Bye Robur sign (hello grocery sign)

A couple of posts ago I described the uncovering of a grocer's sign in Reynard Street Coburg:

http://findingtheradiobook.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/an-uncovering.html

What I didn't realise then was that the demolition of the milk bar building that covered the sign also resulted in the loss of another sign - one I posted a pic of in February:

http://findingtheradiobook.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/robur-sign-harding-street-west-coburg.html

Here are Google Pics of the former milk bar, with the destroyed Robur sign and the garden of the residence that used to be there until last week:

Sydney ghost signs

Have just returned from a few days in Sydney, a city whose ghost signs are relatively scarce, judging by my few days of meandering. It has the requisite old buildings, the large population and the intense competition. But maybe this beautiful and lively centre of commerce has had less of the boom-bust dynamic of Melbourne - growth followed by neglect that allows things to be created, then to sit and be? In Sydney, it seems, things are always moving - renewed, torn down, painted over. But a few traces have remained. Here are the ones I've found.

First, Glebe Point Road:

Then the CBD:

 Newtown:

 St Peters:

Strawberry Hills:

Some more signs from the last few weeks

Time has been limited of late to post, but, thanks to camera phones, I've been able to snap. Here are a some signs photographed in passing over the last month or so:

Richmond

CBD

The 'bottom pub, Bunyip, Gippsland

Carlton - sign upon sign

Chinatown

Fairfield 1

Fairfield 2

Garfield, Gippsland

Near the Victoria Market

Near the market 2

Brunswick

North Melbourne

Coburg

Richmond

St Kilda

City

An uncovering

This morning I was dropping my kids off at school. Directly opposite the school, I saw this: what an unexpected and marvellous uncovering.

I'd previously snapped the end of this sign when the building was there, but had no idea what else was there. See: http://findingtheradiobook.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/one-from-friend-and-one-i-missed-in.html