A brief look back in time
Posted by Kaye ‘63 on June 24, 2018, 10:44 pm
Anyone remember these? Several weeks ago, Mark Jones was driving by the location of old Forest Jewelry (Max Mitchell) and Gray’s Shoe Shop. A construction crew was there removing material (probably sheet metal of some kind) from the surface of the brick. The original brick was revealed showing what looks to me to be hand painted, free style lettering. This must have been covered up for years. Beth (Gray) saw these photos last weekend when ‘63 got together and she thinks she was very young when this lettering was done....possibly 65 years ago! She was thrilled to have a copy. The most interesting thing about this is that Mark stopped and captured the image just in time. He drove back by a few hours later and it was no longer visible. I forget if he said it had been painted over or covered by another material, but these old signs were exposed just a few hours. This next is just a close up of each sign.
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