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Early morning alley in town...
Experimenting with some new BW conversion techniques which brought out the ghost writing on the wall. I can make out the word "store," I think, but nothing else. Anyone else read it?
An old building that caught my eye. Help me figure out the ghost writing on the front, and I’ll send you....my undying appreciation! Hey, this isn’t Amazon!
Lots of ghost writing on this old building in Columbia, TN - home of Mule Day
Thanks to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/chuk-haze/] for inspiration - he recently posted a similar photo.
This service station or repair shop has obviously been closed for a long time. I think I can identify the name of this garage as being Swinn’s or Shwinn’s and the word on the bottom right is Service. I can’t make out the word on the bottom left. It seems to end in an H or an E. All the words that would normally go with a garage, like ‘Repair,’ ‘Automotive‘ or ‘Tire’ don’t really fit. I could use some help on this one. I tried to look it up online, but I could find nothing on this old building or business.
It is located in Northumberland County, Virginia.
Update: Thank you to Ross Walker www.flickr.com/photos/ross_v_walker/ for finding a picture of Swann’s Motor Service in Heathsville, Virginia taken in 2014 before the encroachment of all the vines and trees. www.facebook.com/AbandonedNNK/photos/pcb.312068688942716/...
Ghost writing marks where Steacy's Ltd once operated. Established in 1881, the dry goods store originally opened at 106 Princess Street then moved to 118-120 Princess after 22 years at the original location. The Screening Room, an independent movie theatre now occupies the space.
“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you—even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world. So none of this is happening. Such things could not occur. Never a word of it is literally true.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Semi Trailer | Ghost Writing
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Newport News, Virginia
Well hard to believe its been a week since I was in Louisiana with my niece Amy Ward Brown and BFF Kim Nizol and I am just now getting to the photos I took, These photos were taken in Melville, LA and at first this building appeared to be a furniture store owned by the Napoli's, I do so love finding buildings with ghost writing. Upon closer inspection we found the original corner stone and low and behold it was originally the bank of Melville built in 1903. Many times buildings are re-purposed but what is very unusual is that the Napoli's tried to COVER UP the cornerstone, shame on them but does make it even a bit more special. I'd love to know the other names under the cement or whatever that is, tried google but nothing so shall remain a mystery.
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Joseph Foster Pater registered to be a stockbroker in 1865 and the following year his business address was stated as 75 Old Broad Street in the City of London.
By 1884 he’d moved down the road to number 56 where he traded until his death in 1894 at which point his son, Edgar Aloysius, took the reins. He died in 1913, after which his son, Edgar John Blackburn, headed the company. In 1923, Edgar split from his business partner, Arthur Long, and moved “Pater & Co” to 19 Great Winchester Street, where this ghost sign is directing people to. The company remained here until 1933 when it moved to New Broad Street, then later back to where it all began in Old Broad Street.
The business stayed in the Pater family until the 1970s.
Creator: William Hope (1863 - 1933)
Date: c. 1920
Collection: National Media Museum Collection
Inventory no: 2002-5054/19
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By H V Eaglesham, 1895-97. 4-storey, 9-bay tenement on corner-site with square-plan 5-stage tower and commercial premises at ground floor. Polished red ashlar; channelled at ground floor; banded at 1st floor. Base course; deep shopfront frieze and cornice; 2nd floor cill course; consoled cornice; parapet (balustraded to outer bays and central bay to Fullarton Street). Strip pilasters flank central 3 bays to Fort Street. Consoled iron balconies and cornices to 2nd floor windows; architraves to 3rd floor windows.
Built using advanced construction techniques for its time, Rob Close refers to Wellington Chambers as, "... the major memorial to Henry Vincent Eaglesham [...] it has great presence and rare quality and, [...] is an engineer's building." Rob Close also questions, whether the strongly horizontal deeply recessed joints, would have had the same effect in grey Giffnock stone, the original proposed material.
The room at the top corner of Wellington Chambers was purpose built for the artist Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953). The building also contained the office of Bone's good friend James A Morris, an architect whose work would help shape the town.
Circa 1825. 3-storey ashlar classical, pilastered ground floor shops, 7-window at 1st and 2nd (central blind with painted inscription of history of building) main cornice and central 3-bay pediment with Venetian motif, slated roof.
Grammar School of Perth formerly stood at this site. 1st floor ghost writing indicates former hotel.
Shillitos was one of the earliest department stores in downtown Cincinnati. In the 60's many downtown stores moved out to the suburbs, Shillitos followed. It went through many owners and currently is a Macy store. Not many signs of what used to be in the downtown area.
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I posted this one earlier but wasn't happy with the processing. So here i is again.
Built in the early 1900's this building's wall has seen plenty of advertisement. No advertisement for the pancake shop inside at the moment but there are no 10¢ cigars to be found inside(or anywhere else on the planet for that matter).
This type of old faded writing on the outside of these brick buildings is what is known as "ghost writing". What strikes me as most interesting is the layers of the writing. I never noticed it but underneath Tom Moore you can just make out an advertisement for Coca Cola.
Now I've only lived in this town for five years and I've just now spotted it. I asked the owner of the local Coca Cola bottling company about and she said she's never even noticed it and her family's been in this town for generations.
Goes to show what you see when you get to looking at stuff with your camera.
For 52 of Twenty Eleven - Week #42 - Theme: Words
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