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Ghost signs

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Seemed like the best thread for this one. Definitely a ghost of it's former self
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This old store building has been gone for a few years now (replaced by the boom of 4-story apartment buildings 10-feet from the street that have been popping up around Missouri State University lately). At one point I was dreaming of putting in a bar/bar-b-que joint and keeping a version of the original name of Flummerfelt's (Meat) Market (the ghostier ghost at the top). Sadly it was on the wrong side of the street from the protected district.

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I have a modest collection of old commercial signage, with an emphasis of sorts on soda pop stuff. My searching out a genuine old 7-Up sign (fakes abound) for a reasonable price has so far been unsuccessful. I’d gladly have one in that condition (a removable one, on steel), because, as I’ve noted before, I don’t object to this kinda stuff showing that it was actually used for its intended purpose.

Alas, it appears that others are coming around to my way of seeing things. Honest patina on this vintage stuff — signs, motor vehicles, etc. — is becoming a selling point.

There goes the neighborhood.
 
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My searching out a genuine old 7-Up sign (fakes abound) for a reasonable price has so far been unsuccessful.

I have a large plastic outdoor 7-Up sign that I bought 20 years ago for $10 at a Boy Scout Garage Sale. I haven't done anything with it, but it might end up in my barn if my daughter doesn't take it (she's expressed interest). This one is similar. Mine references a cafe with "Ozark" in the name (I can't remember exactly). I just have the plastic, not the light can.

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That was the start of the whole "Un-cola" campaign that carried 7up thru the 70s -- there was a neighborhood grocery joint near here that had a back-lit plastic sign in that style well into the 2010s before somebody finally put a rock into it.

I miss "You Like It -- It Likes You." I used to see that on the bottles and would sit there and wonder what it was all supposed to mean. Imagine when I finally found out it was supposed to be a reference to 7up as a hangover cure.
 
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7-Up was long advertised as a healthful alternative to other beverages. I’ve seen old (like, very old) print ads suggesting it be given to infants. It was once promoted as a good mixer with milk.

Echoes of that carried into much more recent times. Remember “crisp and clean and no caffeine”?
 
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7-Up was long advertised as a healthful alternative to other beverages. I’ve seen old (like, very old) print ads suggesting it be given to infants. It was once promoted as a good mixer with milk.

Echoes of that carried into much more recent times. Remember “crisp and clean and no caffeine”?


My mother, an RN, would give us kids room temperature 7-Up if we had an upset tummy. I'm sure this was a holdover from those days.
 

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