Selz Shoes ghost sign - Kahoka, Missouri
Strange that I'd been across the Kahoka square a few weeks ago and missed this! Then recently, traveling the same street but in the opposite direction, I was surprised to see these wonderful wall ads.
While I was shooting, a passerby told me that a building had fallen in awhile back and when they removed it, these old ads appeared. Wonder how long it had been since they'd seen the light of day.
This is the coolest "ghost" I've seen in person. Down in the white border on the lower right of the Selz ad it is signed "Thos Cusack & Co Chicago". Thomas Cusack was an Irish immigrant who trained to be a sign painter. In 1875 he started his outdoor advertising company which went on to become the largest in the United States.
Supposedly, German immigrant, Rolf Selz, was such a fine shoemaker that he had been commissioned to make a pair of dancing shoes for Queen Elizabeth when she was young - thus the name "Royal". Ads claimed Shoeless Joe Jackson wore 'em! More on Selz Shoes here.
Selz Shoes ghost sign - Kahoka, Missouri
Strange that I'd been across the Kahoka square a few weeks ago and missed this! Then recently, traveling the same street but in the opposite direction, I was surprised to see these wonderful wall ads.
While I was shooting, a passerby told me that a building had fallen in awhile back and when they removed it, these old ads appeared. Wonder how long it had been since they'd seen the light of day.
This is the coolest "ghost" I've seen in person. Down in the white border on the lower right of the Selz ad it is signed "Thos Cusack & Co Chicago". Thomas Cusack was an Irish immigrant who trained to be a sign painter. In 1875 he started his outdoor advertising company which went on to become the largest in the United States.
Supposedly, German immigrant, Rolf Selz, was such a fine shoemaker that he had been commissioned to make a pair of dancing shoes for Queen Elizabeth when she was young - thus the name "Royal". Ads claimed Shoeless Joe Jackson wore 'em! More on Selz Shoes here.