Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms

Hunter’s Lodge Motel – Restaurant & Bar – Delaware, NJ

Nov 29th, 2014

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Enzo & Buddy © Frank H. Jump

Georg Geiling & Co. – Sektkellereien – Sparkling Wine Cellar – Bacharach, Germany – Iman R. Abdulfattah

Nov 26th, 2014

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Gölz’sche Weinkellerei – St. Werner – Bacharach, Germany – Iman R. Abdulfattah

Nov 25th, 2014

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Bacharach Besuchen – Visit Bacharach

This business was opened 111 years ago. According to one business website, this business is closed and another says it is still active.

Marbach Burgbrand – Burglay Liköre – Liquors – Bacharach, Germany – Iman R. Abdulfattah

Nov 24th, 2014

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Groliers Craft Press – L. Kehlman Co – Amarusa Paper Revisited

Nov 23rd, 2014

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Previously published on FAB:

Home of Em’s Specialty Candies – Fudge – Chocolates – Syracuse, NY

Nov 19th, 2014

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Columbia Banking Federal Savings & Loan Association – Two Handy Offices – Rochester, NY

Nov 15th, 2014

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Columbia Banking Federal Savings and Loan Association: 31 East Main Street, Rochester NY became inactive on June 3, 1994

A partial list of the financial institutions to which the assets of Columbia Banking includes:

OnBank in Syracuse, NY
M&T Bank, and
Key Bank

Barbe Leturgez – Sieges , Tentures, Ameublement – Seats, Curtains & Furniture – Arras, FR – Gaia Son

Nov 6th, 2014

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Meet the ghost-sign hunters | Cities | The Guardian | Melbourne – Nick Gadd

Nov 5th, 2014

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The Omega Oil sign in New York. Often these adverts are hidden for decades by buildings, billboards or trees – reappearing briefly during a construction project, before they are destroyed forever. Photograph: Frank Jump

Nick Gadd – Wednesday 5 November 2014 04.56 EST

Melbourne- They’ve just knocked down an unremarkable little building on Latrobe Street, Melbourne, so they can throw up an apartment block – sorry, an “iconic 43-storey residential tower with a jewel box podium”. When the old building went down, it revealed the words “Paragon Printers” in fading paint on an adjacent brick wall. But not for long: the next time I passed, that wall had gone too, revealing another wall behind it, with a vibrant blue sign bearing the words “Henry Richardson, Saw Maker and Importer”. For a few days Richardson’s name was visible, as it had been 60 or so years earlier. Soon after, the site was nothing but rubble, and now that iconic tower is on its way.

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V.H. Lang Trophies Co. Inc. – Rochester, NY

Oct 30th, 2014

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Across the street from the Capron Lofts is the old V.H. Lang Trophies building. The trophy shop closed its doors last month (May) as the owners sought retirement, and it has been rumored that the building was recently sold to an unknown investor. Can you imagine lofts or retail space in this tired-looking historic structure? Will you be the change maker in this city to make that happen? – Signs of life: the next “HOT” Neighborhood? URBAN PERSPECTIVE || therochesteriat.com/signs-of-life/ JUNE 20, 2014 BY JASON SCHWINGLE