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**Sam at BLAG** @blag@typo.social · 1d

Sam at BLAG @blag@typo.social

Highway robbery as 'Historic Idaho sign goes missing days before donation to Museum of Idaho':

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2025/04/historic-idaho-sign-goes-missing-days-before-donation-to-museum-of-idaho/

From the latest edition of the SCA Weekly News:
https://sca-roadside.org/news-and-advocacy/

Large hand-painted roadside sign, landscape orientation, that reads:

“FEARLESS FARRIS STINKER STATION, HI-WAY 30, POCATELLO-BURLEY, SAVE LIKE MAD.”

Back of previous sign with faded hand-painted black letters that read:

“WARNING TO TOURISTS — DO NOT LAUGH AT THE NATIVES.”

#SaveOurSigns #SignPainting #Ghostsigns

**Hanna Donker** @hdonker@typo.social · Mar 30

Mar 30

Hanna Donker @hdonker@typo.social

One more Den Haagse #DutchIJ lettering, spotted in the Assendelftstraat. Rijwielen, onderdelen en banden, by Waterreus & Co., a company started in 1911. #ghostsigns

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**Sam at BLAG** @blag@typo.social · Mar 27

Mar 27

Sam at BLAG @blag@typo.social

@inspirationgrid Have you seen Andrei Lacatusu's 'Social Decay' project?

https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2018/08/social-decay-from-andrei-lacatusu/

Detail of a concrete building with a protruding balcony set above a shuttered garage door. Between these are mounted letters set in a series of circles that are rusting and decaying, which spell 'twitter' in the company's former typeface.

#SocialMedia #Signs #DigitalArt

**Jean-Marc** @basalte74@piaille.fr · Mar 26

Mar 26

Jean-Marc @basalte74@piaille.fr

Un petit mur peint en passant à travers Boulogne-Billancourt.
#GhostSigns

Sur un pan de mur de briques étroit, un signe peint indique le café du coin. Au-dessus, une grande publicité peinte quasi effacée (on distingue juste quelques numéros de téléphone).

**Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist Dad** @JPK_elmediat@mastodon.art · Mar 22

Mar 22

Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist Dad @JPK_elmediat@mastodon.art

Authorized Parking
#GhostSigns #Signs #Photography #Surreal #DigitalArt #SurrealArt #Surrealism #SurrealPhotography #Art #MastoArt #NorthernOntario #ElliotLake #Light #Ontario #Canada

Digitally modified photo resembles a colour illustration. In the foreground is a worn sign. Text (some is faded/worn) in red against white background : Authorized Parking Only Vehicles parked in other Than their designated location will be towed away at the owner's risk and expense. Stationment
The bottom half of the sign is peeled away, leaving only the wooden board.
The ground surrounding the sign is overgrown grasses. In the background are trees in fall colours of red and burnt orange.

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**DreamRender** @DreamRender@pixelfed.social · Mar 16

Mar 16

DreamRender @DreamRender@pixelfed.social

A ghost sign clinging to the past—Hastings and Hart Schaffner & Marx, once a beacon of fine clothing, now a whisper in brick and faded paint. Time may have dimmed the colors, but the charm remains. Who else loves spotting these old ads? #GhostSigns #UrbanDecay #VintageCharm

#vintagecharm

**les briques** @les_briques@pixelfed.social · Mar 14

Mar 14

les briques @les_briques@pixelfed.social

Là où Gray’s Inn Road rejoint King’s Cross, un somptueux ghost sign signale l’emplacement d’un ancien fabricant de poids et balances. En commentaire, un billet de blog qui tente de le dater en retraçant son histoire. Juillet 2023.
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#bricksoflondon #londonbricks #englishbricks #britishbricks #ghostsign #ghostsigns #ghostsignsuk #london #londonlife #visitlondon #ilovelondon #brickghostsigns #londonbricks_lesbriques

Photo d’une vieille façade d’immeuble en brique au bord d’une rue passante portant un texte en lettres peintes un peu passées : SCALES - WEIGHTS - WEIGHING MACHINES - 319 -321. Le rez de chaussée est occupé par des commerces aux enseignes colorées (esthéticienne, café Internet, etc.)

#londonbricks_lesbriques

**Sam at BLAG** @blag@typo.social · Mar 12

Mar 12

Sam at BLAG @blag@typo.social

A flurry of orders has taken my stock of Ghost Signs: A London Story to less than 30.

It's not being reprinted, unless another publisher steps up, so grab one while you can.

https://shop.bl.ag/products/ghost-signs-a-london-story

Thank you to @RoyReed for getting on board with the project which helped me escape the depths of my pandemic despair, Max at Isola Press for taking the plunge as publisher, Eve for the outstanding design, and everyone else that contributed research and pictures.

shop.bl.agGhost Signs: A London Story

#Ghostsigns #London #History

**Kasey Smith** @ihazrabies@tmm.cx · Mar 5

Mar 5

Kasey Smith @ihazrabies@tmm.cx

I took these ghostsign pics last year and never posted them. The Hotel Travelers in downtown Vallejo, as shot from the top floor of the Odd Fellows lodge across the street. I'm not sure the age of the Ghirardelli sign, but the Coke sign is probably from the 1960's. #ghostsigns #sfba

A photo of a historic downtown taken from a rooftop vantage point. The main focus of the pic is on a brick building with a yellow facade. On the exposed brick side are three old ghostsigns. One is just white text and says Hotel Travelers. One is a very faded sign that says Have A Coke and has a hand holding a Coke bottle. One is a long string of text that says Ghirardelli's Chocolate Since 1852.

