Bright white paint of “The Harmon” covers past F.S. Harmon ghost signs at 1944 Pacific Ave. in Tacoma on July 12, 2023. Jack Glenn jglenn@thenewstribune.com “The Harmon” is brightly inscribed in white ...

Hidden on the walls of old buildings scattered across Louisville are fading remnants of the city’s past. They’re called “ghost signs,” and they’re typically hand-painted advertisements of bygone ...

Few things make local history buffs more giddy than when a construction project reveals a “ghost sign” — an old, hand painted advertisement from decades ago that has somehow been preserved. It just ...

A faded, white sign reading "West End Market" painted aside an empty building in Detroit's Delray neighborhood is all the remains of the thriving corridor once known as "The Avenue." The shuttered ...

Mike Roe, the executive creative director for Milwaukee marketing agency Hoffman York, got interested in ghost signs when he noticed one outside his office window in the Third Ward, and then started ...

On Thursday, Oct. 9, I was determined to be the first curiosity seeker to explore the newly opened Austin History Center addition inside the modernist John Henry Faulk Building at 800 Guadalupe St.

These ghost signs, which appear to have remnants of the words “drugs,” “cigars” and possibly “candy” or “cafe,” were revealed recently when construction started on the building at the southwest corner ...