My next-door neighbor was the first on my street with a “Black Lives Matter” sign erected in her front yard. She pushed it into the black-mulched ground among her hosta plants not long after the…
Category: Signs
Store signs leave a huge impression
Posted in Advertising, Businesses, history, and Signs
When I saw the broom holder with the attached Bond Bread metal sign, I knew I had found what I was looking for. The wooden holder was exactly what I needed to store the vintage…
Jim Crow signs separated a people & a nation
Posted in Advertising, Black history, collectibles, Signs, and slavery
Lest we forget. That’s what came to my mind when I saw the Jim Crow signs in the glass case at the auction house. As I stood there looking at the signs outside the case,…
‘Ground Round’ sign recalls a favorite eating place
Posted in Advertising, and Signs
The sign was lying on its side, its letters twisted, but its big sunshine-yellow words clicked with the auction-goer. “Ground Round a family fun place to eat and drink” were deeply carved in the sign. He…
Rattlesnake keychain, widemouth bass mailbox & more
Posted in Animals, Art, collectibles, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, furniture, Signs, and Unusual
The rattlesnake was showing its fang, but who could blame it. Someone had chopped off its head and made it into a keychain. The rattlesnake’s angry countenance was one of two on a shelf in…
I’m sure most people who saw the sign chuckled out loud or silently. Maybe a few of us found it offensive, but moved past it. It was a metal sign with black lettering on a…
Coney Island signs offer women not hotdogs
Posted in Advertising, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Signs, and Women
I have no memories of good times at the fabled Coney Island in New York, but my auction buddy Janet does. She grew up in Brooklyn, and has stories to tell of going there for…
S&H Green Stamps sign evokes memories of Don Lee poem
Posted in Black history, Books, and Signs
I could see the S&H Green Stamps sign clear across the room, hanging on a peg wall with its red, white and green colors pocked with a few black spots and nicks. The sign was…
A pig & lamb with a French accent
Posted in Advertising, collectibles, food, and Signs
The wooden pig and lamb had caught the couple’s eye. They didn’t know what to make of it and to be honest, neither did I. I had spotted the two (animals, not people) when I…
PBS’ ‘Market Warriors’ is one dumb show
Posted in collectibles, Signs, and TV
My friends had been pushing me to watch the new PBS show “Market Warriors” since it began airing a couple weeks ago. Not because it was entertaining and they thought that perhaps I could learn something from it.…