This thread will need it's own server soon.
Anyway, Tomkat has provided many pre-1970s signs, but some have asked for later signs - well, this site has many ads from the 1980s (actually it has many vintage ads, but I'm limiting it to the 1980s). Not all ads (many from magazines) will work as outdoor displays, but a lot - especially the movies ads, the liquour, the fashion ones, the cigarettes, jewely etc - will work great for commuter station ads (maybe needing a bit of cropping) or those ads in 10' by 10' grey frames mounted on the side of buildings (very common in New York, and I suppose other places too).
On page 11 is a whole lot of bumper stickers for Political campaigns from the 1960s thru the 1980s.
And if none of the ads work for you - hey, at least you get to see lots of pictures of attractive women with big, big hair, hyper glossy lips, and short high heel boots...
Here's a different side (Vintage Ad Browser), with 1980s drink ads - actually other decades too, although the 1990s & 2000s seems stuck on the 'Got Milk' campaign - meh. But the 1970s - those ads beg to be put on commuter station billboards! (I spoke too soon - the 1990s alcohol ads are good). And, of course the 1980s alcohol ads has a Bud ad with attractive women with big, big hair, hyper glossy lips, and tight swimsuits. Actually, to be fair that Vintage Ad Browser site has lots of ads, for many different categories, over each decade of the 20th and 21st century - plenty of 1970s-1990s stuff, and some 2000s too. It'll keep you busy...
Eighties, I'm living in the Eighties....
THANKS! For the links to the more modern signs & ads.
tomkat-13
Hard to resist using the cigar ad!
Jay
Tomkat -- Whoa! You just eclipsed 250 JPG-files!
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
tgindy Tomkat -- Whoa! You just eclipsed 250 JPG-files!
YES! & More to come......Show us the photos of the signs as you put them on your layout.
Do we have any pictures that are not photobucket?
I make the "sign" pages in MS Publisher, saved as a MS Office Publisher File & then I copy & paste to save as an jpg file to upload to photobucket so to be able to post in the forum. Going from the publisher file to a jpg file I loose file size ( the last post started at 2.90 mb in publisher, to 229kb as a jpg file, then reduced by the forum to 161810 bites 630x800) I know that the signs loose alot of sharpness & detail so I try to post them on the large size. If anyone knows how to get arround this please respond. When I make the signs for my own use I print from the publisher file for better detail.
I hope this helps, tomkat.
Tomkat:
Under the import button in Photobucket there is, in very small print, a link that says "More Options".
If you click on it, it will give you a pop up where you can select larger sizes.
Dave.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Vet Tomkat: Under the import button in Photobucket there is, in very small print, a link that says "More Options". If you click on it, it will give you a pop up where you can select larger sizes. Dave.
Thank you Dave........I'll try that next time....But I think the forum will still lower the file size. All of the signs have come off the internet from searches I have made. I will keep posting what I find......tkat
Here is one uploaded at the 1 meg setting. The forum will shrink it to show it here, but if you click the grey bar at the top of the picture it will give it to you full size in a new window.
Don't take this the wrong way, because I love all these signs, I've downloaded more than I could use in decades, and you are proof positive that there are a million aspects to this hobby that are fascinating, not to mention all of us I am sure truly appreciate you sharing this work with us...........but..............you are one SICK dude!!! You know that, right? HA!
How do you find all these signs?????
The St. Francis Consolidated Railroad of the Colorado Rockies
Denver, Colorado
St Francis Consolidated RR ".you are one SICK dude!!!"
".you are one SICK dude!!!"
Yes very "SICK!"......I have a very HIGH-STRESS job & use the sign finding as a "Stressk Reliever" (That's the story I tell my wife also so I can have more time to search out the signs)......The real story is I like to add more realism to my layout by puting up the signs. Since I find many more signs than I can use I put them out for others. I use different searches & oddball websites to locate items. So signs that could be billboards are found as ink blotters, postcards, decals, ads, & old signs. So I'll have this sickness for a while longer.....tkat