12 Nov 2009
Concord Painting
The ever prolific Frank Jump who blogs on ghostsigns over in New York has uncovered a nice piece of history having been contacted by a relative of someone who painted this sign [update: link no longer available] over there.
It turns out that the company that he worked for (Concord Painting) is still in business and although their main work looks to be bog standard painting and decorating they still have a strand of work painting advertising. Here’s them hard at work on one for Stolichnaya vodka:
I guess they would be direct competitors of Colossal Media, there’s a gallery with more of their work here.
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