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That lettering job was probably done for $49.00 and that would have been good money at the time.
Look at the brick street, I remember the street in front of our house was like that in Illinois.
Jack
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I wonder if the sign painter was responsible for the pin striping on the van panels, or did it come with the truckbody mfgr?
Can't see any stripes on the hood or fenders, but I noticed a small signature looking thing on the lower panel behind the seat. I wish it were in color.
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-------------------- Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail: kjmlhenry@rogers.com
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I saw that one last week Ken. My thought it needed a drop shadow on the script lettering.
I agree with Stevo that any good hand lettered, and for that matter vinyl truck job, beats most wraps. Of course digital images of products are more conducive to wraps sometimes.
-------------------- Wright Signs Wyandotte, Michigan Posts: 2785 | From: Wyandotte, MI USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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OOOOO to be a sign painter back then. Can you imagine the respect a sign painter would have gotten in those days? I can and it makes me smile.
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Probably be some here that would disagree with me depending on what part of the country they lived in but in those times and up until the fifties there were shops which were strictly truck lettering and didn't do anything else in Manhattan or any of the four other boroughs. My dad had his own shop when I was a kid as a second business where he done just that and I could remember visiting other persons shops with him. I'd have to go through many photographs which I have in order to find my dad's 46 chevy panel truck done in gold leaf with the Victrola dude blowing through a saxophone engulfed by a record, it read "Old Reliable Music Service" which was his other business.
Oh well, enough of my reminiscing, it makes me weird
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Another photo from the same site shows some nice period showcards used to promote a sale at their druggist. Note the centre table where they have Star Vibrators on sale.I didn't realize these things were available back when.
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I agree 100%, I have never seen a wrap that does as good a job, they are too much stuff to the point of being hard to read. Bill
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These are great Photos, Love the look and feel but.....
To come out and say that you have not seen any wraps that are not good or effective in my opinion is a little over the top. Just because you don't do that kind of work, does not mean that it's not effective. The same way I guess that some of Paint work is not effective, some of it is just too sloppy, colors are off whatever.
Back when I was painting everything, there were so called sign Painters who could not spell, do a lay out, draw anything for that matter, but they still got work.
I absolutely Respect everyone on here, but some of the comments sometimes are too Broad, they seem to put down the Digital People, who sometimes have more talent than "Some" Sign Painters.
I know this has gone off topic and I apologize for that. I still love those photos, and seeing and doing something by hand, as long as it's good.
And I agree that "Some" Wraps, which I don't like doing by the way, a Partial Wrap is sometimes is all that is needed, but some wraps are just to busy.
There I said it... now flame away!
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Actually Neil you are right, a little over the top. I believe those doing wraps need a higher level of designer proficiency to get them to be effective and not the cluttered messes I see on the road.
More to the point, beginners or those without a solid grounding in what it takes to make an effective ad, will muck up a wrap more than one would with a basic vehicle lettering job.
-------------------- Wright Signs Wyandotte, Michigan Posts: 2785 | From: Wyandotte, MI USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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I absolutely Love those old Photos! Man you can almost feel and Taste what it must have been like. When I first started in the Business back in 1978, I was first hired as an Apprentice Screen Printer, then a designer, doing sketches for Big Light Up signs, as well as the hand painted signs. I can't tell you how many thousands of sheets of Letreset I went through. Remember Letreset? Then I got an apprenticeship signpainting... as soon as you walked into the Shop the aroma of Turps, paint and all the rest would fill the air...those wre the days.
What I love about those photos is the simplicity in all of it, but yet, it has class and elligance.
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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Boy, Neil, do I remember the Letraset. Back when we started out, we'd make a lot of layouts for our signs on paper with Letraset letters, then blow them up on an overhead projector. Seemed like it took hours sometimes....and you never had just the right letter or the right size.
I love those old style trucks. I'd like to try to sell someone a job like that today. If you are in a part of the country that has Boar's Head deli meats, their trucks are still pretty much like that, although they use mostly vinyl. They still use the old layout, with engine turned leaf. I got to see one of the earlier trucks over in Arkansas, done in real leaf and paint. It was a job to be proud of.
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Well Neil, I've got you by 18 years, and yes I too love the old smells, and remember Letreset, still have some. I used it a lot for making photo positives for screen printing. Ah yes, those were the days, I miss them.
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