Ghost signs

[tonyb]

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Oh … if you get a chance to stop in at the Rocking Chair Cafe, try the “Famous Fresh Side” with your eggs. Deep fried fresh pork belly. Good stuff …

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The less the cardiologists would approve, the tastier it is.

 

[BobHufford]

Raleigh tobacco sign used to cover a hole. Exposed as the facade on this old building in Willow Springs, Missouri begins to crumble away.

 

[BobHufford]

Baxter Springs, Kansas

 

[BobHufford]

Cofer's Clothing. Buffalo, Missouri. 1933 - 1961.

 

[BobHufford]

This sign was exposed after a fire destroyed a building just off the courthouse square last year in West Plains, Missouri.

 

[Blackthorn]

Great signs, Bob!

 

[Frunobulax]

This isn't really a ghost sign, as it's new, but I made a stop at Little Fish brewing downtown the other day and found this on the old building they're in.

It matches the style of some of the old ghost signs in town, which is pretty cool.

 

[Fading Fast]

This isn't really a ghost sign, as it's new, but I made a stop at Little Fish brewing downtown the other day and found this on the old building they're in.

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It matches the style of some of the old ghost signs in town, which is pretty cool.

Agreed, for a new sign, that is really well done.

 

[Blackthorn]

It definitely carries on the flavor of the vintage signs.

 

[BobHufford]

This isn't really a ghost sign, as it's new, but I made a stop at Little Fish brewing downtown the other day and found this on the old building they're in.

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It matches the style of some of the old ghost signs in town, which is pretty cool.

Much better than the "ghosting" done to the former Frisco (BNSF) Railroad office building here in Springfield, MO.

 

[tonyb]

 

[dh66]

 

[Blackthorn]

In Savanah GA

 

[Blackthorn]

ST Augustine, FL

 

[BobHufford]

Oooh … a ghost sign!

Well — sort of. Dammit!

 

[tonyb]

 

[tonyb]

Oooh … a ghost sign!

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Well — sort of. Dammit!

You kinda hate to see such a lost opportunity. And it cost real money to do it, too.

 

[BobHufford]

You kinda hate to see such a lost opportunity. And it cost real money to do it, too.

The bottom is the before photo — from a prior pass of the Google Earth camera car. I thought it was a ghostly sign when I took the top photo, but it was just a difference in weathering of the brick. The loss here is the closing of another small town pharmacy.

 

[BobHufford]

Calico Rock, Arkansas.

 

[tonyb]

Snyder, Texas, according to the source I lifted this from …