Roses of chips, candys [sic], sodas, jugos=juises [sic], sopas=soups, ice cream, tarjetas tel.=phone card, tes calientes=hot teas.

We have two kinds of red-and-black-on-white.

 

The sign is dated 5/24/07, signed "By Abner M. CHORRO-" I think? I am not sure about CHORRO because the first two letters are faded.

 

What were you doing May 24th, 2007? Don't you wish you had kept a diary?

 

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In downtown Los Angeles on April 21st, 2019, outside the (former?) "Carmen's Snack Shop" on the north side of East 8th Street between South Los Angeles Street and Santee Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Downtown Los Angeles (7017736)

• Los Angeles (7023900)

• Los Angeles (county) (1002608)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• black (color) (300130920)

• bullet (Q126731)

• candy (300250954)

• capital letters (300055061)

• convenience stores (300005341)

• hand-painted (300248263)

• ice cream (300266767)

• lettering (processes) (300053342)

• lists (document genres) (300027119)

• misspellings (300417224)

• outdoor advertising (300213181)

• red (color) (300311118)

• Rosa (genus) (300266246)

• shop signs (300211862)

• soda (beverage) (300410373)

• soup (300389823)

• Spanish (language) (300389311)

• tea (beverage) (300249828)

• translation (function) (300069831)

 

Wikidata items:

• 21 April 2019 (Q57350053)

• 24 May 2007 (Q22663580)

• 2007 work (Q85608551)

• all caps (Q3960579)

• April 21 (Q2525)

• April 2019 (Q47087596)

• Fashion District (Q2491300)

• juice (Q8492)

• litter (Q1780867)

• loitering (Q2380751)

• potato chip (Q173265)

• solicitation (Q2785824)

• Southern California (Q844837)

• telephone card (Q1122035)

• trespass (Q3153728)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Painted signs and signboards (sh89005878)

• Roses in art (sh85115448)

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