One thing that has always fascinated me about American cities is the abundance of old signage everywere. Wherever one goes, it will not take more than five minutes to find a vintage shop sign that hasn’t changed in fifty years.

Here are a couple of recent examples from a walk around the Nob Hill and Russian Hill neighborhoods of San Francisco… sadly, two of the stores – the New Russian Hill Grocery and the Elephant Laundry – have both recently closed their doors forever.

Click for a larger version. Taken with our “new” Nikon N80 on Kodak Gold 200