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Archive for January, 2006

Great store name

Posted in Store Names on January 29th, 2006

S. Tice-Lewis contributed a great name, Cum Park Plaza in Haw River, N.C. I found it documented on another site.

Kum Park Plaza from lancemccord.com

The 47th Street Art Show

Posted in Art, Roadside Art, Vernacular Art on January 16th, 2006

Joyeria Latina, 47th Street, Chicago47th Street is one of Chicago’s great signage thoroughfares. Here are some recent finds.

More Bert Mania

Posted in Culture on January 16th, 2006

More transcendent Bertness. You might also check out my own musings on Bert.

Bert triumphant

Posted in Culture on January 12th, 2006

Check out this page of fabulous Bert mania:
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1843531&thread_type=voteresults

More pictures

Posted in Art on January 7th, 2006

More new or upgraded pictures from some favorite locations:

Elmos Tire Shop, Montrose

King of Tile, Archer Avenue

D&A 2, Western Avenue

Fresh look at classic gyros

Posted in Art on January 6th, 2006

New pictures of the great — now destroyed — gyros signs from Hellas Gyros on Bryn Mawr, “Home of the Gyros.”



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