1 Dec 2009
Chatting with the Ritual Project
I did an interview with the New York project as it reaches its climax. Read it in full here and find out more about their work here.
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F.W. Woolworth Co. and the Winston-Salem Sit-Ins
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Bomb Shelter
Shelter, Lord North Street (photo by Pryere) John AKA Pryere sent me this great photo of an old sign on Lord North Street in London. It is a relic from the war and points directly at the front door of number 16 (see below), although refers to vaults under the pavement. Given the proximity of […]
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Walldogs, Ghost Signs and Slappy Hooper
In 2009 the Colorado Gambler published an article by Cathleen Norman called ‘Walldogs, Ghost Signs and Slappy Hooper’. It packs a surprisingly large quantity of material about the history of painting signs on walls in the USA into a very short piece. However, the opening sentence of the main body might be one for the […]
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