead]


                                November 6, 1997




Lamar Advertising Company
5551 Corporate Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808

     We are furnishing this opinion in connection with the Registration
Statement of Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), filed on November 7, 1997 by Lamar
Advertising Company (the "Company") and certain subsidiaries of the Company
listed as Additional Registrants in the Registration Statement (the "Subsidiary
Guarantors") relating to the offer to exchange $200,000,000 aggregate principal
amount of 8 5/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the "Exchange Notes") for
the outstanding $200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 8 5/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the "Existing Notes"). The Existing Notes were, and
the Exchange Notes will be, issued and sold by the Company and guaranteed (the
"Guarantees") by the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to an Indenture (the
"Indenture") between the Company and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as
trustee (the "Trustee"), the form of which was filed as an exhibit to the
Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on September 27, 1997. The exchange will be made pursuant to an
exchange offer contemplated by the Registration Statement.

     We have acted as corporate counsel in connection with the Registration
Statement and are familiar with the proceedings taken by the Company and the
Subsidiary Guarantors in connection with the authorization, issuance and sale of
the Existing Notes, the Exchange Notes and the Guarantees. We have made such
examination as we consider necessary to render this opinion.

     Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:

     1.  Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors has been duly organized and is
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
organization, with full power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its
Guarantee.

     2.  The Guarantees have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by
each of the Subsidiary Guarantors, and no consent or approval of any court or
governmental agency or body is required for such execution and delivery except
consents or approvals as may be required under federal securities laws or under
state securities or Blue Sky laws.

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as a part of the
Registration Statement and to the reference to our Firm under the caption
"Legal Matters" in the Prospectus filed as part thereof.


                              Very truly yours,

                              KEAN, MILLER, HAWTHORNE,
                              D'ARMOND, McCOWAN & JARMAN, L.L.P.

                              By: /s/ Ben R. Miller, Jr.
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                              Ben R. Miller, Jr.