Angelo Brocato. Ursulines St French Quarter. Ice cream shop here 1921 - 1981.
Cigars & Tobacco. Camp Street, Central Business District. Probably for Lannis Bros Cigars, here c. 1889 - 1905.
J. Disimone’s Restaurant. Carondelet Street, Uptown. The “597” was the address before 1895 renumbering.
4)“For Restful Sleep”. Broad, Mid-City. Sandman logo of Crescent Bed factory here 1910-1961. @noladon #NOLA#NewOrleans#GhostSigns#Tiles#TilesTuesday
For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap#fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?
Does anyone know the story behind these tiles about Alice? I run into different ones from time to time on walls around the Southside of Glasgow, mostly in the vicinity of Queen's Park.
There are few things which beats a wally close for making a great first impression. This one is in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. For those who don't know, a wally close is the communal entrance to a tenement which is lined with tiles, and often beautifully crafted ones.
I love these tile panels which you occasionally find in tenement closes. They're not as common as the individual decorative tiles or borders, but there are still quite a few around. This one comes from a block of tenements in the Cathcart area of Glasgow.
There are some things I can't seem to resist photographing each time I pass. These rather amazing tiles on Alexandra Parade in Glasgow are one of them.
The newest instance of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on the snout of the Beithir by Nichol Wheatley which was recently unveiled at the Stockingfield Bridge on the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Tiles from the communal stairwell of a tenement in the Hillhead area of Glasgow. Whenever I've come across this tile pattern before, it's always been arranged in pairs like these ones.
I love this piece of decorative tiling at the entrance to one of the lodge houses at the Great Western Road entrance to the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The building was designed by A.B. McDonald and constructed in 1894.
Decorative tiles at the entrance to Victoria Chambers on West Nile Street in central Glasgow. The flowers appear to be the red Rose of Lancaster from the 15th Century English Wars of the Roses, which is an unusual motif for a Glasgow Building.