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<\/a><\/div>\nWikipedia, my source for everything that I didn’t know had a name, says they were most common before the Great Depression and that the artists who painted them were known as “wall dogs.”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nIn some places, there’s an effort to preserve or restore them. Oftentimes, they just fade away like so much history.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nI’m not even sure, myself, where I took these couple photos, but for the last one. On the way to somewhere else is all I remember.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThis one is a favorite, simply because I get to see it most often. It’s on the way to Tallahassee and, despite many tries, I’ve yet to get a photo that I like.<\/p>\n
Apparently, other people like to photograph these old signs<\/a>, too. And if you’re so inclined and have some favorites, you might consider adding them to the Ghost Sign Project<\/a> so other people can find them, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m happy to finally have a name for these faded advertisements that I like to photograph. I find them painted on falling-down buildings along rural roads and in the old parts of sleepy Southern towns. Wikipedia, my source for everything that I didn’t know had a name, says they were most common before the Great … Continue reading Ghost signs<\/span>