Tiles in New Mexico

In intersections throughout downtown Albuquerque, I have discovered six different tiles, each with a different House of Hades message.
Here are some of the various tiles I've found:

This was the very first tile I found, with the help of this Alibi article.  After reading the article, I decided to go check it out, unknowingly starting myself out on a life of Toynbee hunting.  As you can see, this tile has undergone a lot of traffic wear, but the original message is most likely the same House of Hades message I mentioned before.  Unfortunately, the date and sub-message (the small message at the bottom of the tile) have entirely worn off.  At the top right, you can see the signature "sexy lady legs", which were found on some of the original Philly tiles as well as the newer copy-cats.  The legs, along with the other side images, were probably a decorative attachment meant to draw a person's attention to the tile.

After I found the first tile, I began going on tile hunts to search for more.  I was confident that if there was one, there could be others, and sure enough, I found five more soon afterwards.  The next tile I found was this one:

As you can see, this tile is far more intact than the first, implying that it has been laid more recently.  Its message is slightly different from the other House of Hades tiles: Instead of the usual "American media in society" it reads "the media machine." Once again we see the recurring "one man" theme, though it's unclear whether this is the same man, a different man, or simply a nod to the original "one man."  The sub-message, "To juz czas!" means "It's about time!" in Polish.  Several other tiles also discuss the concept of time-- as you can see, the side image on this tile is an hourglass, and below you'll see tiles featuring the sub-messages "Time's up!" and "Well it's getting kind of late but it's been fun."

Featuring a different variation of the traditional "House of Hades" text, this tile also plays off the "resurrection of Toynbee's ideas" message from the original tiles.  The sub-message reads, "The media brass have signed their own death warrant."  Both the old and new tiles are very anti-media: Some tiles read, "Tiles made from the ground bones of dead journalists" and "One man versus American media in society".  According to some belief, this hatred of the media began when the original tiler tried to spread his ideas of resurrection through popular news sources and was rejected.  This tile is also unique in that it has no side image at all, and its text color is yellow, which is a variation of the usual red and blue.

This tile contains the same "One man versus American media in society" message as the ones shown above.  The side image is an ashtray, which, along with the traffic light image below, has been spotted on many other tiles across America.  The ashtray could be symbolic of death, which would correspond with the sub-message "Time's up!"

The traffic light shown here is, along with the sexy lady legs, the most common side image on these newer copy-cat tiles.  We also see a slight variation in text color here with green instead of blue.

This final tile is quite grubby from traffic wear, so the sub-message is nearly impossible to read.  From the words that are visible, however, it appears to be the same "death warrant" message shown above.  The tile also has some more intact legs as well as a unique column of dots on the left side.

Though I originally assumed that these tiles were a local phenomena-- an artist's project, perhaps, or created by a student at the nearby university as a tribute to the original tiler-- I later learned that these same tiles had appeared all over the United States.  It's impossible to say whether these were created by the same tiler or a new one, however.  Though the style is slightly different and the same person laying these tiles in the 80's would most likely be too old to still be doing it, the mystery will live on until we can conclusively discover the tiler's identity.