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:

The best ghost shop anywhere?

I'm currently in Adelaide, the city I used to live in many years ago. I'll soon be posting other local ghost sign pics, but this find deserves its own post.

Yesterday I explored around Bowden and Brompton, two old industrial inner-city suburbs that used to be down-at-heel but are now in the full swing of gentrification. I remember coming here as a student in the early 1980s in some dubious company...an edgy drifter who had stumbled into the university house I lived in and I had somehow befriended. He took me via train to his mum's house in Bowden, a tiny worker's cottage surrounded by factories,  where he sorted and weighed the pot he was selling to get by. A parallel universe.

Anyway, these days the massive factory complexes in the south of Bowden have been demolished and are currently open spaces waiting for housing to be built on them. The Victorian railway station has been cafe-fied, and the more residential parts to the north are being increasingly renovated and reclaimed.

It's here that I found this reclaimed corner furrier's shop - perhaps the most charming and intact old shop I've seen anywhere, especially with its immaculate red painted glass front. Thankfully the new owners have kept it as it was: