... you flip the picture around, you can sort of read the door sign. I can make out:
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Also, wingtips apparently were in style.
Sure Sign Of the Season: this picture on Shorpy (Thanks, Dave) and "A Christmas ...
... a condo building). I think the building behind the Pabst sign at the right edge of the sign is the Chicago Tribune building, and across from it (underneath the main ...
... see the name of Marie Lloyd above the Francis Wilson sign. She was the most famous and highest paid entertainer on the British ... have Marie Lloyd, known for her suggestive lyrics .
Sign! "Sign, Sign everywhere a sign, blocking out the scenery breaking my ...
... York, 1905. "Piles of snow on Broadway after storm." Funny-sign photobomb! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. ... steel skyscraper is going up in its place.
A Sign Planted in a Heap of Irony "Earlaps" on a straw boater -- now that's ...
... everyone knows -- the cheese stands alone.
Handmade Sign That's a pretty awesomely done home-made sign. No FastSigns around back then.
[These would have been the work of a ...
... seen these words "this may be your church" on a church sign before. Kind of interesting and also the open window at one of the stained glass panels.
I suppose the large sign is more effective than placing a classified ad reading" "Found. One ...
... negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
Sign Painters This is a good example of the sign painter's art. I wonder if the Coca-Cola company furnished a template to ...
... stood in front of the Apex Liquor Store.
The Jesus sign I think the Jesus sign says, "Jesus the light of the world." I think it would only be a ...
November 1937. Neon sign for Hector’s Palace of Sweets Cafe in Crosby, North Dakota. View full ... 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
Sign of Greatness Really great example of Art Deco here
An endangered ... signs with no thought of salvage. There ought to be a sign museum. It won't be long before all the old signs are gone.
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... is the scrotum hanging on the crossbar to the right of the sign.
Going out on a limb I am loath to reveal such ignorance but where ... (or spherical) thing hanging to the right of the neon sign? It appears to be inside (or outlined by) a cage-like (for lack of a ...
... starbucks for that double shot of espresso!"
Give me a sign I think that is the biggest trackside sign I've ever seen. Wonder what it says? Perhaps, "Employee on side of train ...
... The Southington News needs to cut the grass!
Stop sign I think the stop sign, shown from the back, is probably made from some kind of treated wood that ...
... mother's.
Cheers London 2.0
Face on the Camel sign Hard to tell from this angle, almost looks like a Mexican sombrero ... Kudos to the photographer for capturing the Camel sign blowing a smoke ring. We see the ubiquitous DeSoto taxicabs of that era ...
New York, February 23, 1912. "Three-ton electric sign blown into Broadway." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. ... insist there was a ballroom in the attic.
Not a good sign! It's fair to say that this was a sign of trouble.
Everything must ...
... don't think he was a window washer. Could he have been a sign painter who was about to paint a message on the large black rectangle on ... street from the Port Authority. They had a beautiful neon sign and it stood out from the other grimy storefronts along the street.
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October 1941. Chillicothe, Ohio. "Jewelers sign." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security ... Null points for spelling - both you and the sign maker - Jeweller surely?
[In American English, "jeweler" has but one ... can create infinite designs and even pictures.
Cool sign, cool photo I think John Vachon took by far the most interesting ...
... of those fortune telling machines below the Tait & Co. sign?
I need super-vision Does the lower lettering on the optician's ...
Also, I can't quiet make out the lettering on the sign above the Tait's sign -- "Hunt's Men's ___"?
[The signs are for the ...
... was the former home of the Keystone Laundry -- the sign for which is mounted on the railing at the entrance to the stairwell. I say former because there's a really tiny sign above the one for the 20th Century Cigar that reads "This Basement for ...
... of a car on the right.
[DeSoto "Sky View" taxicab sign. - Dave]
Internet, 1944 is what this could have been titled. The scrolling electric sign was as good as it got then, and I am sure those folks were fairly amazed ...
... and died in 1930 at age 24.
Signs, signs, everywhere a sign That has to be the busiest US Route sign I've seen. I learned A LOT about the US highway system running through ...
... to the guy who's actually working on your car.
Big Sign Shop Zooming in we see the name of the business that made the sign. Like it.
Pick Me Up Is this the ancestor of all pickup trucks?
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The reddish sign on the left side of the street, behind the motorcycle, identifies this ... on the east side of B'way United or perhaps that was a sign for United Cigar?
So nice this walk down memory lane.
Best to your ...
July 1937. "Georgia road sign." Photo by Dorothea Lange, who seems to have appreciated quirky signs. More to come later in the week. View full size.
Sign The owner of that sign should sue McDonald's.
[For want of an "r" the suit was lost. ...
September 1941. "Sign. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the ... the rep it has for being hot.
Hell at Hegra The sign reflects a cruel irony. Nazi troops occupied Norway in April 1940 and ... instead - it's only 2,420 miles away.
Directional sign I wonder where the custom of posting these directions to far away ...