Billboard Advertising Magnets

Billboard Harley Warren Merch

Billboard hand sketched as a line drawing

Billboard

Sometimes I think of this stuff in the middle of the night. One hump or two? Humpty Dumpty? Walk a mile for a Camel? Here you go.

A billboard sign advertising a gasoline with “new spring power”. Columbus, Georgia, 1941.

A billboard company worker replacing a billboard sign. 1925.

A soda pop advertisement painted on the side of a brick building. Greensboro, Georgia. 1939.

A soda pop advertisement painted on the side of a building. Halifax, North Carolina. 1938.

A movie billboard promoting a film showing at a local theater. Atlanta, Georgia. 1936

A collection of vintage advertising signs on a fence. Baltimore, Maryland. 1938.

Signs painted on the side of a building advertise a local brand of beer and a traveling girlie show. Cincinatti, Ohio, 1937.

A humorous highway sign informs drivers that Joe's Service is the next convenient stop. Madras, Oregon. 1936.

Quincy market

Here's another digitally altered photograph from an ongoing series of street scenes from my home town of New York City.

lobster sign

Posters covering a barn advertising the Downie Bros. Circus. Lynchburg, South Carolina. 1936.