In February 2012 I stumbled upon a trove of company documents from the 1940s and 1950s at a demolition site in Footscray, Melbourne. Here I tell the stories associated with those documents: the records of signwriting company Lewis & Skinner, and the tattered books of correspondence connected with writer Morris West and the radio serial company he started and ran, Australasian Radio Productions. Plus the more general exploration of 'ghost signs' that my discovery has sparked.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Ghost signs for sale...attached to a building in Brunswick
Saw this former corner shop for sale yesterday in the real estate section of the paper - featuring a favourite (and, rarely, black) Bushell's Tea sign:
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