Sunday, December 14, 2014

D.L. Mathews & Co.


 Spotted during an 8-mile run just off of Carolean Industrial Drive, State College PA

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Bullock Swing & Chair Manufacturing Co.

I noticed this ampersand on a small brass tag tacked to a wooden swing at my in-laws.
The swing, is at least from the early 1960s, once belonged to my mother. I spent many a mild summer afternoon escaping reality by reading on the swing on our front porch on North Walnut Street, Lewistown. Photo by Terri Lukens-Gable.

A quick search online turned this up:
Keystone Gazette December 18, 1903, page 8
“The Bullock Swing & Chair Manufacturing Co., of Milesburg, of which Ralph Spigelmyer of Bellefonte, is the business manager, will have a large display at the World's Fair at St. Louis next summer. The expenses will run $2,000 to $2,500.  The booth alone cost $1,000. It comes high but we must have it.”

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Dumpster Ampersand

Stenciled ampersand discovered recently in NYC

Monday, May 12, 2014

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Amperbear

Spotted by my son in Japan

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Everest & Jennings

Though it brings back some not so good memories, I still wanted to share this quite creative combination of the E and J of the company name Everest & Jennings.