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Eddy Bread Restoration Project

The Eddy Bread restoration project in Helena is receiving some of its first media attention. Sanjay Talwani of the Helena Independent Record has written a nice article about the sign and the goal of family and friends to refresh the image. Not unusual for this kind of effort, the comments following the article reflect the [...]

Eddy’s Bread Restoration

The Eddy’s Bread Restoration project in Helena is in full swing. A very nice description of the initial phase of the project by Sanjay Talwani can be viewed here in the Helena Independent Record.

More on Eddy’s Bread

Who doesn’t love picnics in the park – minus mosquitos of course. Saturday I had the honor of eating with the O’Connell family, descendants of JE O’Connell of Eddy’s Bread, and Nancy Bennett, a contemporary Wall Dog from The Wall Dogs . The O’Connell family has been approved to repaint the Eddy Bread ghost sign located [...]

Book contract!

The contract is signed and in the mail! The History Press has commissioned me to write a book representing the fading ads of Butte, Montana. The rich history of Butte, the boom to bust and revitalization will make this book a good read and nice addition to the fading ad books The History Press is [...]

Orange Crush

There I was looking at the much celebrated restored Owl Cigar sign in Great Falls when this Orange Crush sign caught my eye. So far this is the only Orange Crush sign I have seen in Montana. J.M. Thompson of Chicago is recognized as the original inventor of Orange Crush in 1906. However, in 1916 [...]

Caporal Cigarettes “Ask Dad – He Knows”

In October, a man chained himself to the Greek Cafe in protest to its destruction. Some would say, “Only in Butte.” But this man’s action was more of a testament to the spirit and pride Butte natives have to their town, regardless of how economically challenged they have been for the last 70 years. Amazingly, [...]

Missoula’s “Best” Ghost Sign

Of the more fascinating ghost signs I encounter are the ones that represent multiple layers of advertising like this one in an alley in Missoula, Montana.  No other ghost sign in that town of the dozen or so I have documented has the complexity or variance that this one does, nor are there any with [...]

Livingston, Yellowstone and Calamity James

Upon recommendation from my ghost sign friends I drove through Livingston on my most recent trip to Yellowstone National Park. Ghost signs in Livingston? Okay, I will chase down any lead for the next best sign in the “Last Best Place” in the lower 48.  I took the photo above, turned around at the corner [...]

Rex Is King

“You can bake – successfully – every one of those delicious things in your cook book if you use Rex Flour.” It is “the best of all foods for growing children.”  WOW. And to think I could have been a gourmet chef if I had just used Rex Flour. Rex Flour was produced under Royal Milling [...]

You’ll Like Highlander Beer

Highlander Beer  has had a long, if somewhat interrupted past. While the beer industry gained its first foothold in Montana in 1874, the  Highlander label originated in 1910  under the auspices of Garden City Brewery  located  in Missoula. George Gerber, the owner, wanted his beer to be advertised as “Highlander” but the name was already [...]

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