orange smile syrup: Vintage Advertising - Orange Smile Soda - 2001 S. 9th Street in Soulard (St. Louis, Missouri) - 08/08/09 08:35 AM
Whether called building signage, billboards, mural ads, ghost ads, phantom ads or a dozen other names, I love to take walking tours of our great city neighborhoods and enjoy seeing vintage advertising in the form of faded lead paint on brick advertsing on old commercial buildings. 
Whereas signs fall into disrepair and are removed, these faded ads on the side of buildings often last for several decades or more and are the last reminder of a commercial business long since shuttered or a product no longer manufactured.  Here is the first installment for this vintage advertising series capturing vintages ads in St. Louis, Missouri:  Orange Smile … (14 comments)

 

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