Ghost signs are old hand painted signs that have been faded by time. Dr Stefan Schutt at Victoria University studies ghost signs in Melbourne, and he’s been interviewed by ABC Local Radio and written up in the Sydney Morning Herald (photo gallery). You can see more ghost signs at the Ghost Sign Project or the the ghost sign Flickr group, which has more than 21,000 photos. Previously.
Reader Steve Fitch recently put together his slides of ghost signs from across the city, all taken in 1997, then he scanned them and got them up on Flickr for us to enjoy..
Today, in Corsicana, Texas: Ghost signs, brick porn, extreme heat. (Taken with Instagram at Corsicana, Texas)
Downtown, the former cafe The Adore has been stripped to reveal a sign for a children’s barber shop
A building used to sit between the site of this ghost sign & the other one. The ground now is a parking lot.
(Taken with Instagram at 402 Main St in Houston)
Links etc. related to places, and contemporary notions of place, that are of interest to Rob Walker, author of Letters From New Orleans and co-founder of The Hypothetical Development Organization.
See also: Rob Walker blog on Design Observer.
