Vintage Advertising Signs add to the quaint charm of any restaurant, and are not only valued keepsakes and collectors' items, but also contain a histo...
Vintage Advertising Signs add to the quaint charm of any restaurant,
and are not only valued keepsakes and collectors' items, but also contain a history. With their colors, styles, and words they tell of moments in time, frozen, with an artist's advertising brush. No matter what company, history, or product depicted, they captured a moment, now long past.
Historical events can be revisited through such signage as the 1940's World War II United States bond sales. Other events such as the cold war's political signs, today considered a kind of propaganda. They are also highly sought after by collectors.
Movements within our society that have changed laws, and influenced how we think today can also be traced to signage. Such issues as labor and women's rights, dating to as early as the 1940's can be observed. Few of these still exist today, as during World War II tin signs were melted down the tin was reused. Due to this fact they are scarce today, and and highly valued.
Other industries, that over time died out, can also be traced to signage. Cowboys on the range, once a bustling business, drawing men throughout the land to come and settle landscapes and steer cattle is no longer a valued profession as in times past. We can, however, still hear the words of cowboys on the frontier ringing from the past in advice still hanging on restaurant walls.
Advertising of any era always produces what is familiar to the culture. Lyrics from past music were sometimes used to create a particular product mood, or connect a business with a popular idea in music. Musical words became so much a part of the culture that during historical times in music it was impossible to separate the larger ideas being presented in business, services and sales from lyrics contained in the blues, folk songs and rock and roll.
Highly sought after signage relates to the arts and famed actresses and actors, as well as musicians. Collectors still are willing to pay high prices for advertising relating to the golden age of Hollywood. There is also advanced interest in past music groups, especially those whose music lives on in our culture today.
Then there are the legendary stars, for whom, it seems time stopped. Their iconic faces are still met with fascination and adoration. Such stars still sell in the hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars, if they are originals.
Other items related to business and its history are also popular. Top sellers are soda pop companies, domestic automakers, car dealers, cars, candy, farm equipment, fire engines, and city letters related to past laws or regulations. Also car emblems, fire and police, road directions, historical signs, outlived laws, and laws related to past practices that today are outlawed. Popular also are valet signs, restroom and cigar, enter and exit, and car parts.
The history of any country or people are contained in its history of its cities, laws and products.
Vintage Advertising Signs allow for tracing such histories in its colors from the past. With them society can understand how much society and culture has changed over time, and understand the beginnings of a company, law or things about the culture itself.
