Ghost Signs, Highland Park, Mich.
“It’s a reminder of our own timeline and how quickly things become obsolete. One minute people had thriving businesses building buggies, and the next minute Henry Ford is pushing out automobiles on an assembly line and nobody wants horse and buggies anymore.”
Frank Jump, author Fading Ads of New York City (The History Press, 2011)
From In a City Fighting Blight, ‘Ghost Signs’ as Portals to a Bygone Era (NYT)
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