Ghost signs

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1946, Chicago. Ida Wyman

Cheers!

Dan

How much do you want to have lunch in "The Glorified Hamburger? Great looking place.

 

[Bushman]

Sign for apartments and pizza on the side of this one that I pass on my way to class:

 

[dh66]

 

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[Bamaboots]

Nice, Dale. Now that last one is a true 'ghost' sign.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

I would call it a "skeleton" sign. Either is good for the upcoming Halloween

 

[1mach1]

Pine Bowl is super sweet, Dale!

 

[dh66]

Thanks guys.
Harv, the Pine Bowl is kind of bittersweet to me. I grew up near there, and bowled a few frames and emptied a few pitchers back in the day.

 

[BobHufford]

Dale,

I came to post this and what do I see but Snortin' Nortin on this page!

I went to pick up my log splitter from the repair shop and they had me pull around back. This trailer body was being used for storage.

I remember touring Campbell 66 while in Cub Scouts and watching one of these trailers being painted by hand. The painter could knock out Nortin's image in just a few minutes.

I have a windbreaker with that logo and motto on it. My parents have a photo on their wall (from their church directory) in which my Dad is wearing a camel hair jacket with this logo and motto and standing behind my mother. Not sure if he meant for that to happen ... but he probably did.

I used to work in the restaurant owned by the folks that inherited the trucking company (until they went to prison for embezzlement). On a positive note the son-in-law owner was a PBR drinker!

 

[dh66]

Very cool, Bob! I guess you're a little closer to the source than I am. Not real sure what's up with him being down here, I guess they must've had a branch office at one time. That area of town is/mostly was home to a lot of trucking business way back when. I remember as a kid seeing ol' Norton all over the place. I guess it must've been back in the late 70s when they started disappearing. I had two uncles who were truckers back when I was growing up, don't know if either ever drove for Campbell's, but I know my brother and cousins and I were some die hard tractor trailer watchers as kids.

 

[dh66]

I came to post this and what do I see but Snortin' Nortin on this page!

https://youtu.be/X4HQyqc-aVU

 

[BobHufford]

Thanks for that YouTube link Dale. I was wondering what was going on ...

 

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I'm posting this new sign here as it is done in a Golden Era style, painted on the brick wall of a Golden Era (or earlier) building.

That said, is there an appetite to start a new thread - modern signs done in a Golden Era style (I posted awhile back about a Turnbull and Asser sign that was new but redolent of classic Golden Era signs)?

The two interesting things about the below sign is, one, its style and scope - really nice and very GE in feel. And, two, this pub - which I've been to a few times and is okay, not great - was the location of the first ever TGI Fridays. I only learned that recently as TGI Fridays had some sort of anniversary and they interviewed the original owner (he had long since sold the chain) and he was telling how he started it as a friendly neighborhood pub that was the kind of place he'd want to go to. It's always fun to learn how most of these behemoth chains started as tiny places - and many of them weren't intended to be chains.

The really cool new, vintage-inspired sign


And a shot of the same pub today that was the original TGI Fridays

 

[1mach1]

Richmond, VA

 

[dh66]

Nice one, Harv!

 

[1mach1]

Thanks Dale. Richmond is full of this stuff.

 

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[hatsRme]

Maybe not the classic "painted on brick" sign, but going through some photos on an unidentified SD chip this week, this photo (dated 2011) showed up. I don't know who took it; maybe one of my daughters with me in mind. The area code on the tiny sign above the door (on the right side) is for NYC, so I'm hoping Besdor or another indigenous New Yorker will remember where this was, or is. Just curious!!

 

[1mach1]

Shockoe Bottom. Richmond, VA