Tag: Vintage advertisements

• Fading Ads of Chicago

  

                For more than 40 years, Joe Marlin, author of the just released Fading Ads of Chicago, photographed ghost signs, those fading advertisements painted on the sides of brick buildings, a onetime popular way to advertise in the U.S.               “I’d take notes when I was driving to and from work on the west side…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  June 25, 2019

  Chicago, Historic Architecture, History

  History Press, Vintage advertisements