  Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 2601 Registered: 10-2003 |
 Daniel Webster on Warren Ave. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 2602 Registered: 10-2003 |
 Finsterwald's on Mich (now painted over, hooray for city ordinances) | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 264 Registered: 08-2006 |
It was the main way of advertisement for the businesses back in the prime of the city of Detroit, before they came up with 40 feet tall billboards and bogus big fat drive-by signs | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 7 Registered: 08-2006 |
Great Thread I see these all over the city when they show up when a building is dozed. Glad to see others taking interest in them, Ill have to get some pics to include here... | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 266 Registered: 08-2006 |
By the way Barnes, that may be a pic for a Ben Franklin's store, maybe, just a thought. | ||
Eric_c Member Username: Eric_c Post Number: 866 Registered: 11-2003 |
My favorite is an old realty ad on Gratiot near Seymour: "Detroit's East Side - for your best land value!" | ||
Busterwmu Member Username: Busterwmu Post Number: 285 Registered: 09-2004 |
There's an old faded Vernors Ginger Ale ad painted on the side of a building at the corner of Dearborn Ave. and Harbough St. on Detroit's SW side in the Delray Neightborhood. It's cool to see, but hard to get a photo of due to a brick wall and tree almost obscuring it. With the coming winter and lack of tree leaves, it might be easier though. | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 317 Registered: 08-2006 |
Everyone else on this site, feel free to post your opinion on a "ghost billboard". I do want people to respond on this thread please. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1436 Registered: 06-2004 |
I wish we could go back to those and dump most of the nasty signs and billboards around now. | ||
Treelock Member Username: Treelock Post Number: 166 Registered: 03-2005 |
There's a great ad for some kind of long-gone brand of vodka on the side of a brick building on the east side of Livernois just south of the Lodge. It definitely caught my eye. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1102 Registered: 01-2004 |
That first pic is a cigar ad, not a Ben Franklin store ad btw. http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 6/10/09/look_at_those_signs.ht m | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 1656 Registered: 10-2003 |
For Busterwmu...I took this photo of the Vernors ad in Delray 2 to 3 years ago:  | ||
Treelock Member Username: Treelock Post Number: 168 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's like the urban version of the ads painted on the sides of barns for products like Mail Pouch chewing tobacco. | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 15 Registered: 08-2006 |
At Joy and inkster in westland the business owner repainted a sign just today exactly like the vernors sign above. they tore down some buildings next to it and it was exposed. | ||
Reetz12 Member Username: Reetz12 Post Number: 93 Registered: 09-2005 |
What is the city ordinance regarding painting ads on buildings? I thought recently there was something stating that no "new" ad spaces could be painted on buildings? | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 386 Registered: 08-2006 |
there an ordinance on that but no ordinance on signs that are just outrageous, like those Auto Parts store sign sings and Fast Food Signs and so forth. Personally, I think they should have a limit to the amount of the bogus, I call them "drive by signs" |
