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
