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“A. Lenowry Gents Hairdresser & Tobacconist”. (It’s now Carina’s Hairdressing, on the main road in Yarram).
Category Archives: Ghost signs
“Is Real Good”
A rather enigmatic ghost sign on the corner of Ormond Rd and Myrnong Crescent, Ascot Vale, VIC 3032, Australia. I’d like to know what was real good!
Post – and the best thing on TV!
Ghost sign on the corner of Ormond Rd and Myrnong Crescent, Ascot Vale, VIC 3032, Australia.
Bar
Moonee Ponds, VIC 3039, Australia.
Asphalt and metal
467 Ascot Vale Road, VIC 3032
Ghost sign at 467Ascot Vale Road, VIC 3032, Melbourne, Australia.
Federal Woollen Mills
The former Federal Woollen Mills building, 13-35 Mackay Street, North Geelong, VIC 3215.
Refreshing
Ghost advertisement for Coca-Cola, on the Queenscliff General Store, corner King Street and Stevens Street, Queenscliff, VIC 3225. It reads:
DRINK
Coca-Cola
DELICIOUS AND REFRESHING
509 Nicholson Street, Carlton North, VIC 3054
George Men’s Hairdresser, ghost sign at 509 Nicholson Street, Carlton North, VIC 3054, Australia.
Photography
The remains of lettering on a former photography studio – perhaps not strictly a ghost sign. The shop is now empty.
The Maori Chief Hotel
The sign is aging but the Maori Chief Hotel is still in business, at 117 Moray Street, South Melbourne, VIC 3205. Details above and below, with a wider view also below. As far as I can make out, there are two layers to the sign, which read:
Maori Chief Hotel
Aaaah!
and
Maori Chief Hotel
Victoria Bitter
Beware of Vehicles
At Ca de Vin, Melbourne GPO, Postal Lane, Bourke St Mall, Melbourne, VIC 3000.
Nestle Chocolate
This lovely ghost sign is at 13 The Crescent, Ascot Vale, VIC 3032, and is visible from the train as you pass through Ascot Vale station in Melbourne. It is on the right-hand side if you are facing city on the Craigieburn line. It reads:
NESTLE
MILK & NUT-MILK CHOCOLATE
The main picture is a cropped close-up of the sign, the picture below is the wider view of the building it graces.
40 Hanmer Street, Williamstown, VIC 3016
Detail (above) and wider ghost sign (below), at 40 Hanmer Street, Williamstown, Victoria 3016.
Next freeway exit to Kyneton
Ghost sign on the road between Kyneton and Malmesbury, Victoria, Australia. The picture above is cropped slightly to better show the lettering, while the picture below shows the wider, lonelier context. I could choose my subject but not my timing: these photos were taken in the harsh midday light of a 40 C degree day.
Wolfe’s Schnapps
Ghost sign on the side of the Queens Head Hotel, High Street, Kyneton, VIC 3444, Australia. I photographed this one while passing through the town in the middle of the day… I’d love to see it in a gentler light.
126 High St, Kyneton, VIC 3444
Office enquiries
Gorgeous detail from yesterday’s post (“Car seat covers“), which I simply couldn’t overlook. It gets a post all of its own.
Car seat covers
Lovely ghost sign at 1-3 The Crescent, at the corner with Ascot Vale Road, Ascot Vale, Victoria 3032, Australia. A custom tyre business still operates from the premises, around the corner from the ghost sign. Here is a wider picture:
Coffee lounge and take-away food
Ghost sign in Puckle Lane, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039, Australia.
Prohibited
520 Macaulay Road, Kensington, VIC 3031
I think this is a magnificent sign, not only because of its size, but also because of the variety in its lettering and the lovely phrase (or brand name?) “electrine candles”. I can’t decipher all the words though. It appears the white writing has been painted over top of the blue. Here is my best attempt so far:
VELVET SOAP
99/100
PERCENT
PURE
ELECTRINE
CANDLES.
I can’t decipher the words in white paint. Perhaps the second of them is “DRAPER”? There may be more words in blue/purple running along the bottom, but I am not sure.
156 Bellair Street, Kensington, VIC 3031
This building has looked locked and unused for as long as I have noticed it (about a year), but is clean and tidy apart from a few cobwebs.
My interpretation of the wording is:
LICENSED M.M.B.W.
W.g. Pearce PLUMBER
PHONE FF 1666
BELLAIR ST.
KENSINGTON
Estimates given
I love the old phone number format! See below for images of the wider sign and the complete building facing the early morning light. At this time of year, leafy trees shade the sign throughout the day.
60 Puckle Street, VIC 3039
Golden in the evening light, the ghost sign at 60 Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039, Australia. My best interpretation of the lettering is the name FRASERS painted over the words DAIRY PRODUCE & SMALL GOODS, partly obscuring them. The complete sign can be seen in the following image:
79 Holmes Rd, VIC 3039
Gorgeous in the morning light, the Marchants sign at 79 Holmes Rd, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039. The rest of the building is also aged and beautiful, dominating the corner of Holmes Road and Grandview Street, although this is the only painted lettering on it.
20 Margaret Street (rear), VIC 3039
There is more than one layer to this ghost sign, at the rear of 20 Margaret Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039. Under the words Astro Furniture and Gifts, I can make out:
MirabellaTravel
Bagenzia Viaggi
“Che Si Distingue”
Moonee Ponds Branch
There is a character I can’t identify at the end of the word “travel”.
12 Margaret Street, VIC 3039
Just beautiful. This is at 12 Margaret Street, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Victoria 3039, Australia. The following image shows the complete sign, which reads:
W. Rayner, Tobacconist
Dairy Maid
Custard Powder
