Last week I was in upstate New York and discovered this beautiful Art Deco sign on the Syracuse University campus. Photo taken April 7, 2006, in Syracuse, New York.
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I don’t know what’s in this building, but I like the 1970s-style script lettering on their sign. Those ones look like dancing scimitars. Photographed on April 1, 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Recently, my family and I paid a visit to West Virginia for my in-laws’ anniversary. While we were there, my partner, Pat, came across a little place called Fill ’er Up with Memories in Berkeley Springs. I wasn’t with her at the time, but happily she had our camera with her and, knowing how I love this kind of thing, took some photos.
The place itself is a kind of museum in which the proprietor, David Weidemoyer, has put on display his personal collection of “petroliana” as well as his wife’s doll collection and an assortment of toys. It’s not a store, but he’s interested in selling some of the petroliana stuff. He’s become more interested in enameled signs.
When I was a little kid, I had a toy gas station very similar to this. It was made of lithographed tin and plastic. I seem to recall spending a lot of time with it. Kids are strange little creatures.
Some oil cans. I love the script lettering on the Artex can. Not a bit of type on any of these—it’s all hand-lettering.
Old gas price sign. Dream on.
(All photos by Pat Thompson, taken on September 4, 2005.)
Vintage soap package seen in an antique store in Hopkins, Minnesota, December 18, 2004.
A Kodak package design from the early 1950s, from the collection of Knut Simonson. Photo taken January 1, 2005, Cranberry Township, Ohio.
My uncle Knut worked as a graphic designer for Kodak during the 70s and 80s. I visited him recently and discovered he had acquired some really cool old Kodak packages while he was there. This one is my favorite.
I’ve been meaning to get a photo of this sign ever since I first saw it. Over the holidays, we stopped to eat nearby and I remembered to get a few shots of it. Photos taken December 31, 2004 in Owego, New York.