Monday, November 14, 2011

Best Out West elevator, Sheridan Wyoming

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Old elevator in Sheridan Wyoming. This elevator belonged to the Best Out West flour mill, and apparently this was the mill. The hotel next...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Opal, Wyoming

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Old painted store side in Opal, Wyoming. This was a fairly substantial structure, in what was an isolated small town, and as the sign indic...
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Friday, October 7, 2011

L&L Fabrication, Gillette Wyoming

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This is an enormous industrial building in Gillette Wyoming which features a mural of regional businesses on its side. Impressive mural.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Feed Store Elevator, Lander Wyoming

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Classically painted feed store elevator in Lander, Wyoming.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Denver Colorado

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This is an usual modern example of a painted building logo, this one located on the roof of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant in Den...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Dupler Brothers Fur Building, Denver Colorado

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Downtown Denver used to have several furriers and fur warehouses. This was one of them.
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Noland Feed Store

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This is example of a long time business, still in business with a painted brick building. The Noland Feed store, in downtown Casper, Wyoming...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

One you definately do not see anymore, brickwork, Thermopolis Wyoming

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Here's one that you would not see done again, and you might also expect to have been changed since 1945. Swastika motif in brickwork. ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Evanston Wyoming

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Downtown Evanston, Wyoming, with many old painted signs in evidence.

Prairie Publishing Company Window

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The Townsend Hotel--Townsend Justice Center

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A building figuring in several posts below has now entered new service, but with its old painted signs intact. What was once the Townsen...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Cars of the past

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This building serves as the VFW in Lead, South Dakota. It was obviously a fine car dealership, however, offering Hudsons and Terraplanes....

Virgin Mary Mural in Salt Lake City

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I'll admit that this is a bit unusual for this page, but this is a spectacular mural of the Virgin Mary in downtown Salt Lake City. ...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Townsend Ghost Signs Get Reprieve

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As it turns out, the Townsend Hotel sign will remain after all. . . sort of. Actually, it's being repainted. The bricks of the buildi...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Townsend "Ghost" sign to be no more.

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As reported in today's Casper Star Tribune, the Downtown Development Commission has decided that the old sign doesn't comport to the...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Townsend Again

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These photos show the same building depicted immediately below, but with additions. This is the Townsend Building again, in the proces...
Monday, February 2, 2009

Updates, Changes, and Disappearing Signs

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Two of the buildings depicted here no longer look anything like what is depicted below, an amazing change if you consider that these photo...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Natrona Transfer & Storage Company

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Natrona Storage & Moving Company was a moving and storage company that dated back many decades. Their substantial building was built ...
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Ayres Jewelry

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This building is painted with the name of Ayres jewelry. It is perhaps an unusual example, in that Ayres, a very long lasting Casper b...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Jersey Creamery Inc.

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This sign was the business sign for the Jersey Creamery, which was located downtown, near the railroad. Our grandfather/great grandfather...

H-C Ranchwear

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The signs on this building are particularly difficult to read, as the building is so close to a much newer building housing a movie theate...

Gustavsen's Garage

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This building was built in 1921 and has served a variety of businesses over the years. The signs that remain show the various uses. O...
Monday, March 3, 2008

Lou Taubert Ranch Outfitters

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These photographs are of Lou Taubert's Ranch Outfitters, a long time Casper business. The buisiness sells clothing, and as the signs...
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Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Wonder Bar

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These photographs are of the "World Famous" Wonder Bar. The Wonder Bar has operated on Center Street for decades, although it h...

Bowen's Sporting Goods

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For many years, this was Bowens Sporting Goods. The building now houses an Orvis store. When it was Bowens, however, it was one of two m...

Bush Wells

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This photograph depicts the sign for Bush Wells Sporting goods. Bush Wells is a longstanding Casper sporting goods store which is still lo...

The Townsend Building (A. J. Woods)

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This is a sign advertising the Woods For Men clothing store, on the side of the Townsend Building (not to be confused with the Townsend Ho...

Kistler Tent & Awning.

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This is a sign painted on the former location of Kistler Tent & Awning Company. Kistler Tent & Awning still exits, but in a diff...

The Townsend Hotel

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This is the Townsend Hotel, in Casper. The building was built as a substantial, modern hotel, in the 1920s, but fell into disrepair ...