#ghostsigns — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://c.im/@Stuck_Here/117190679305979256
Do you think the appreciation of, and fascination with, ghost signs is a form of 'nagori' as explained here?
Reminds me of the artist, whose name I can't remember, who installed a frame filled with freshly cut roses — the beauty was to be found in the decay/transition, much like the turning of the leaves in autumn.
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There have been recent projects by Historic England and Museum of London Archaeology #MOLA to record historic #ghostsigns Here is an example of a more contemporary one. Presumably John Lewis are no longer "at home"? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2eyy1lzmj1o https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/features/ghost-signs/ #HistoricEngland #histodons #history
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Northampton's Ghosts of Industry project. Capturing fading painted street signs. https://ghosts.mola.org.uk/s/ghosts/page/home #GhostSigns #Northampton #MOLA #histodons
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New at bl.ag online, 'Field Notes from BLAG: May 2026', with the New York vernacular, brush care, DIY directionals, Barcelona painters, and more from the field.
https://bl.ag/fieldnotes/field-notes-from-blag-may-2026/
#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #Ghostsigns #FieldNotes
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#Ghostsigns of an enormous auto and truck garage from #AlbanyNY – shots I took back in 2010 but current StreetView shows it's pretty much the same today. #sign #signs #signage #ghostsign #UpstateNewYork #upstateNY
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Can anyone make out the long word/phrase in the second layer of this palimpsest?
Layer 1 (rust lettering): "Whitebread, Earl Russell Inn"
Layer 2 (black lettering): "The Earl Russell, West _______ try"
The location is 143 Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BT (corner of Earl Russell Way) and the sign was revealed from beneath a billboard between 2019–20: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKGDHEaDayoEB6ELA.
Photo: Carla Wakfer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wakfer-60a95a31/).
#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Bristol #Whitebread #EarlRussell #Pubs #Inns #AskFedi
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I‘m convinced that my cat defended me from a demon or ghost or some other inter dimensional being tonight. When I got to bed shortly after 1 am I turned off the lights and he jumped onto my bed and after a while I felt his body shifting or he let himself fall over and suddenly hissed at something in the dark and was immediately quiet after and lied down beside me. Thanks Rune.
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The Horn & Hardart chain of ‘automat’ diners ceased to exist 35 years ago, yet this remnant of their advertising past clings on in Manhattan.
untapped new york has the full story: https://www.untappedcities.com/spot-a-ghost-sign-for-nycs-lost-automat/.
Photo: Robyn Roth-Moise.
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@RickGaehl I was shocked to realise that my first (pre-graffiti) photo of this is almost 20 years old now!
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2007/06/blooms-pianos/
It's a rare example of a locally listed ghost sign in London:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2013/05/local-listing-status-for-hackney-ghostsigns/
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Nice to see a council appreciating a local ghost signs, and commissioning a contemporary mural that recognises it.
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Welcome followers that I've migrated from my previous Ghostsigns account on mastodon.social. I'm now posting that stuff here, alongside my wider adventures in sign painting with @sam .
I won't be offended if you just want the ghost signs stuff and choose to unfollow me and/or follow the #Ghostsigns tag 😊
Pictured is the sign that started all this in the first place: Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen / Walker Bros., Stoke Newington Church St., London N16.