Ghost Signs of Pittsburgh, Part Three

Three, maybe four, in one shot. Can you spot them all?

This one is so far gone, without the zoom, it's easy to miss.

All of these were along Third Street.

Checking on Google Street View, I regret not going down Fourth Street while we were there.

 

Ghost Signs of Pittsburgh, Part Two

Ghost Signs of Pittsburgh, Part One

Really curious what the vines are covering: Sanitary, union made what?

Note the vertical lettering along the left side of the building:

Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco

 

Please enjoy these Mail Pouch Tobacco signs spotted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike during a recent vacation.

The top one is (obviously) restored. The bottom one appears to be an original.

There was another around 131 mile marker, but we were unable to get a photo.

Our thanks to Mr. B. Johnson for getting this one.

You can find out if there's a Mail Pouch Tobacco sign near you.

Destruction Revelations

Sometimes... no. Often. No. Frequently. No. Let's stick with sometimes.

Sometimes the destruction of one building will reveal an unexpected ghost sign.

Or at least a partial, as in this saloon hand, visible after the closing and demolition of

of Campanellos on Central Avenue.

 

Gone, Not Forgotten

 

The Davis Furniture Building, a long time favorite of ours, is no more.

The roof collapsed in early June of this year, after years of neglect, and it was torn down.

Let's remember it as we found it: vacant, rotting, and covered in ghost signs.

The Rybolt Heating-Cooling sign here was painted over.

Ghost Signs of Northern Kentucky

 

Latonia, a neighborhood of Covington. 

Tim's closed down before the pandemic.

Note the details, like the Latonia sign, and the L&N locomotive. L&N stood for Louisville and Nashville.)

And directly across the street from Tim's was John's.

From Covington, we skip over to Newport:

The original sign for Newport's famed Green Derby has been uncovered as the tavern undergoes renovations.

(This one we've featured before.)

Back west, to Ludlow:

And then skipping back east to West Covington, for the piece de la resistance.

A cornerstone marks the building as erected in 1867, but we suspect the beer sign isn't that old.

We still can't tell what kind of beer was advertised at what is now the Playhouse Bar.