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“A. Lenowry Gents Hairdresser & Tobacconist”. (It’s now Carina’s Hairdressing, on the main road in Yarram).
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“A. Lenowry Gents Hairdresser & Tobacconist”. (It’s now Carina’s Hairdressing, on the main road in Yarram).
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!
Ghost sign on the corner of Ormond Rd and Myrnong Crescent, Ascot Vale, VIC 3032, Australia.
Moonee Ponds, VIC 3039, Australia.
Ghost sign at 467Ascot Vale Road, VIC 3032, Melbourne, Australia.
George Men’s Hairdresser, ghost sign at 509 Nicholson Street, Carlton North, VIC 3054, Australia.
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
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.
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.
Gorgeous detail from yesterday’s post (“Car seat covers“), which I simply couldn’t overlook. It gets a post all of its own.
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.
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.
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”.