"Building Paintings"
All photos by Adam Paul
"Building Paintings"
All photos by Adam Paul
DOWNTOWN'S WEST SIDE - RETAIL AND WAREHOUSE DISTRICTSDOWNTOWN'S EAST SIDE - FINANCIAL AND MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS
MIDTOWN - COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL
OUTER WEST SIDE - COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL
PAINTED WALLS:
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Painted walls can also reveal national or regional products as well, such as this one for DAVIS PAINTS that can be seen at Wilkens Avenue and Smallwood Street. A previous ad featuring the same product cam be made out beneath this one.
Some walls take some squinting to make out, such as this one, pronouncing the Walbrook Theatre as being "Air-Conditioned." A great throwback to theatre days gone by. Many thanks to Daniel Gibbs for this lead.
Certainly among the most vintage of the area's painted ads is this jewel for Caton Cigar, on Curtis Avenue just below Locust Street. Most motorists never notice this old ad, as the street was long ago converted to a one-way street NORTHbound!
To contrast, a high visibility sign for Charles A. King and Sons Coal awaits motorists travelling North on Hanover Street at Wells Street. Can we still get Coal at $8.00 a top off?!?
Located at Herkimer and Carey Streets near Carroll Park lies this sign for some product of the Maryland Biscuit Company. Currently in the Summer, this sign is obscured by the tree.
Remember S&H Green Stamps? This sign on Pennsylvania Avenue below Cumberland Street may help to jog your memory!
It takes some squinting to decipher this gem on Lafayette Avenue East of Bentalou Street, but this Richfield BethOline sign retains a classic original charachter.
Community activists have largely succeeded in removing tobacco billboards from their neighborhoods. Let us hope that they consider this old Bull Durham ad on the East side of Pulaski Street above Pratt Street pretty harmless!
Another even more vintage Bull Durham sign can be spotted on this abandoned building on Lafayette Avenue just West of Pennsylvania Avenue. Many Thanks to Wayne Schaumberg for this great lead!!!
Proceeding East on West Belvedere at Cordelia in Pimlico reveals what looks to be an ad painted on this wall, but hidden by the modern billboard.......
Sure Enough, there's a classic hidden behind the modern, an ad for none other than Hendler's Ice Cream, "The Velvet Kind!"
"The Greatest Bread Value in Town" declares this painted wall along the Schmidt bakery at Edmondson Avenue and Poplar Grove Street.
A two for one bonus awaits travelers along West Baltimore Street at Kinsey (the site of the old West Baltimore Street Transit Loop). Not only is there a nicely intact ad for the "Loop Inn," but also a faded face of an ad for National Beer!
Saratoga Street at Carrollton Avenue is the site of another neat old painting, more of a designation than an ad, as a maker and dealer of "Carriages."
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