This old real estate sign was recently uncovered in the heart of St Kilda's former centre of sin: Grey Street. Of course, it's rapidly gentrifying - as evidenced by the flash new apartments being built on this former down-at-heel site:
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.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Online video of my recent talk on the Lewis & Skinner archive at the State Library of Victoria
If you've ever craved information on ghost signs,
elephants, tea, online archives and mouldy documents, come and take a look here.
The videos by SLV Fellows are on the right hand side of the page: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/library-fellows
The videos by SLV Fellows are on the right hand side of the page: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/library-fellows