You know you’re in Sanford when you spot “The Barn” sign while heading down U.S. Highway 17-92. With its dancing cowboy and cowgirl at the top right corner, the bright, red-and-white neon sign has ...
One of the lost Americana landmarks of San Luis Obispo is the Mail Pouch Barn. The story includes a long-time farming family, a recently controversial construction company owner and an advertising ...
WASHINGTON CO., Ga. (WTOC) - If you’ve taken GA Highway 15 on the route from Savannah to Athens for a Georgia Bulldog football game over the past 20 years, you’ve seen it. That old roadside barn in ...
A freshly painted sign along Route 322 in Elizabeth Township has been turning heads. It's on the side of a barn. It reads: "Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco." There was a time, not so long ago, when such signs ...
You don’t realize your eyes are fooling you until you stand close to the Barn Theater at UCSC’s main entrance. That’s when you realize what looks like a digitally rendered photographic billboard of ...
TOWANDA, Ill. — Advertising signs painted on rural barns were once a common sight across the country in 1920s and 1930s, and they are making a comeback on Jo Morrison’s farm east of Towanda. Laboring ...
MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) — Eric Claypoole was up on the ladder again the other day, painting yet another barn with those unmistakable charms of Pennsylvania Dutch country: Hex signs. The Lenhartsville ...
I wanted to see distelfinks. But they were hard to find. In Pennsylvania Dutch country, the distelfink — an imaginary goldfinch that eats thistle seeds and builds thistledown nests — is a good-luck ...
The Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn on Highway 1 at the base of Bishop Peak carried a chewing tobacco advertisement on the roof for many years. It was a popular subject for artists but when the roof ...