One more batch from Champaign

 

Albert Eisner, Wholesale Grocer, opened a 

number of Piggly Wiggly stores, before

being consumed by what is now Jewel.

If there was a name of the company whose

motto is "Honesty Best Policy" we didn't

see it. Insurance best guess.

Historical Retail of Champaign

 

Can you tell what this one says?

Even with the zoom-in, it's difficult.

Cash

or

Credit

Then there's the Greenman's,

with the old sign sitting atop

something much newer.

Can you tell what this is?

Ms. J. Fiesta had to tell us.

Zooming in to the bottom

for a hint.

How about another angle?

A&P Grocery

(The sign is at 118 E. University.

We don't know where the store was.)

A New Find and a Questionable Find

 

On Vine Street in Mount Auburn.
It's a pretty heavily traveled street, and we wonder 
why we hadn't seen this earlier. We strongly 
suspect there was another building blocking it
that was recently torn down.

Green Street, between Race and Elm.

We have some questions about this one.

It looks to be in really good shape, save the name of the proprietor

being unreadable. Suggests it was covered by boards or something.

But if you look at the Google Street View from 2018, 

there's no indication of a physical barrier protecting the lettering.

And there's no indication of lettering either.

Even more peculiar, the thin rods running the length of the sign are visible

in the Google Street View, as are the brackets on the corner.

And neither the brackets nor the rods seem to have been disturbed.

 So, we're not sure if this is a true ghost sign or a clever reproduction.