South Fairmount

 

Along Queen City Avenue.

What's particularly interesting, is that there's a painted

sign on the brick: "Home of the State Avenue..."

and the rest is covered by the Summit View Apartments sign.

(They are still open.)

On the western face of the building.

Nigh unreadable.

But it reinforces the rule:
Find a ghost sign,

check the other side of the building.

(Thanks to Ms. J. Fiesta for the assist.)

Lunkenheimer

 

Look Familiar?

Acquired at the annual book sale for the Cincinnati-Hamilton County.

And it's a durn good album too.

Some new ghost signs next week, as we return to our usual fare.

Spring Garden Building

 

Peter something & Sons.  Guessing from the "chapel" sign towards the right, I'm going to guess this was a funeral home at one point.

 

Two other points of interest...

 

On the left, above the door, there's the stonework "Spring Garden Building" title above the door.  (That half of the structure is apartments, and they're occupied.)  And above the billboard, on the east corner of the presumed funeral home, there's another ghost sign.

 

 

It appears to have read "Bunn" or "Bun" or "Dunn", but that's all we can guess at.

 

Also, time is running out for entries into the Ghostsigns calendar contest, and we'd like your input on what we should enter.

The Mythical Sign Graveyard

They're not so much ghost signs as sign carcasses.

In South Fairmount, at the end of Ernst, at the bottom of the north face of what some call "Nob Hill".

The neighborhood has a few houses, a u-store-it type facility, a taxi company, and in a fenced in yard, these.

As referred to earlier...

The Enquirer did run a story on what they term "Ghost Signs", which is probably a better, catchier name than what I use:  "Old, Faded Advertisements, Often Painted On Brick Walls".

And they used a photo of one I just happened to find recently, myself:

Again with the Barq's. (There's one of these in Lower Price Hill I'm going to get this weekend.)

Vertical and Horizontal

All over the place.  There's another painting on the south end of the building, but the light wasn't right for a photo.

South Fairmount, on Beekman.