Melbourne Ghost Signs

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Author: Sean Reynolds From the gold-rush years to the Swinging Sixties, from Robur Tea to Tarax soft drinks, this city can never settle. In a process of continual renewal, old buil dings are incorporated into new, both uncovering and obscuring snippets of history. Ghost signs provide hints to our common heritage, ready to be picked up by the keen eye and quick shutter.Sean Reynolds, a transplanted American, first became fascinated bythese old signs while walking in Yarraville and Footscray with his young daughter during their daily lockdown outings. He loved the hand-painted letters, the intricate glasswork, and the old factories marketing brands he’d never heard of before: big names like Uncle Tobys and Four’n Twenty, but also smaller ones, no less important, like ‘Miss Watson’s Motor Garage’ or the ‘St Kilda Coffee Palace’. Join him in a tour of fascinating photos - sometimes nostalgic, sometimes gaudy -and the stories behind them - variously delightful, heroic, and tragic. Find the cities behind the city you thought you knew, one ghost sign at a time. • ISBN 9781761380815 • Scribe Publications • Hardcover, 176 pages, full colour, 26.3 x 29.7 cm Show more