Address: Preston St and Augustus Ave, Louisville, KY 40217. Old Grocery store sign painted on a currently abandoned building. Detail of top advertisement, reading, in part, "Belshoff's Food Center." Date: 1950s?
Abandoned buildings; Printing industry; Buildings; Brick wall signs; Electric signs
Address: 18th and Portland Ave., Louisville, Kentucky. Portland Printing advertises their Reduced & Enlarged Copies, as well as a Fax Service. A Neon "OPEN" sign appears in the window to the left of the ghost sign.
Address: 3936 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. (This section is now Shelbyville Road.) People stand in front of Plehn's Bakery near where a car had struck a boy. The invoice for this photo indicated that it was recording the skid marks the...
Man holding a picket sign on the sidewalk in front of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company building. The sign reads "C-J- Job Printing Co. This firm unfair to allied printing trades unions. Does not pay local prevailing wage rate."...
Billy Smith Signs storefront at 429 South Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The building is painted with advertisements for the sign company itself, and inside the windows signs for other companies and brands are displayed. The old Episcopal...
Painted sign for Dr. Pepper on the side of a brick building. The sign reads "Drink Dr. Pepper Good for Life!" and has the numbers 10 2 and 4 on a clock.
Sign above the Brown Garage that reads "Serve Lady Betty Mayonnaise Salad Dressings and Other Fine Foods" with a picture of a hand scooping mayonnaise onto a salad. The bottom of the sign reads "Wheatley Mayonnaise Co. Louisville,...
Address: 1153 Logan Street, Louisville, KY 40204. Side of building features new painted sign for Smoketown USA. Older ghost sign advertises the Feed and Seed store that occupied the building beginning in 1862.
Address: 1153 Logan Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Partially legible ghost sign on side of brick building includes the address ("1153") and the word "groceries." A newer painted sign contains a cartoon picture of a dancing man, a...
Advertisement for Klarer's. The sign reads "Give a 'Weeny Witch' Halloween Party with Klarer Health Wieners." There is a picture of a hot dog decorated as a witch.
Address: Shelby Street and Ash Street, Louisville, KY 40217. Back of the Goss Avenue Antiques & Interiors. Ghost sign may be from the Serta manufactures that were there before Goss Antiques acquired the building. "Slip covering",...
Window display advertising a movie with stacks of potatoes against the windows. The movie is for "See Here, Private Hargrove." A sign in the window advertises a free war bond and guest tickets to Loew's theater to the person who guesses...
Vertical pair of signs for Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. The top sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Save Money - More Heat - Less Ash" with a picture of an eagle. The bottom sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Sterns Coal Co.-...
