ghost sign

December 29, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: brick wall, city scene, East Liberty, ghost sign, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 8 Comments

At Berlin Way on 51st Street

September 19, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: ghost sign, Lawrenceville, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 1 Comment

Ghost Sign and Graffiti at 57th Street and Berlin Way

July 24, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: ghost sign, graffiti, Lawrenceville, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, signage 8 Comments

Back of the Brillobox

There’s a ghost sign for beer and a painted brick sign on the back of the Brillobox( Relaxed lounge serving mixed drinks & bar eats features live music, dancing & special events) from their website .

March 19, 2025May 15, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Brillobox, cocktails, Columbus OH, ghost sign, lounge, music, neighborhood, Penn Ave, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, red light, signage 5 Comments

Illegible at the Red Light

Are these words the remnants of a Pittsburgh ghost sign or a botched graffiti clean up? do you see Lawrence? The word FRESH?

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Ella Street and Liberty Ave **Tobacco Outlet**

February 25, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Bloomfield, ghost sign, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, signage 3 Comments

Another Ghost Sign

At Butler snd 45th. Lawtencebille

Uneeda Biscuit discontinued in 2009. History is here of Nabisco.

February 4, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: crackers, ghost sign, Lawrenceville, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, signage, Uneeda Biscuit 6 Comments

It’s Been Done but I Found One on Monday

A Ghost sign.

One time I tried to do a Faded Friday Signage theme. It didn’t last long.

But I saw this one Monday morning on Penn Ave. in the Strip District.

There was already a show of Pittsburgh Ghost Signs in 2014. I missed it. Kelly Bogel was the photographer.

“I always wondered why we like these things,” said Professor Will Zavala, “I think it’s because they are a mystery. They’re a mystery because their literal meaning is sometimes a puzzle, sometimes they’re advertising products, for the most part, that don’t even exist anymore for companies that aren’t around, even though they must have been household names at the time.”

Here’s one I found years ago

January 17, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: ghost sign, neighborhood, Penn Ave, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, SIGN, signage, Strip District 17 Comments

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