Ghost ads

Waiting for the bus in downtown Seattle this caught my eye.  Not a great example of wall ads but it reminded me of some great flickr groups: ghost signs, wall ads, faded signage, old wall ads.  Interesting how advertising was once so integral to buildings, but now posters are usually limited to designated sites and quickly vanish. It's as if businesses were more confident in the past.  Big displays of who they were painted on their building walls, their business names etched in stone. 

Comments

[Sam Roberts]

I couldn't agree more with the point about confidence. These signs were painted as if to say, "here I am and I ain't going nowhere fast". I'm currently researching them in the UK and publishing to a blog at http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk