contest entry — Gold Medal Flour

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Clicking on the photo will take you to a page in my flickr, where you can find a larger size if you'd like to see it bigger, or look at the one next to it and see the sign for "Hofflin, the Middy Blouse Man" that stands next to it.

On a wall in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Taken before I got a digital camera in 2003. There's a similar sign on a wall in Holyoke, Massachusetts, but without any of the figures. I just dug through four years of my photos, and apparently I didn't regard it as worth the effort to photograph. Go figure.

Comments

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

I love these revealed paintings. YES.

[bradygirl_12]

Yes! We have some of these very old ads on buildings around here and I've always loved them. :)

[dandyads]

yes - love stuff like this

[nebet-het.livejournal.com]

Yes

I'm a huge fan of "ghost paintings" too;)

[evilrob.livejournal.com]

Happily, this still stands. To boot, there's a proposal by an artist that I know to restore this piece to it's original artwork and colors.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Now that actually worries me a little bit. No matter how it comes out (and for some reason I keep thinking of the old lady who ruined the fresco), it won't be the original, which is still standing and in fairly good shape.

Somebody just did that with a big wall sign in Fort Collins, and to me it's not the same painting any more.