While I’m on the subject of old street signage, there is also an amazing number of old painted advertisements that can be found in American cities. Sometimes and old house will fall to the wrecking ball and on the walls of the neighbors old advertisements suddenly see the light of the day. And then there [...]
Here are some more old signs that I pass almost daily in my neighborhood. Two of the four signs are for existing establishments, while two businesses are sadly no longer with us. The Food Fair Market is undergoing some major refurbishment and may not resurface as the same store and the Chop Suey must have [...]
We just saw Born into Brothels on DVD for the first time and we were both moved by the amazing story of these children and the energy that the photographer, Zana Briski, put into bettering the lives of the young inhabitants of the labyrinthine brothel in Calcutta. One result of Mrs. Briski’s efforts has been [...]
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 [...]