https://sfghostsigns.com/maps daily 0.75 2019-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515651203426-A2VQCO5GV2ERZOH806VJ/6303438301_a127f025c3_b+%282%29.jpg Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515650287933-IVI1D53EK7MDKN38DBT0/Screen+Shot+2018-01-10+at+9.57.40+PM.png Maps - San Francisco Ghost Sign Map 2011 - Ongoing Multimedia Piece Interactive map about San Francisco's ghost signs. As as summer of 2017 there were 350+ points to the Google map, sorted by type, including business name, brand name, undecipherable, restored or lost. Check Out The Map On Google https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515645623355-HRDRAC5HXU7OV589QDOV/Screen+Shot+2018-01-10+at+8.40.02+PM.png Maps - Ads of San Francisco San Francisco Ghost Sign Map 2012 - Ongoing Multimedia Piece Interactive map of San Francisco's ghost signs, focusing on local and regional brands only. 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Check Out The Map On Google https://sfghostsigns.com/press daily 0.75 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515651300340-03KZCNGBR8J3TEIUIOWT/6255812927_44d3e50502_o.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515648486079-4JZ70T6TQPZI7YRO0S2W/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-08-14%2Bat%2B9.37.29%2BPM.png Press - SFist - Ghost Signs of San Francisco Mapped, 2015 Article can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515648507313-WHTUOKOM9FH6F8ONHYYS/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-08-14%2Bat%2B9.38.15%2BPM.png Press - HuffPost San Francisco - San Francisco Ghost Signs: A Tour of SF’s Historical Advertisements, 2012 Article can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515648542667-G8INWTWFSLMUJA7N5WE0/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-03-09%2Bat%2B5.41.47%2BPM-1.png Press - SFGATE - The best walking tours in San Francisco for all types of people, 2017 Article can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515657878084-ZZ7II88UPZYG0R0HE6G9/Screen+Shot+2018-01-11+at+12.03.56+AM.png Press - SFGate - Ghost signs of San Francisco: Forgotten treasures hiding in plain sight, 2016 Article can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1550444573526-Z1XX3R6FBB6QD7DHIJE4/51086974_10156764297985867_2503266639877767168_o.jpg Press - SFGate, January 2019 Video on the San Francisco Ghost Sign Mapping Project featured on the homepage of the SFGate site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1597709247819-ZVJ2DGAE9DINKS8TWO0O/Screen+Shot+2020-08-17+at+5.06.37+PM.png Press - San Francisco Chronicle - On the bright side: Car wash dates, virtual walking tours in SF and the death of ‘limousines’, 2020 Article can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1618033178412-BAB9ZEJJ3C1HL7VLSBX8/Screen+Shot+2021-04-09+at+10.39.18+PM.png Press - SFGATE - East Bay's historic ghost signs: How some recent discoveries led to a new urban exploration project, 2021 Article can be found here. https://sfghostsigns.com/ghost-signs daily 0.75 2019-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515649456400-W68SS1MBFQ0O64UM6489/6344413313_2483a8f2a9_o.jpg Ghost Signs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654873202-Y5J2ZIJRII6M71Q1BFGP/5981880157_3f2a2a4184_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 516 O'Farrell A reinforced masonry hotel built in 1912 by architect L.B. Hutton, this 140 room SRO currently goes by the Crosby, changed from th Coast Hotel, it's most previous incarnation. Per the wonderful Up From The Deep blog "If you look up from Jones Street at the back of what is now the Coast Hotel, you’ll find this lovely fading relic of a time gone by. Shawmut is the original Native American name for the neck of land on which the city of Boston, Massachusetts was founded. Anglicized, the word has also come to mean spring. The Shawmut was so named because many of its rooms have private baths, something of a luxury at the time the hotel was built." Photo of a car crash in front of the hotel, circa 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652736761-PFOSNFDHG18G6L80PZ25/5976169262_8e8d6049d4_z.jpg Ghost Signs - YMCA Hotel Golden Gate at Leavenworth Oasis Apartments (formerly Whitehall Apartments, formerly the YMCA Hotel). This 386 room hotel was built in 1928 by architect Frederick H. Meyer for the YMCA. It was one of three YMCA buildings he designed in San Francisco and his greatest work pre-1945. It has since been converted to apartments. This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the last San Francisco buildings built in the Chicago style of two-part or three-part vertical blocks. It is one of only a handful of hotels the YMCA