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Jul. 16th, 2009 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe picture of the day is another from my trip through the Keweenau peninsula last year.
I love vintage advertisements that you see painted on top of brickwork. It grabs my imagination to walk through a city like Chicago, full of glass-and-steel behemoths, and come upon the side of an old brick building, perhaps recently exposed due to construction or demolition, that has an ad for corsets, or wagon repair. It really makes me feel a sense of connection to the history of the place I"m in.
I don't know how old this sign actually is; it looks much less faded and weather-beaten than most. But it definitely has a vintage feel to it that made me stop and make a picture.
This sign is in Houghton, Michigan, a town that sits on the south shore of Portage Lake, part of the waterway that connects Lake Superior across the base of the peninsula. Houghton is home to a bunch of neat places, including a vintage movie theatre, the Lode, which I didn't get a very good picture of, unfortunately. I'll probably add a picture when I put together a set of movie houses anyway.
I love vintage advertisements that you see painted on top of brickwork. It grabs my imagination to walk through a city like Chicago, full of glass-and-steel behemoths, and come upon the side of an old brick building, perhaps recently exposed due to construction or demolition, that has an ad for corsets, or wagon repair. It really makes me feel a sense of connection to the history of the place I"m in.
I don't know how old this sign actually is; it looks much less faded and weather-beaten than most. But it definitely has a vintage feel to it that made me stop and make a picture.
This sign is in Houghton, Michigan, a town that sits on the south shore of Portage Lake, part of the waterway that connects Lake Superior across the base of the peninsula. Houghton is home to a bunch of neat places, including a vintage movie theatre, the Lode, which I didn't get a very good picture of, unfortunately. I'll probably add a picture when I put together a set of movie houses anyway.
