Ghost Sign – London

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Reminds me of something that I saw on that one website…is it called Derelict London?
We have some cool ones in Pittsburgh.
Love….Jill
Here’s an oldie and a newbie.

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[Robert Lambie]

love the roo one jill.
i never thought about ghost signs till i came across sign musium a while back. ever since, i have appreciated them…

my thoughts when looking at them is… “we are faced today with the task of creating a sign” looking at the OLD works of art we see dotted around, makes you think with the technolegy of computers tc today. how did these guys magange creating signs years PLUS AGO…. kinda puts us all to shame 😕

and to think some of us “think” we have talent!

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Here’s another cool one. This was once The Stanley Theater. Saw Bob Dylan, Adam Ant, & Gary Numan there (not at once) Now it is the Benedum Center, but they still have the cool old electric sign from the 1920s.
Love….Jill

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[Robert Lambie]

jill, i must take a picture of barra lands in glasgow. its the biggest, “oldest” neon sign i know of, has to be 50’x100′ in size. looks crap during the day, but “amazing” at night. the whole place is getting pulled down soon.

crying shame 😕

[Shane Drew]

You’ll like these then 😛

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[Shane Drew]

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SIGNS/SIGNS … nhome.html is a good link to more too

Makes you stop and think about the true talent of these guys, most would have been done on hardood planks via a pulley system from the roof. If any know John Jordan from OZ at your letterhead meets, he can tell you some stories about this sort of thing. He wrote am article in one of our trade mags in memory of another old painter and friend, and it was trully an enlighting experience.

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[Nicola McIntosh]

i love all those old signs, especially the paint paste one 😀

nik

[Robert Lambie]

brill link shane, i too love the paint paste one.
so many years ago, no cherrie pickers, projectors, computers etc nothing but true talent!

[Roy Roffey]

ive just come back from london today and all ican remember seeing was lots of largers in soho 😳 😳

missed all the signs 🙁 🙁

[Terry Bull]

I know these are not as high but ii get a real buzz out of painting on walls
i’d recommend it over a lump of foamex anyday
The puter does make it a lot easier to plan it though

Terry

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[Jill Marie Welsh]

Excellent work as always, Terry.
Here is a cool link, part of a cool site.
Love….Jill

http://www.derelictlondon.com/murals_signs.htm

[Robert Lambie]

very tidy work terry, always a pleasure seeing your stuff mate. 😉

[Shane Drew]

nice work Terry. Yet another talent on these boards

[Andrew Boyle]

🙂

http://www.ilike.org.uk/photos/index.html

[Nicola McIntosh]

brilliant link andrew i recognised a good few signs on there 😀

especially the stracathro services…i cring everytime i pass it going up to aberdeen….i always say going past ‘the guy that did that should have been shot’ 😕 i know… i know not very nice of me 😉

nik

[Andrew Boyle]

I was the same Nik…….. the cafes Largs & Troon etc……surprised how many I knew 😀

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/signs/

[Robert Lambie]

whate very woman wants (aka) “whateveries” is a cool one! 😉

[Andrew Boyle]

quote Robert Lambie:

whate very woman wants (aka) “whateveries” is a cool one! 😉

There was another nickname (!)

We had do to instore boards…… purple,blue, magenta, pale blue, and yellow ……….. Futura EB on 5mm foamex aaaaaah

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Andrew Boyle:

there was another nickname (!)

yep just remembered it there…………….. 😮 😉

nik

[Peter Normington]

Some good, some bad, some ugly,
Is it not the same today?
Old does not always mean good.
Nostalgia is a fine thing
Peter

[Robert Lambie]

i think some old are crap too… but i do think some old tacky ones represent a certain style/time from the past. which makes them although badly designed, classics! well in my eyes anyway 😕 :lol1:

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Robert Lambie:

i think some old are crap too… but i do think some old tacky ones represent a certain style/time from the past. which makes them although badly designed, classics! well in my eyes anyway 😕 :lol1:

spot on 😉

nik

[Andrew Boyle]

same as high waisted flared trousers [6 buttons] 😀

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Andrew Boyle:

same as high waisted flared trousers [6 buttons] 😀

oooh……i remember the guys wearing them with the big square toed shoes………cant remember what they called them….they had segs in them 😕 😉

nik

[Robert Lambie]

brouges? (spelling) :lol1:

[Ramj]

It’s hard to think we’ll be looking back at now and laughing at the clothes, especially since fashions seem to be cyclical, we’ll all be wearing platforms and those high waisted flared trousers and laughing at what we were wearing in the “00’s”

[Andrew Boyle]

quote Nicola McIntosh:

quote Robert Lambie:

i think some old are crap too… but i do think some old tacky ones represent a certain style/time from the past. which makes them although badly designed, classics! well in my eyes anyway 😕 :lol1:

spot on 😉

nik

Today near the Barras

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[Nicola McIntosh]

now that is swish 😀

nik

[Peter Normington]

Are we talking about the brogues the guy is wearing Nik, or the carrier bag?

Peter

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Peter Normington:

Are we talking about the brogues the guy is wearing Nik, or the carrier bag?

ha-ha nice one peter….the lovely master piece above the blokes head 😉

nik

[Peter Normington]

At least it seems to have lasted a while
Peter