built, and the only one in California. To increase occupancy, the hotel began accepting women in 1935 which dates the sign to 1935 or later. The National Register of Historic Places application - complete with architectural drawings - can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652800261-ASNA6EAL1BD6P9U8HNEL/5976185416_c5054b55b5_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 180 Golden Gate (as seen from Leavenworth) Building was built in 1908. City Century Garage, now the 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center, on the corner of Leavenworth and Golden Gate. Due to fencing in the alley you can read the word GASOLINE but not the entirety of the sign. Public garages often offered automobile services beyond before World War II. This garage likely sold gasoline and did minor repairs for the cars parked there. Pre-earthquake, Golden Gate Avenue was San Francisco's auto row. After the earthquake, around 1910, this industry would move to Van Ness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652872574-5E8GWFU6J3YXPDC0OJHL/5976220132_bd2193b683_z.jpg Ghost Signs - Numerous layered signs at 151 Leavenworth Now the Page Hotel and the TL Tobacco and Market, this wall sports signs for the Page Apartments, The Page Saloon, and an ad for Wieland's Extra Pale Lager Beer. John Wieland's Brewing Co, was a small SF brewery that operated from the 1850's through the 1920's on 2nd Street (before operating in San Jose from the 1933-1956 ). Owned by famous San Francisco figure John Weiland, it was originally called the Philadelphia Brewery. Given the building's age and Prohibition, this ad is either from 1907-1920 or 1933-1956. This Flickr user has a 1912 ad for Weiland's Beer. Curbed has a larger article on the brewery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653050109-WVUZCMX1I8CWI854UTFL/5978563908_4be3f53eda_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 245 Leavenworth #1 The Morning Side Apartments are a forty-eight unit SRO built in 1910 by Architect H. Geilfuss. From this side you can see a sign advertising it's former incarnation, The Grand Rapids Apartments. Old SFist article about how awful the building is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653142513-MIDMBNQVXV1210H0N0FG/5978005741_033e606a1d_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 245 Leavenworth #2 The Morning Side Apartments are a forty-eight unit SRO built in 1910 by Architect H. Geilfuss. From this side you can see the overlapping remnants of two old signs - the complete, albeit faded, Apartments Leavenworth 245 sign and a partial remnant of the Lady Florence Apartments sign. Old SFist article about how awful the building is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653215898-EMPXRIIFCD9NI40QBA49/5978107677_5b2b340b46_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 335 Leavenworth This 1907 SRO by architects Welsh and Carey is currently the Hotel Western. Previous incarnations include the Hotel Rocklin and the Hotel Black. The faded Hotel Rocklin sign on the side can be dated to 1914-1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652330201-GJVCU5UM2CRADEAXSVJT/5976169086_a57b96606e_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 351 Turk Oasis Apartments (formerly Whitehall Apartments, formerly the YMCA Hotel). This 386 room hotel was built in 1928 by architect Frederick H. Meyer for the YMCA. It was one of three YMCA buildings he designed in San Francisco and his greatest work pre-1945. It has since been converted to apartments. This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the last San Francisco buildings built in the Chicago style of two-part or three-part vertical blocks. It is one of only a handful of hotels the YMCA built, and the only one in California. To increase occupancy, the hotel began accepting women in 1935 which dates the sign to 1935 or later. The National Register of Historic Places application - complete with architectural drawings - can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653305407-65UF4KVJIJ2OOB9NDZ61/5978837462_b58f337774_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 766 Sutter A nearly illegible sign saying Lucerne Apartments is on the side of The Lucerne; a Lower Nob Hill apartment building built in 1910. The building appears in the 2004 film The Assassination of Richard Nixon A 1964 image of the building can be seen here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653376884-6R4YP4LJZZ6HYGAY981K/5978868826_7312021182_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 701 Sutter Sign for the Sussex Hotel, a six story concrete and masonry Colonial Revival apartment building from 1910 currently serving as