I’ve added some new signs in the course of reorganizing how I present them. I’ve mostly separated Chicagoland signs from the rest of the world and I’ve reorganized most of Western Avenue Art Gallery signs into geographical pages rather than thematic. This makes it far more likely that I’ll get signs posted, since it makes them much easier to post. Check out the four new groups: Western Avenue Clark Street Pilsen Varieties
Continue readingGreat store name
S. Tice-Lewis contributed a great name, Cum Park Plaza in Haw River, N.C.
Continue readingThe 47th Street Art Show
47th Street is one of Chicago’s great signage thoroughfares. Here are some recent finds.
Continue readingBert triumphant
Check out this page of fabulous Bert mania: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1843531&thread_type=voteresults
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More new or upgraded pictures from some favorite locations:
Continue readingFresh look at classic gyros
New pictures of the great — now destroyed — gyros signs from Hellas Gyros on Bryn Mawr, “Home of the Gyros.”
Continue readingPut the X back in Xmas
Whatever the War on Christmas poseurs may say, Christ is all over the place in the holiday season. But how many blow-up Xes do you see on front lawns? How often do store clerks says “Merry Xmas”? And why don’t we call it Xgiving, too? It would make for a more efficient season and add more variety at the same time.
Continue readingXmas Gift of the Year
This great embroidery is by Anne Weitze.
Continue readingNew Vernacular Signs
More vernacular signs from Chicago’s North Side. This great work is all part of the Western Avenue and Vicinity Art Gallery.
Continue readingYet More Weird Business Names
A new round of names added to the Grog N Groc Hall of Fame: What the Pho Bellevue, Washington (John Carlton) Ave’s Taxidermy and Cheese, River Falls, Wisconsin (Sheryl Kostich) A-Furniture Store, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Litteral Photography, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Bearable Dentistry, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Bender Chiropractic, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) The Lie-N Den Bar, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Judy’s Lounge & Liquor, Stone Park, Illinois (Larry Ostgaard: “My friend John & his girlfriend, Judy and I would drive by and invariably John would ask if we wanted to go to Judy’s lounge and lick her.”) Pastry
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