Showing posts with label Ghost Signs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ghost Signs. Show all posts

Sunday, October 7, 2012

More of Cape Girardeau

 Coca-Cola Ghost Sign!
 Stag Beer Ghost Sign!
 Spooky Abandoned Restaurant! Inside and Out!
 And finally, the Cape Wiggery Shop, sadly defunct but with its sign intact.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Cabinet of Dr. Sweeney, plus Bonus Ghost Sign

 A couple of years ago my filmmaker friend Mark W. Stone took me on a tour of the neighborhood where Dr. Francis Sweeney, almost certainly Cleveland's infamous Torso Killer, had his practice.
 Which building it was is impossible to say at this point, but these were the buildings that held those sorts of offices at that time.
 This one still houses some medical offices.
 On the right, a library converted into a chapel.....

 And here, windows both broken and boarded up.
And finally, a really nice Ghost Sign, in multiple languages (Czech?) advertising Mail Pouch tobacco.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Ghost Signs, Beverage-Related

 The first two were taken in Nice, France in 1987. I don't know if they really qualify as Ghost Signs since they're painted on glass, but the loveliness of their deterioration is similar. As always, click to enlarge!
And this one is from Brussels in 1982--too modern to be a proper Ghost Sign, perhaps (the number at the bottom reads 1/23/68, which could be a date, though in Europe it's usually Day/Month/Year.)