a Subway with boutique office space in the upper floors. The building is included in the historic Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653493084-66VGR4NYAQG2YECXA26M/6165220700_53b52fb095_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 975 Bush The Hotel Mayflower is a 102 room hotel built in 1929. It was noticeable for having bathrooms, murphy beds, and "pullman buffets" , aka kitchenettes, in each room. From the Hotel's website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653616528-BJFITCNXV3Y0MWD6QINI/5978423593_f67d5e890e_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 776 Bush Illegible apartment sign on the side of the Burke Lewis apartment building; a classic 61 unit Lower Nob Hill apartment building from 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653977512-E0UK2UISOTD7JSRMNAG6/5979010532_32c013b94e_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 734 Bush Faded sign for Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Another classic 1910 Lower Nob Hill apartment building. Check out this great historical postcard of the Rockingham. The building is included in the historic Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654071426-SNRO2R5VJKVWT6M6HJXS/5979039590_01a105a3a7_z.jpg Ghost Signs - California at Grant Wedged into a small, inaccesable alley next to the Ritz Carlton is a sign for the Sing Fat Co. Bazaar. Built in 1908, the building was designed with a distinctive Americanized Cantonese flair. Both the Sing Fat Co Bazaar and it's "sister building" across California Street, the Sing Chong Company, were designed by architect Thomas Patterson Ross. Additional branches were to be found in LA and NYC. Check out this beautiful historical postcard of the building. And a photo of the actual sign in question from 1951.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654503942-60GBDD1ZH6Z76ID7DUPP/5979106094_9e0829b10f_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 616 Grant On the side of the present-day Canton Bazaar, a ghost sign is obscured by the back end of Old Saint Mary's Cathedral. Built in 1854 and destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, the church was rebuilt in 1909 and extended/remodeled in 1929. That would date this sign somewhere between 1909 and 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654565381-BVLRIKZSTZ1Z192K1MTE/5979220197_63be070817_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1140 Powell Sign for a defunct parking garage on the backside of the Powell Automotive Center in Chinatown. Shot from Stone Street, a small alley in between Powell Street and the Chinese Hospital on Jackson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654618271-TFV0RWUN6MH8CM4NI6EU/5979790890_3a3232d9fc_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 840 Jackson Only the faintest of impressions remain on this Chinatown boarding house built in 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654766858-4J9SLYG7ON4WACSHP2ES/5979802058_d856aae7f9_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1339 Stockton Painted over and faded sign on the side of a mixed use Chinatown building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654810123-HVE23OXVY47MYEGJQXQK/5979252663_01c80d72be_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 740 Broadway FAST Call Hom Mortgage 749-2800 (notice the Chinese characters running down the right hand of the ad). A now defunct local mortgage company run by a former mayoral candidate. Also; note the strange sign from Pier 33 on the roof. Is that an ad or a salvaged piece of scrap that's been repurposed for this building? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654930805-LM68RZ1DGL3ADA8TAYX7/5982076567_51f1b67fa8_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 140 Mason #1 Was the Olympic Hotel, now the San Francisco International Youth Hostel.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654985853-1E6SPAW4TTCT8I2A6F3S/5982636946_cbdfb4bcc8_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 140 Mason #2 Was the Olympic Hotel, now the San Francisco International Youth Hostel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655090347-8N47MH2AMOZGVW15ZTYU/5982833006_41038a2cef_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 34 Turk Pic of the Dalt Hotel sign before it was restored in 2013. The Dalt is 177 room SRO from 1908 located just off Market Street. Repainted sign can be seen here. An article about the renovation of the hotel (and it's sordid history of deaths) can be found here. Street in front of the Dalt circa 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655270374-XWH7WJ9L8E2QR3OUEBFW/5982272529_a9fb314f00_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 923 Market 1907 building with a half obscured ad on the side. The middle line is definitely Shoe Co. Any ideas on what the upper and lower lines read? