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Day: 26 February 2012

Grandma's Boy ghostsign Vancouver Canada

Vancouver demolition reveals intriguing ghostsign

Twitter and my Google Reader came alive this week following the demolition of a Vancouver building that left the best part of this 1920s sign clear … Read more

Categories Individual Signs
Hand painted sign advertising Martini across four stories of building

Article charting the history and early photography of advertising painted on walls

Daniel Lohmann posted an article he’s written to the ghostsigns Facebook group. It is in german and the original can be found here [Link expired] with … Read more

Categories Inspired by Signs, Sign Collections, Signs in Media

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