Ghost Town
Photography by LaShelle Bynum
Reader Comments
These images are amazing! I am so glad you saw the beauty and value in them. As I drive in the city and look up at one of these old advertisements, I think of how lucky I am to get a glimpse of the past and thank someone for not tearing it down like everything else is these days. Thank you for your lovely eye and btw-these pictures certainly look to be from a professionals lens, not an amateur. You are very talented indeed.
If you like looking at flowers, gardens and yard art of the area that have been neglected and/or taken for granted, please visit this blog: http://neglectedbeauty.blogspot.com/
A eye for beauty in any form is a gift. Thank you, again.
I found this on line and want to thank you for the photos of the paintd signs.
I do family genealogy and you did a great servce by keeping the record of the buildings signs in your City.
Very creative and important.
Thank you again LaShelle.
To everyone who commented on this article some friends, some family and some I don’t even know. I just want to say THANK YOU !!!!!!! your comments mean a lot. I will print this page for a keepsake. THANX AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and THANK YOU, Style Magazine
Lashelle
Hey Cuz, Look at u , u did it I am so proud of u girl! I talk to your mom and she told me where to go. Nice job! Way to go! I’m coming out there in the near future so have your photo’s ready so I can see more. I’ll see u soon! Love you cuz
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LaShelle -
Congrats on the great article and your recognition!
I too have been attempting to capture ghost signs (and others) here in Philadelphia ever since I made a senior thesis project out of some of them at university. I’ve been slowly mapping them and attempting to cross reference them with historical photos on my blog, called “The Philadelphia Ghost Signage Project”:
http://www.lawrenceotoole.com/signs
I’ve posted a link to this article there, as well as on the accompanying Twitter account:
http://twitter.com/philaghostsigns
Some selections from my work will be shown this February at the PRIMER Microstudio in Hatboro, just outside of Philadelphia:
Keep up the good work!
The article is GREAT !!, But,anybody who knows Ms. Bynum, wouldn’t call her an “Amateur.” She has not only has she done a exhibit at the Enoch Pratt, but two at the Eubie Blake center as well. She possess a beautiful body of work not only in her “Ghost Signs.”
Lashelle, you did a fantastic job! Not only did I enjoyed reading the article, I really appreciate your pictures of the ghostsigns. Thanks for the memories.
Nice work LaShelle, if you’re interested in these over in the UK then check out http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk
Keep snapping!
Sam
What a really wonderful article! I wasn’t sure if anyone else cared about all the ghost signs in this town like I do. I set up a blog, http://bmore.colinmford.com/ to help keep track of the wonderful signs in this city. In our flickr group, http://www.flickr.com/groups/bmoretype/ , we even keep up a map of where we find them.