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655347974-L8HXHEXHFKQSMHECNEHA/5982271525_e1e6349d22_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1017 Market #1 1017 Market Street was built in 1909 by Architect George Applegarth as the headquarters for the local chain department store Eastern Outfitting Company. Changed to Union Furniture Co in the late 1940's, remnants of both signs are visible on either side of the building. From the Up From the Deep Blog: "From a Market Street sidewalk perspective, the Eastern Outfitting Company Building’s enormous, unrelieved expanses of brick are mostly hidden by the buildings on either side. The illusion created by the false front is largely dependent on looking upward from street level. The giant Corinthian order columns and capitals are constructed of terra-cotta tiles; and the entablature, seemingly so massive, is in fact hollow—a galvanized-iron box. Architecture like this is for me transcendent; it turns the street into a stage set, which makes otherwise hidden parts of the building even more tantalizing. The deus ex machina, you might say, is the utilitarian brick that makes up the building behind the facade." Great historical photos here. And article in the San Francisco Call circa 1909. And here is a pic of their Los Angeles location. Additional locations were in Oakland. Portland, Seattle. Tacoma. Spokane, and Sacramento. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655534311-3F9ONWL33NVYFBJLP8RS/5982337909_1394e95195_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1017 Market #2 1017 Market Street was built in 1909 by Architect George Applegarth as the headquarters for the local chain department store Eastern Outfitting Company. Changed to Union Furniture Co in the late 1940's, remnants of both signs are visible on either side of the building. From the Up From the Deep Blog: "From a Market Street sidewalk perspective, the Eastern Outfitting Company Building’s enormous, unrelieved expanses of brick are mostly hidden by the buildings on either side. The illusion created by the false front is largely dependent on looking upward from street level. The giant Corinthian order columns and capitals are constructed of terra-cotta tiles; and the entablature, seemingly so massive, is in fact hollow—a galvanized-iron box. Architecture like this is for me transcendent; it turns the street into a stage set, which makes otherwise hidden parts of the building even more tantalizing. The deus ex machina, you might say, is the utilitarian brick that makes up the building behind the facade." Great historical photos here. And article in the San Francisco Call circa 1909. And here is a pic of their Los Angeles location. Additional locations were in Oakland. Portland, Seattle. Tacoma. Spokane, and Sacramento. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655597952-P5BFNASWWZ0EZJI9X9DW/5982906282_ba70ea599a_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1028 Market Closed in 2003, this is part of the signage for the boarded up and derelict Hollywood Billiards. Sign was removed when the building was renovated in 2013/2014. History of Hollywood Billiards. Historical photo of the exterior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655684139-CHX0WL20HDD00D6LBAO2/5982905332_3b2f59a160_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1015 Market   Converted to loft apartments in 2005, this building used to house the Weinstein Co. department store. There are at least two obscured ghost signs here. At the top of the building you can make out the whiter-than-the-surrounding-white of the W,E, I, and N in Weinstein Co. Below this is a different, perhaps newer, white-on-blue sign with a solitary N visible. Why the bad, half-assed paint job property managers?   Historic photos: upfromthedeep.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/weinsteins_1950...       