As a child, I was fascinated by this sign. It was located along the route my family would take into Baton Rouge and I remember sitting in the backseat of our car with my face pressed against the window eagerly waiting to see it. I think this was the first time I ever paid attention to the way letters looked. This sign isn’t perfect, but it is still my favorite.

(Wow. It sure has been a long time since I posted anything. I have been more than busy…)

Most of the sign aficionados I know consider the advent of vacuformed and cut plastic signs to be the beginning of the end. They are probably right, but I’m still kind of obsessed with these things.

I adore “boring” signs like these two. They don’t need fancy swashes or anything like that to get the job done.

I suppose it’s not surprising that this place is near the taxidermist.

Some of the building owners seem to have gone out of their way to preserve old signs. They should get a trophy or something.

The ligature and the super thin parentheses on this one are stellar.

This place is covered in lettering like this. It’s crazy.

“Klein Bros.” That’s all it says. No “Hardware Store” or “Attorney at Law” or “Pet Hotel”. Thus, I have no idea what the Klein brothers do.

Nice afii10029.