Latest interview with yours truly - this time on ghost signs in Adelaide

Here's the link - has some nice pics as well.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/special-features/adelaides-fading-brick-signs/story-fnmp5xnf-1227547614913

And here's a link to a PDF of the story if you're not able to access the online version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xamrkd1bblns9ak/Adelaidenowinterview2015.pdf?dl=0

The rest of the Adelaide ghost signs

Continuing on from the last post with Port Adelaide ghost signs... here are the rest of the signs I found during my recent SA visit.

Firstly, Semaphore. Plus a few more in the nearby Port:

Not ghost signs, but a couple of great old-school Port Adelaide milk bars:

Next, Bowden/Brompton:

 On the road to Hallett Cove (you can't see the sign too well though...):

A great shop on Payneham Road in St Peters:

 And way north in Gawler:

A bunch more SA ghost signs - starting with Port Adelaide

Here are some more ghost signs from my recent SA visit.

Anyone who's into ghost signs and in Adelaide should make a beeline for Port Adelaide - unlike other port areas in this country, this one hasn't been renovated to an inch of its life. Not though from lack of trying I hear...it's just that the investment dollars didn't follow. As it stands, the port still boasts blocks of vast un-apartmented Victorian warehouses and wool stores. As with the rest of Adelaide, there are more Victorian ghost signs around than the inter-war and post-war signs you tend to get in Melbourne and other places. There's a thesis to be had in why, but for the time being here are the pics:

Here's a great palimpsest. It's on the side wall of a row of Victorian terraces directly opposite the town hall, and that have seen better days, in the nicest way. Note the large sign for tea:

And here is some shots of the shops at the front. The cake shop goes back to 1870:

Staring inside at an empty shop with inlaid floor:

Now for the rest of the port.

There has been some 'ye olde' restoration/repainting as per the next three...but not too much:

 

One of the famous SA German settlers...Muecke means 'mosquito' in German.

 Old sign, new development

Not a ghost sign, but fabbo bit of early 20th century orientalist typography