Roadside Art Online: Signs - 5

Arcade Eastown Bowling, London, Ontario

Traf-O-Teria, Monroe, Wisconsin

Like everything else, carnivals have lost much of their vernacular funkiness in favor of mass production efficiency. But every once in a while you can still stumble across some appealing fairground art.

The Dairy Lodge, Traverse City, Michigan.

Master Bait & Tackle, Naples, Florida: Yes, the name is all too obvious, but the signage and building are right in the mainstream of Prosaic Art.

Ernesto's, Mission Street, San Francisco.

Monumentalism on Mission Street.

Hollywood Hair Design, Mission Street, completing a trio of great hair cutteries.

A great name and a great sign, Mission Street.

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