Monthly Archives: October 2012

A Toast to the Ghosts of Stogies Past

With the passage of time the walls of our vintage brick commercial buildings have fewer and fewer ghost signs—handpainted advertisements, many of them decades old and now faded or obscured by later signs. Here are five signs that have not … Continue reading

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