signage

[kurt]

Check out this sign I salvaged.....

It's iron w/enameled finish; it weighs about 10 pounds. The washer(s) in the corners are lead. The colors of the enameling are amazing. How about them lightning bolts?

Whadda'yall think? 1920's?

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[hausdok]

Very kewl!

I used to see 'em by the transformer housings at the railroad tracks near my house when I was growing up. They'd be all shot up by hunters.

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Mike

[homnspector]

I just wonder how many people are going to die because you removed that sign.[:-weepn]

[kurt]

Originally posted by homnspector

I just wonder how many people are going to die because you removed that sign.[:-weepn]

It wasn't on any equipment; it was in a junk pile. I would never even get near the sort of equipment that sign was on.

[DonTx]

One has to wonder why you were digging in a junk pile for signs......[:-dev3]

[hausdok]

Aw come on Don,

It's the Big Dirty. I should think that one would be able to find all sorts of fascinating junk in Chicago - old concrete galoshes dredged up off the bottom of the river, the occasional piece of speakeasy paraphernalia, etc.. Might even turn up an old gun or two![]

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Mike

[kurt]

I was inspecting an old 2 flat/commercial building once where there was an old license on the wall from about 1924. The license was a dual license for both a bar & a polling office, i.e., you could have a beer while you waited to vote.

Only in Chicago.....

[Bradd Judd]

Kurt,

Pretty Cool!!! I just find the old style railroad glass insulators..... maybe I need to get into the city more often for inspections.........

Thanks, Brad

[hausdok]

Kurt,

You just reminded me of how, last week, I dated when a basement was hollowed out under a bungalow that was originally built on posts on piers - they'd nailed an old license plate, face out, to the inside of the forms and then placed the concrete, leaving a perfect imprint of the plate in the wall. That's how I knew it couldn't have been done prior to 1928 (House was built in 1920). Kind of kewl. All they'd have to do was paint the thing and it'd look like a perfectly preserved plate.

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Mike