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SteveC


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JoeG, I don't know how much you know about the Flat Iron blg.



All I know is it's shaped that way because the train turned off there and went behind Safeway past the cute little station that's still there and then went down what's now Anderson Drive and through the tunnel that's being re-opened for people and bikes. (I'm excited). If you stand in the back left side of the Safeway parking lot you can clearly see the path it took passing The Flat Iron Blg.

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JoeG;631 wrote: After posting I decided to go back to "B" st. and get the shot...had to ask some of the homeless to move out of the way....fortunately there was no graffiti on the sign....it says Victory Grocery with a coca-cola add....there's something about these old signs that's haunting...footprints from the past that I'm sure most people don't notice.



Excellent find, Joe, thanks for the pic. Some towns are actively preserving these kinds of signs. Looks like here no one's deliberately painted this one over, but it would be nice if there was an actual program to protect them permanently. They're as much a part of our cultural heritage as anything else from that era.

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After posting I decided to go back to "B" st. and get the shot...had to ask some of the homeless to move out of the way....fortunately there was no graffiti on the sign....it says Victory Grocery with a coca-cola add....there's something about these old signs that's haunting...footprints from the past that I'm sure most people don't notice.



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Meadowsweet Rich;629 wrote: I have a sign that is from WWll era that came from Larkspur, it is a 4' x8' plywood sign in red, white & blue that says 'Keep 'em flying' and advertises Hilman's Master Bread on it, and shows a loaf of bread. It came from the building just across the street from the Blue Rock that was once called 'Frizzi's Salon' I believe, I was driving through Larspur in the 1980's & the sign was propped up against the side of the building which at the time was 'Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors', a note taped to the sign said 'free to good home'. I'll see about posting a pic of it soon.



In the 40s and 50s it was a soda fountain everyone called "the creamery." It shows up nicely in one of the first shots of the Larkspur segment of "Impact" shot in 1948:





(The population in the sign refers to that of the fictitious town of "Larkspur, Idaho,", not the real one, which was around 1500-2000 at the time.)

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I have a sign that is from WWll era that came from Larkspur, it is a 4' x8' plywood sign in red, white & blue that says 'Keep 'em flying' and advertises Hilman's Master Bread on it, and shows a loaf of bread. It came from the building just across the street from the Blue Rock that was once called 'Frizzi's Salon' I believe, I was driving through Larspur in the 1980's & the sign was propped up against the side of the building which at the time was 'Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors', a note taped to the sign said 'free to good home'. I'll see about posting a pic of it soon.

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Anybody have any info about these old fading signs? The first one is in San Rafael at Tamalpais and 5th Ave....Philipps Flowers with coca-cola ad







The second one is in Mill Valley on the side of the Sequoia Theater....Mill Valley Service Garage...Greasing Accessories....Studebaker Service Station On The Square.....I shot this in 2002 so it may already be gone because I believe they have painted that bldg.







Also does anybody know of any other hidden old signage such as these? I'd like to get shots of them before they disappear. There used to be a great old coca-cola ad on the side of the bakery on West 4th St. in San Rafael years ago but it's since been painted over. There's still one in the alley on B St. next to the homeless dining hall but I can never get a shot of it because the alley is always full of people hanging out. Also does anyone know if the old faded Grace Bros. Beer sign on the side of the Flat Iron Saloon (2nd & B st.) in San Rafael is real? and what's the history of the Flat Iron Bldg?...thanks.

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