St Louis brewery ghost signs

[Hotrodder]

I travel around the city for work and anytime I see a ghost sign beer related I take a pic and wanted to share them.

[LGS]

Ghost signs are too cool. Thanks for posting!

[Sea Monkey]

Yes, super cool! Enjoyed the post. I would love to see more of them if anybody has some.....

[iggyks]

So that's what you call them! I photograph them but haven't lucked into a beer one yet.... wonder if there are any Muehlebach ghost signs in KC? Did find this cool saloon sign (and Mail Pouch Tobacco) in Peru. Indiana.

[dmorean]

This photo is taken from a Highland Spring Brewery Rueter and Alley lithograph in my collection. Somewhere I have a photo of the building which still stands in the Mission Hill area of Boston. It shows the ghosted letters "Highland Springs Ale" on the other side of the building. I'll post it if I find it. Anybody have this photo?

[Wheaton]

There was one I loved when I lived near Chesterton, Indiana and I actually managed to find this (small) picture online. It's not very clear, but way on the left edge of the photo, on the side of the second story bricks, is a big "Berghoff" written top to bottom in white. If I recall correctly, there may have been a later ad with the cursive "Berghoff" logo superimposed over it that had almost worn off, exposing the older one shown here. If I can find a better picture I'll post it.

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[Wheaton]

This one's bigger and at least readable, but there's more painted on that wall that the photo clips off. As some might say, "Click to supersize."

[Hotrodder]

the old Greisedeick bros. brewery bldg is still standing so will take a pic of it next time.

[Longhorn Mike]

Miller sign in the Fort Worth Stockyards.

- Mike

[Scott Levitt]

Here's one I took this past weekend in Northampton, PA

[danielj]

Those are cool!
last year in Mebane where I live they re-painted a Coke ghost sign.
Sorry about small photos, I got them off the web.

[Hotrodder]

as promised here is the old Greisedeick bros. brewery right accross the highway from that Inbev thing.

[bantam10]

There was an old picture of a building here in a newspaper like 10 years ago that had a Schlitz advertisement on the side of it from the 1890's

[GaRedClay]

Very cool thread! Here's one I found while in Asheville, NC a month ago:

[ozarkridgerunner]

There is a lot great of post-apocalyptic photo exploration of defunct/dead breweries such as http://sublunarphotography.blogspot.com ... nt-10.html

[Canadacan]

Great pictures! ...It would be cool if they restored some of those old signs like they did with many of the old Coca-Cola ones

[aussieguinnessman]

There was one I loved when I lived near Chesterton, Indiana and I actually managed to find this (small) picture online. It's not very clear, but way on the left edge of the photo, on the side of the second story bricks, is a big "Berghoff" written top to bottom in white. If I recall correctly, there may have been a later ad with the cursive "Berghoff" logo superimposed over it that had almost worn off, exposing the older one shown here. If I can find a better picture I'll post it.

Dave,

Here is a better photo of the sign you mention.

Aussie

[Wheaton]

Oh, that is WAY cool. Thanks! Like a trip down memory lane.

Bugs me, though, that I had a cursive Berghoff sign in my head from that same area. Guess I smashed them together in my memory...I'll have to see if I can remember where that was and find another picture.