Have you ever thought about how you might find your way to a hardware store if you couldn’t consult Google for the nearest Home Depot?
Well, in the late 1800s and early 1900s you could have relied on painted, billboard-sized ads on the sides of downtown buildings. These now-fading murals advertised everything from blacksmiths and furnaces, to law and insurance offices.
We traveled around downtown Albany, Schenectady and Troy to find some of these remaining “ghost signs,” some of which have since…
