Kim's pic of a brilliant old milk bar in Preston

Love this shot (thanks Kim):

Tony's 'wall insurance', and article in today's Age newspaper about our signwriting exhibition

 Here's the link to today's article. They didn't use the photos this time (not unhappy about that...)

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/faded-signs-haunt-melbourne-streets-20130927-2ujel.html

Also, here's Tony's special 'insurance' for the wall he has just prepared for next week's sign painting extravaganza:

...and here's an article about ghost signs in Launceston, including an interview with yours truly

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/1777001/ghosts-of-yesteryear/

Nice article on Sam Roberts in this blog

Here's an article on Sam Roberts' ghost sign activities. It's on the blog of a sign specialist from Inverell in northern NSW:

http://www.danthoniadesigns.com/blog/better-letters/

More signs, from all over

Here are the most recent fruits of my phone camera labours: a combination of random stops in the car and things noticed on bike trips giving locals info on next week's signwriting exhibtion (more about that coming shortly...)

CBD

Carlton - Robur sign

Footscray/Seddon

Kingsville grocer - one of the locations where a Lewis & Skinner sign was painted

Yarraville #1

Yarraville #2

South Yarraville...spied by accident: another Robur sign

West Brunswick #1

West Brunswick #2

Kensington. Have snapped the sign below previously...but never noticed the one above. What does it say?

Footscray

Footscray. Business still in operation.

Footscray

Footscray. Be probably be gone soon.

Footscray. Vietnamese fashion ghostie.

West Footscray - another locations where a Lewis & Skinner sign was painted

Look down a Footscray driveway....

...and you see this.

Footscray

The big map for the exhibition is being printed...

Thanks Tony for the printing - and the pic:

And here's the blurb for the exhibition, coming in less than two weeks now:

If you’re in and around Yarraville in a couple of weeks, you might be interested in an exhibition of sign writing-related documents from the inner west (paintings, drawings, job sheets) and paraphernalia from 1915 – 1960. The documents, from the former Lewis & Skinner company, were uncovered in Footscray at a demolition site last year, then turned into an online archive (see www.lewisandskinner.com for more details).

Pride of place will be a giant wall map of Footscray, Seddon and Yarraville, taken from a 1945 arial survey, with the signwriting documents attached. Plus every day from 12.00pm to 2.00pm, there’ll be live signwriting on the café wall by Spotswood sign writing artisan and historian Tony Mead.

The exhibition will take place in a comfortable and relaxed upstairs space (with balcony) at Lady Moustache café, 84 Gamon Street, Yarraville. Open 8.00am – 4.00pm every day from Wednesday October 2 to Sunday October 6. The café has great food and coffee too – feel free to stop by.

More details are here:

http://www.vu.edu.au/news-events/events/the-walls-of-melbournes-west-speak-again

Hope to see you there!

A couple of hours around the Adelaide CBD's west end

....during a quick visit for work. And yes, I found a few signs, as follows:

this one is next door to a brothel, opposite what used to be the rehearsal rooms our band practiced in when I was a young fella (it's an apartment complex now). We used to watch the blokes sneak in in our breaks.

layers!