**This Is My Glasgow** @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 5

Mar 5

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot

The cart entrance to the old Crown Mill on Washington Street in the Anderston Area of Glasgow. This Italianate building was constructed in 1862, but all that is now left is the boarded up ground floor. As well as the ghost sign of the mill's name over the door, you can also see the cast iron guards on either side which helped protect the corners from being damanged by carts bumping into them when passing in and out.

An boarded up entrance to a former flour mill in Glasgow.

#glasgow #anderston #abandonedbuildings

**Sam at BLAG** @blag@typo.social · Mar 4

Mar 4

Sam at BLAG @blag@typo.social

Chanced on this one while wandering around downtown Cincinnati at dusk yesterday

Sign story here: https://bl.ag/meet-chuck-keiger-sam-caldwells-cincinnati-walldog/

Sadly, further photography was abandoned after an unsavoury character started making a beeline for me across the parking lot. Maybe I'll get a opportunity to return for some closer shots of the wall...

Large brick wall facing a parking lot with a fading hand-painted sign for Sam Caldwell & Co, Painters, Decorators.

#Ghostsigns #Cincinnati #Ohio

**Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed** @coprolite9000@pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Feb 28

Feb 28

Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000@pixelfed.hylobatidae.org

For #windowFriday / #fensterFreitag - old windows and a ghost sign from #CapitolHill, #Seattle. October 2014.

#ghostSigns #dereliction

In orange evening light, an old red brick wall, several storeys high, punctuated by windows and a vertical column of bay windows, wood with peeling white paint. Between two storeys, a faded, painted sign on the brickwork - "HARTFORD GLASS CO. - Automobile Glass & Mirrors".

#dereliction

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**Sam at BLAG** @blag@typo.social · Feb 28

Feb 28

Sam at BLAG @blag@typo.social

@sirhc I don't know if he's still around, but St Louis is/was home to ghost signs great Wm. Stage.

His first Ghost Signs book was published in 1989, and remains a timeless volume. He then did this one with a more local focus just over decade ago:

https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2014/04/fading-ads-of-st-louis-by-wm-stage/

Via the @ghostsigns blog

Fading Ads of St. Louis by Wm. Stage| Ghostsigns | This stunning photograph is from the cover of Wm. Stage's latest addition to the ghostsigns literature, 'Fading Ads of St. Louis'. Stage's first book, 'Ghost Signs', remains the definitive text on the topic and so it is no surprise to find his latest work full of fantastic photography and meticulous research. In this case Stage · Apr 3, 2014Fading Ads of St. Louis by Wm. Stage | Review on Ghostsigns | GhostsignsReview of Fading Ads of St. Louis by Wm. Stage on Ghostsigns. A book about painted advertising, fading on walls.

#ghostsigns #StLouis

**Steven Heywood** @Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 24

Feb 24

Steven Heywood @Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk

Rayden's Food Market.

London Road, Southport.

#GhostSigns
#Southport

Ghost sign high on a wall.

Faded whitewashed wall on a Victorian terrace. At the top of the wall, below the gutter, by a window, a sign is painted in red sans-serif capitals:

RAYDEN'S
FOOD
MARKET

**Sam at BLAG** @blag@typo.social · Feb 23 *

Feb 23 *

Sam at BLAG @blag@typo.social

"Their [calligraphers'] handwriting, if you think about it, really defined the character of the neighbourhood." — Billy Potts talking about his Hong Kong Ghost Signs tour in Kowloon City

https://www.orangenews.hk/HKEye/1256662/Walking-tours-reveal-another-side-to-the-city.shtml

Four-panel sign with each panel filled by a fading Chinese character. The sign is photographed below and appears to straddle a narrow street. Behind our, a large building with many floors and windows visible fills the frame.

#ghostsigns #calligraphy #calligraphers

**Atlas Obscura** @atlas@libranet.de · Feb 21

Feb 21

Atlas Obscura @atlas@libranet.de

‘Take Courage’ Ghost Sign in London, England

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.#advertising #ghostsigns #section-Atlas
‘Take Courage’ Ghost Sign

Atlas Obscura · Feb 21‘Take Courage’ Ghost SignThis hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

#sectionatlas

**This Is My Glasgow** @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 22

Feb 22

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot

Ghost sign on the derelict former District Court building on Turnbull Street in Glasgow. This building is due to be renovated soon, and I do hope this ghost sign will be preserved.

#glasgow #ghostsigns
#ghostsignsglasgow
#ghostsign
#glasgowbuildings #derelictbuilding