Show off your old signs

[Jeff Ivers]

Potato is spelled incorrectly.
Potato-singular.
Potatoes-plural.

Cool sign though, there are many BBQ restaurants around here still using those signs.

This is a restored sign - to just the way it was - spelling and all! When I polished the slat board I could see the outline of all the original lettering! After taking this pic, I changed the lettering to something appropriate for display in my shop.

 

[j p smith]

here are the oldest signs I have

Here is a firewall plate to go with Don's Star sign and a token from the Los Angeles Railway.

Also yesterday I found my water bags that have been in a safe place since my 2014 shop clean up project "borderline insanity"

 

[CT2012]

now that's a sign.

My papaw owned a small town grocery store & gas station in the 60-70's. This hung over the beer cooler my whole life growing up. Now it hangs proudly in my shop. The prices are still there from 79 when he closed the doors for good.

 

[bobcatdan]

Only old sign I have is a magnetic truck sign of my Grandfather's. What really pisses me off is he had a hand painted wooden sign for his business hanging for years in the pole building. Before he had the auction I asked if I could have and he said yeah, lets take it down. No I'll grab it next time as I don't have room right now. Well **** happened and I didn't get down there before the auction. Well **** me, it got sold. Everything eles I have is a reproduction. My avatar is in my front yard of once common road sign.

 

[CT2012]

don your "garage" is beyond words (i looked at your '12 build thread).

the most amazing thing i have ever seen. truly.

enjoy it in good health!

here are the oldest signs I have

 

[southalabama]

The question about Boyd's benches is answered in a thread. Maybe he can point you.

I saved pics of them. The tops are strips of ply he glued up and stained. The back is old barn wood or old wood. The cabinets are an assortment of file cabinets that were painted to match.

He did a good job and I saved several pics fro an old thread.

 

[don long]

don your "garage" is beyond words (i looked at your '12 build thread).

the most amazing thing i have ever seen. truly.

enjoy it in good health!

Thanks CT
The garage is what my retirement is all about. I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed looking it over.

Here is a couple of my newest signs

 

[softailgarage]

Never saw that AC sign Don, I swear, you find the coolest stuff

sent via smoke signals

 

[Hstang]

Wooden Dealer sign. Was a Studebaker and Jeep dealer.

 

[christopher7390]

Thanks CT
The garage is what my retirement is all about. I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed looking it over.

Here is a couple of my newest signs

One day..

 

[boro_boy70]

Here are a few of mine.


This is the sign on the front of my barn. I bought an old apple orchard last year, and this is the sign that was on the barn.



Another old sign I found in the barn. In the 60's & 70's this sign hung in a tree near the road.



This is in the old store, above where the cider tap was.



Some of my Utica Club stuff.





And some Utica Tools stuff. The red one I've had for a few years, the green on I just bought 2-3 weeks ago. I have a couple more, a counter display and a wall cabinet but don't have pics.





When I have time I'll try to get more pics of some of the other vintage signs Hanging on the walls

 

[SILVERPLATE]

 

[don long]

I do like that Studebaker sign

 

[ratdoggy]

Silverplate....
What is that next to the Eco tire inflater...
I ask because one got scrapped yesterday and before I could pull it out of the pile it got smashed with our payloader

 

[kaymccampbell]

I do like that Studebaker sign

Me too. There used to be a similar one, as well as a similar Packard sign along the Rt5 corridor between Albany and Schenectady. Almost makes me feel young, looking at that sign.

 

[SILVERPLATE]

Silverplate....
What is that next to the Eco tire inflater...
I ask because one got scrapped yesterday and before I could pull it out of the pile it got smashed with our payloader

It's a gear lube pump. They are nice vintage inexpensive items to find and restore. Thanks for asking and the positive comments...Mike

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Me too. There used to be a similar one, as well as a similar Packard sign along the Rt5 corridor between Albany and Schenectady. Almost makes me feel young, looking at that sign.

3x on the Studee sign.. Being from SB, I have a kinship to them but nothing much in my garage to show.. Is that an old sign that was restored (presuming that of course based on Kay's comments).. Roughly how much did it run you?

Very nice...
Dennis

 

[SILVERPLATE]

3x on the Studee sign.. Being from SB, I have a kinship to them but nothing much in my garage to show.. Is that an old sign that was restored (presuming that of course based on Kay's comments).. Roughly how much did it run you?

