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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
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« Reply #61 on Sept 11, 2010, 7:08pm »

Old wall but new signage!

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #62 on Sept 12, 2010, 12:28am »

I missed seeing Kimby's exceptionally good picture before. There's something about that faded border of green, plus the homely incidental details, such as the bike on the porch, that really make this a satisfying photo.

That Evian sign has the bizarre quality of making itself seem real and the building seem fake!

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #63 on Sept 16, 2010, 5:29am »

Thanks bixa.

Did you notice the faces on the parapets (if that's the right word)?

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #64 on Sept 16, 2010, 8:42am »

Yes! Are they masks, or are they faces? Either way, what are they doing up there?

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #65 on Sept 16, 2010, 3:32pm »

I don't know. I didn't see them myself, until I took a closer look for the "green border" bixa mentioned, which I also hadn't seen. ;-)

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #66 on Nov 27, 2010, 9:05pm »

I remember seeing these signs since I was a little girl..

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This is a shop now...but my Dad says that he remembers it as a cinema in the 1930s...The Electric Theatre no less...

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #67 on Nov 27, 2010, 9:19pm »

I am now worrying about chemists who had no examination.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #68 on Nov 28, 2010, 4:14am »

I love that chemists building! What is the round part at the top, Cheery?

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #69 on Nov 30, 2010, 6:24pm »

um....it's just another fancy bit of the building. Leicester has loads of old buildings that were originally built for one purpose and then ended up being taken over and converted to shops, offices and homes...lately a lot of old factories have been turned into luxury appartments (that nobody can afford to buy...)

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« Reply #70 on Nov 30, 2010, 7:03pm »

It's the same on the continent, often with quirky results.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #73 on Jan 20, 2011, 6:07pm »

I love the last two examples.

This is one of those threads that really opened my eyes to things around me that had gone unnoticed before.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #75 on Jan 23, 2011, 5:31pm »

If you look closely, you can see that it is actually a stretched canvas in front of the wall.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #76 on Feb 7, 2011, 8:09pm »

And probably not technically "old signage" either....

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #77 on Feb 7, 2011, 8:11pm »

Jul 19, 2010, 6:56am, kimby wrote:

This image was shown in an exhibit at our local art museum recently. Not MY photo, however, a black and white image captured by a professional using an 8x10 view camera. But I was quite pleased to see that my eye had appreciated what a pro found worthy of photgraphing...

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #78 on Feb 7, 2011, 8:51pm »

I just noticed the two mask faces at the top of the building for the first time.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #79 on Mar 8, 2011, 10:31pm »

I don't know that any pro could top your picture, Kimby. It has so many points of interest, including composition, color, shading, and great details.

This wall is around the corner from my house. Last night I asked my next-door neighbor, whose property it is, what the story was on it. She sighed and said that it "no dio frutas" -- it didn't bear fruit.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #80 on Mar 29, 2011, 2:28pm »

French Quarter,NOLA

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #84 on Dec 21, 2011, 6:16pm »

modern take on old walls

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #85 on Dec 27, 2011, 6:30pm »

Take that image to a new thread you will create called "new advertising on walls"

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #86 on Dec 27, 2011, 6:39pm »

Oh yes baby, that our Charlene!! What a beautiful woman, and what an outstanding actress she has become.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #87 on Dec 27, 2011, 6:58pm »

She strikes me as a younger Sharon Stone.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #88 on Jan 22, 2012, 9:24pm »

This shows a combination of two classics -- Savon Cadum and Dubonnet, one overlaid on the other.

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Re: Commercial Signage on Old Walls
« Reply #89 on Jan 23, 2012, 12:43am »

Outstanding pic !!!

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