Both very cool, Chris! Thanks for sharing. That multi-layered one... the yellow seems to say BULL DURHAM. (I'll need to have a pint and work on the rest). : )
Bull Durham (tobacco) did a LOT of building signage apparently: http://signs.lawrenceotoole.com/2012/04/bull-durham-smoking-tobacco.html http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/09/bull-durham-ghost-sign.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/brulelaker/6674640413/ http://7thstreetnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/ghost-bull-durham-sign-restored.html On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 July 2012 16:41, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> These images are purely documentary, but for those of you who enjoy >> "Ghost Signs" here are two examples from the same building in my home >> town. Ghost signs painted on chalk brick (like these) tend to show up >> best when the brick gets wet, and we were fortunate enough to get a >> decent rain overnight (finally some moisture!) I drive past this >> building on my way to work every day, but the way the signs were >> "popping" and the overcast light this morning combined to provide the >> motivation for me to pull over and get them recorded. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/7677143598/in/photostream/ >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/7677143294/in/photostream/ >> >> For those interested there is also a Flickr group dedicated to Ghost >> Signs, which has over 21,000 images: >> http://www.flickr.com/groups/10285999@N00/ >> > Thanks for posting Darren. I've always been interested in these. > Here's one in Galena, Illinois which seems to be multi-layered: > http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Galena/slides/_IGP2945.html > > And here's a fun one in Cockermouth in the English Lake District, not > quite as faded, but disappearing fast. It should be listed by English > Heritage to preserve it: > http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/LakeDistrict2011_/slides/_IGP8938.html > > Chris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around." -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
