PHOTOS: The Disappearing Ghost Signs Of The Rust Belt
Randy Fox
|
Posted 01.09.2013
|
Travel
Read More:
Ghost Signs,
Signs,
Clairton,
Ohio Valley,
Rca Televisions,
Ohio,
The Disappearing Ghost Signs of the Rust Belt,
Mail Pouch Tobacco,
Advertisements,
Coke,
New Kensington,
Huffington Travel,
Pepsi,
Appliance Stores,
Virginia,
Martins Ferry,
Petersburg,
Coca-Cola,
Pennsylvania,
Advertising,
Randy Fox,
Launder Lux,
Rust Belt,
Huffington Post,
White Owl Cigars,
Pittsburgh,
American Elegy,
Honest Scrap,
Zenith,
Travel News
Ghost signs are nearly the equivalent of what cave drawings were to our early modern day explorers: signifiers of how previous lives lived, worked and maybe the kind of beer they drank or the cigarettes they smoked. While these ghost signs populate many towns in our country, they are in the process of leaving us. As the wrecking ball flies and mundane urban renewal efforts commence, we're losing more relics every day.
