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The Skipping Girl Sign or Skipping Girl Vinegar Sign, originally known as Little Audrey, is possibly the first animated neon sign in Australia, located off Victoria Street in the inner Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford. The sign shows an animation of a little girl playing with a skipping rope.
It was erected at the Nycander factory on 627 Victoria Street in 1936 to advertise Nycander Vinegar. The sign was removed in 1968 and a smaller replica was installed in 1970 at 651 Victoria Street and it now advertises "Skipping Girl" brand vinegar. The replica has been listed by the National Heritage Trust.
Sign on vacant business in Gary. The other side says "PANCAKE" below "HAMBURGERS," but this shot was better
Old black fingerboard sign at intersection of Wellington and Jells Road Mulgrave which has strangely survived the widening of Wellington Road to six lanes and the Waverley Park housing development at the rear of shot.
Note the old font used which was common prior to the use of the American FWHA Series Font used in recent decades.
Item 58985, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives.
This is how you find your way around at the U of L. These signs are all over the campus. And the font is frutiger, one of my favourites. The sign guy here does great work.
Philosophical Zen-like richness of street signs:
What is "a container"? Is container anything that contains something? Can liquid be carried without being contained? Is this, in fact, a definition of liquid - an object which has to be contained in other object? But isn't ANY object contained in some other object? Is containment a limitation of freedom, a restraint? And if so - is liquid unlucky entity that can never have its freedom? But then again - can liquid survive its freedom, can it survive being one entity without being restraint? As far as I know liquid would break into loads of little particles in the container-less dark vacuum of Universe, and hence it would lose its identity. Isn't it what we can say about human existence? The only freedom and liberation is death, when our bodies break up into loads of small little atoms?
And what about the definition of "open"? Can a bottle of whisky whose cap has been unscrewed and then screwed back on again be considered "open" even though it is closed? Can we draw the parallel analogy with virginity here? Once opened always considered open, even when closed? Can one ever regain one's viriginity? And can we extend this analogy to sins, crimes, regrets, wrong-doings? The time cannot be turned back, everything is recorded, inter-woven into a fabric of Universe, nothing can be undone, everything is built on what has already happened, trying to remove those foundations would cause the whole structure of time-space-continuuuuum to collapse?
And finally, if a policeman finds a half empty bottle of whisky in my possession - would he consider this bottle to be "open"? And if so, does "open" really means" something that has been contaminated, devoured, spent a little, i.e. something which is lacking it original qualities? "Open Air" - the air which we consume and contaminate by breathing out carbon dioxide?
And finally: what the hell "And/or" actually means? Is it "And or Or"? "or" stands for "one or another", but "and" encapsulates both - isn't then such statement logically invalid AND meaningless and therefore not executable by Law which is supposed to be logically and procedurally sound? Is this some advanced mathematical equation or is it a spiritual question about duality of everything that is, ying an yang stuff, everything is a part of everything else and therefore a container can be contained by the entity it contains? If some object is fully emerged in a liquid - can liquid be ever considered to be a container? Or is it perhaps a question of quantum physics - both potentialities exists but it is an observer, a participator who forces them into singular, exclusive mode?
And so on and on and on and on... Aristone! :)
Fortunoff's Sign (1940s)
Pennsylvania & Livonia aves.
East New York, Brooklyn
Max (1896–1987) and Clara (1902–86) Fortunoff opened a neighborhood housewares store "under the El" at 561 Livonia Ave. in 1922. Eventually they expanded to eight stores within two blocks. They are credited with being one of the first discount sellers in the New York area. Part of their success was attributed to the fact that they were closed on Saturdays in observation of the Jewish Sabbath, which allowed them to legally open on Sundays when most retailers were closed.
They relocated their flagship store to Westbury, L.I., in 1964. The store went out of business in 2009.
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I was a bit dismayed to find this sign in the washroom of a hispanic market. I'm sure it's quite a story of why it is there . . .
The sign is comical in itself: stick figure hits his head on overhanging sign. Beware!
But this is a SIGN ABOUT THE SIGN. The logic behind its existence escapes me: without the sign there, there would be no need to warn about it.
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Signing the route between Waterloo bus station and rail station and located under the SouthEastern route there has clearly been some artistic licence in the train depiction. Closest to reality would be on a day when First Great Western were running HSTs into Waterloo.