Very nice...
Dennis

Thanks Dennis. The Studebaker Neon Sign is a replica I picked up at the Pate Swap Meet two years. It cost me $1250. It's a very quality sign and I am hoping the guy is there again this coming year.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I think, mind you think, there might still be an old Studebaker dealership building in Schenectady. I suppose if you Google Mapped in the 1400-1800 blocks on State Street, you might catch the wagon wheel detail. If it's still there. They've been doing a lot of teardown since the casino started construction.

 

[KraftwerkMk1Jetta]

boro_boy70 I like you're Utica stuff, its real nice!

I have this old Utica display case that was my grandfathers. No tools in it although the markings are there, and at some point somebody added a few shevles. I use to display old junk.

 

[boro_boy70]

boro_boy70 I like you're Utica stuff, its real nice!

I have this old Utica display case that was my grandfathers. No tools in it although the markings are there, and at some point somebody added a few shevles. I use to display old junk.

Nice case!! I have one that looks exactly like that, but still has the clips and hooks for the tools. I was going to refinish it, but I might just add the tools to it, and hang it the way it is.

 

[don long]

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You scored some nice signs.
I'll bet you traded some bucks for um huh

 

[Gidge]

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Thanks Dennis. The Studebaker Neon Sign is a replica I picked up at the Pate Swap Meet two years. It cost me $1250. It's a very quality sign and I am hoping the guy is there again this coming year.

Very reasonable for a large neon sign... Its on my shopping list now...

 

[MarkG]

Not 'old'----new, but made to LOOK old at my shop, Gasser Signs & Lettering. (except for Potbellys, which was done at their corporate headquarters in Chicago. I would have loved to make that one look old and faded, but their graphic design group was calling the shots there.)

 

[markbugno]

A couple lufkin tools signs and a couple nameplates from blaw-Knox and mesta machine, 2 local builders of steel mill equipment.

Mark







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[kaymccampbell]

Blaw-Knox is also a maker of road paving equipment. I see the name all the time on those big asphalt spreaders.

 

[SILVERPLATE]

Very reasonable for a large neon sign... Its on my shopping list now...

My wife corrects me and says it was $1450. I thought it was a good price then and still do.

 

[NUTTSGT]

This was in the attic of my garage laying across the joists. I had stuf laying on it for a few years before I even realized what it was. I'm assuming it somewhere (1/2 mile away) before you got to my place.



The Pepsi signs are repos

 

[Gigem]

My grandfather's "shingle". Pushing 100 years old. Hung in Lafayette, Louisiana.



Wish I had this one. Great grandfather's store in Rayne, Louisiana in the 1880's...

 

[nine4gmc]

I like the hours, I should have been a physician!

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[powerwagon63]

That's just office hours. They spent a lot of times visiting hospital patients and making house calls. Probably worked a 14 hour day.

 

[Gigem]

That's just office hours. They spent a lot of times visiting hospital patients and making house calls. Probably worked a 14 hour day.

That is for sure! My memory of my grandfather was that he was a doctor 24x7. Worked until the day he died in 1984. He was 87 years old. Came home for lunch and keeled over.

I know he had some poor patients that would pay him with chickens, fish, etc. Found this in the same box with the sign. Guess that makes the sign 85 years old...

 

[aar0s]

Anyone close to Evansville Indiana should check out the dream car museum, free to get in and tons of old signs and stuff, plus some cool cars.

 

[DieselDent]

Just got these two, something different.

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[cliftonbros89]

I have several old signs and advertisement pieces around the house. We also have several reproduction John Deere signs in our shop. But I have one that is my favorite....

I didn't take the dimensions, but it's a good chunk. I worked for an older couple on their small farm during and right out of high school. There was a big old Falstaff sign covered in rust in his barn.

He had moved here and bought the place and fixed it up. A few years later he decided to move. He found a place that was larger and suited his needs better. The last day I worked for him I asked him if he would mind if I would take the old Falstaff sign out of the barn before he left the place. He said no problem. He made the comment, too bad it wasn't in better shape. As we took out the old nails holding it against the wall the sign fell forward only to reveal this one (pictured above) identical to the rusted one in front of it I'd seen years. It was flawless compared to the one had been hiding it all those years. The older gentleman was just as surprised as I was. It was my lucky day. I gave the rusted one away to a friend for a case of beer. This one is still hanging in my parents garage waiting for a better location to be shown off.

We're pretty positive it came from up the road a hundred yards or so where there had once been a local tavern.

 

[txvwnut]

Here's a couple of mine.

 

[kleinergti1]

I just found this in an old building. Double sided as well. Thinking about hanging it up in my shop or selling it

 

[cbusters]

Sign in my game-room from my grandfathers race track in Mississippi.

 

[D110]