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Archive for category: Signage

   (2007.02.12)

Here I am at the Broadway stop of Vancouver’s SkyTrain, photographing an aberrant sign that uses Meta instead of the unaccountable and perplexing Plantin (also seen at Heathrow Airport, the obvious inspiration).

Just as I lifted my camera, four cops walked by, one of whom stared right at me, as seen here. I took my shot and, with nerves of steel, double-checked it on the LCD. I pocketed my camera and waited for the train.

Try this in Toronto and you get to endure a talking-to by Grandpa Moscoe.

   (2006.12.20)
A red, black, and blue sign wrapped diagonally downward around a concrete column shows white Helvetica letters reading OUT
   (2006.11.25)
Two men use a ladder and power tools to post a set of yellow billboard segments for ‘Beaches Lions Club Christmas in the rk”
   (2006.11.13)

This dry cleaner’s, across from the Loblaws at Manning and Dupont, was abandoned over the spring. Guys in hazmat suits later cleaned the place out. (I thought I had a photo, but now I cannot find it.) It’s been up for lease, admittedly with an imperfect sign, ever since.

Mattress sits propped against plate-glass window labelled DRY CLEANERS 1 HOUR SERVICE in different fonts

Why is this not a Seatonbucks or a Suction Village?

   (2006.11.05)
Neon sign has two lines of orange Tamil lettering divided by a white line, then more Tamil and the number 4165164997

(Q.v.)

   (2006.10.27)
Sign has phone number and ULOCKIT MINI STORAGE in Avant Garde Gothic with custom ligatures
   (2006.10.24)
Handlettered chalkboard sign reads Fresh Cakes and Apple Strudel in upright and cursive
   (2006.10.05)

This is my third full shoot of this hard-to-photograph sign-cum–folk sculpture. I hereby give up.

A dark-blue block the size of a small car sits atop a building. Its raised black ridges on two sides partially surround the words BATTERY TECH written in cutout white letters
   (2006.10.03)

It turns out I had photographed this disused and threatened industrial monolith on Dupont, albeit not very well.

Red brick building has row of windows across its entire third floor and MONO LINO TYPESETTING in metal Plantin type over the raised front entrance

I am daunted by the prospect of having to write a full history of this place, which I called on the telephone as a teenager. I could hear a lot of industrial sounds in the background as I asked the woman (yes) for as many specimen books as they could possibly airlift to New Brunswick.

(Then later I shot the place with a better camera.)

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