A hand-lettered menu board advertising quail in garlic sauce hangs beneath corrugated roofing, Mexico, circa 1975.
1975 · Mexico
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The camera drifts across the sign, whose gold script reads 'Codornices con Mojo de Ajo', against the restaurant's tin roof.
1975 · Mexico
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The view tilts down from the sign past the bright eaves toward the dark, open-sided dining room.
1975 · Mexico
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Inside the open-sided dining room, wooden chairs and checked tablecloths sit behind orange-painted posts.
1975 · Mexico
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The painted Story Land billboard, New Hampshire, circa 1977, framed against pines and an overcast sky.
1977 · Story Land, New Hampshire, United States
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Hand-lettered park name on the Story Land billboard, filmed on Super 8, circa 1977.
1977 · Story Land, New Hampshire, United States
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The camera tilts down to show the daily opening hours posted at the base of the billboard.
1977 · Story Land, New Hampshire, United States
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The billboard's lettering and hours panel together, as a visitor filmed them on arrival, circa 1977.
1977 · Story Land, New Hampshire, United States
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'WELCOME ON R&R' greeting painted on a dark board, likely South Korea, circa 1953.
1953 · South Korea
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The script line 'You've earned it.' runs beneath the block capitals, partly cut off by the frame.
1953 · South Korea
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Strong blue-violet colour cast and film grain across the hand-lettered R&R greeting.
1953 · South Korea
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The handheld camera drifts slightly, bringing the board's pale right-hand edge into view.
1953 · South Korea
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The Flamingo exhibit board at Catskill Game Farm, New York, circa 1959, listing the bird's range as Southern U.S.A., Cuba and So. America.
1959 · Catskill Game Farm, New York, United States
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Pale script stands out against the green paint and the shaded enclosure behind the board.
1959 · Catskill Game Farm, New York, United States
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The smaller lettering names the flamingo's range: Southern U.S.A., Cuba and South America.
1959 · Catskill Game Farm, New York, United States
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A slight handheld drift moves the framing as the short shot of the Flamingo board ends.
1959 · Catskill Game Farm, New York, United States
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A painted board directs motorists to Old Mission Santa Inés, 'on your right 4 blocks ahead'. Solvang, California, circa 1958.
1958 · Solvang, California, United States
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The framing drifts right, showing more of the red-roofed house behind the mission sign.
1958 · Solvang, California, United States
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The painted view on the sign shows the mission's long arcade, red tile roof and bell wall against blue hills.
1958 · Solvang, California, United States
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The sign stands above a wire fence at the roadside, four blocks from the mission it advertises.
1958 · Solvang, California, United States
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The sign for the future site of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Inglewood, 1948, with a blotch on the film across the script line.
1948 · Inglewood, California, United States
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The clearest view of the sign: gold script, block capitals naming the church, the pastor's name and a PL exchange phone number.
1948 · Inglewood, California, United States
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The handheld camera drifts left across the signboard, keeping the gold cross and the church name in view.
1948 · Inglewood, California, United States
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The last frames of the shot hold on the sign naming the church and its pastor, Rev. J. Benner Weaver.
1948 · Inglewood, California, United States
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