Hiya Folks,
We have returned home after being gone for 19 days. During our trip from Houston, Texas to Winston-Salem, NC and back, we drove through 10 states sight-seeing and seeing what we can find. We stopped at many junk shops/yards, thrift stores, etc. and didn't see very many old road signs or cool old advertising signs. Talking with many of the owners of these shops, they claim to have been cleaned out of those items in recent years.
We did manage to find a few goodies on this trip.
My sister gave us this old rusty sign.
Piggly Wiggly sign from somewhere in northern NC.
Another find in NC.
Found near Texarkana. Plan to repaint the raised word "Plaid" red.
Cheap metal sign to cover leak in roof on our steel shed out back.
A few other treasures... as if we don't already have enough clocks.
The clock to the left is an advertising clock for Postal Telegraph made by Hammond Instrument Co. between 1935-1939. The Royal Crown Cola light most likely came from an old soda dispenser. Plan to re-electrify for use under our awning out back. The old telephone bell and siren I am thinking of connecting to the fire alarm switch we recently acquired and attach to our police lights on the porch.
Observations we made were most shops were totally devoid of signage. We did pass on a few items mainly due to exorbitant pricing. We plan to drive to central Colorado next month and hopefully we will have better luck with finding some cool items.
Cheers!