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655796590-1UQ51KY5TJ61RS7PQZZC/5982905646_964cb0c7de_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1049 Market A sign partially obscured by the old Weinstein Co. Department Store. All that remains is S-T-E-R-L-I but a little digging through the photo archives reveals that this building was once the home of Sterling Furniture Store. Historical pictures of Sterling Furniture Store can be seen at the San Francisco Public Library Image Archive here and here and here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655969093-EHLMNT1BG098P2NUZECA/5982906642_a0ae95f0dd_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1087 and 1095 Market Street Old painted signage for the Aida Hotel and Grant Building. The Grant Building, built in 1904, is one of the few Market Street buildings to have survived the 1906 earthquake and fire. Great historical photos from FoundSF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656080290-K6JKO1LUDVA73PBMT9QP/6172754925_fc9370e9c1_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1240 Market #1 Signs advertising a piano company on the side of a 1908 concrete masonry office building. Running vertically, parallel to the face of the building, it says C.G. Horn Pianos. Across the top, just under the roofline, is says ______ _______ Pianos for Rent. C.G. Horn Pianos was painted over in 2013. The roofline sign is still intact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656181731-FR6OPWO47NYQ12PDAP0M/5986205530_86a454c61c_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1576 Market George Cassar A-1 Moving and Storage. On Market near Page. UPDATE: As of 10/24/11 this building is gone. However, it's demolition exposed an even more spectacular sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656266057-QWXSX7G8FRZGH1WCHF9S/6047099680_e421dcc4e8_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 20 12th #1 Layers upon layers. I think there are three signs visible in this shot for a grand total of six for the building as a whole. This building is eventually slated to be torn down and replaced with 500+ condos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656294740-QWPS0U1KAUP8CAK44CRJ/6047100166_fd87f36141_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 20 12th #2 Layers upon layers. I think there are three signs visible in this shot for a grand total of six for the building as a whole. This building is eventually slated to be torn down and replaced with 500+ condos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656340434-9X9LCBZ4S6SX2RGMK5FG/6047100672_18b3b6be25_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1693 Market   Long gone black, red, and white sign on the side of the Allen Hotel. Only random letters and partial pieces were still showing. The entire wall was painted over in 2014. Historical photo from 1964. Looks like the signs were long gone by that point in time. webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAB-1907.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656381965-PMYEFLXL5OQAANESSBV3/5985583113_0cf13d0b9c_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1424 Polk Harvester Cigar Record Breaker Now 5¢ A pic of the sign before vandals tagged the horse head emblem: As was common with cigars, Harvester Cigars were named after The Harvester, a moderately successful racehorse who set a long-standing half mile record in 1925. The cigar price was cut from 10¢ to 5¢ in 1933 which would place this ad between 1933 and 1939 when prices rose back to 10¢. The Harvester Brand continued into the 1960’s and 70’s but with a different aesthetic to their advertising and packaging. Notice the very faint apartment sign towards the top of the cigar sign. Wonder what that originally said and when it was painted. You can see part of the sign in this pic from 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656471401-RWBLB6E2JRM1A2L7O1UN/5985530153_f510a75447_z.jpg Ghost Signs - Larkin at Polk   Great mid-century meatpackers sign. Patek-Ecklon Division of Durham Meat Co. The bottom half of the sign and the slogan "Exclusively Selected Custom Contr------- has been painted over. A pre-paint job photo can be found here (expreshletters.blogspot.com/2011/03/patek-ecklon.html). and a great painting of it can be found here (www.jessicahess.com/patek-ecklon.htm). In 2013 the sign was incorporated into a mural by the artist Augustine Kofie. A photo of that mural can be seen here (www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/10063415246/). In 2014 the sign and mural were whitewashed and covered by a new mural. A photo of that mural can be seen here (www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/13898408364/). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656522277-BNYBFOMZXG8Y4RJ5RFRR/5986246234_e56423b229_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 924 Geary #1 A riot of faded color between two residential buildings on Geary. Two ghost signs are visible here, the lower one the ghostly geometric lines of a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum ad, the other a barely decipherable sign for the Hotel Erle. Less well preserved than it's twin on Polk Street, this Wrigley's ad is nevertheless a great find for the eagle-eyed. A view of the building's backside can be seen here: The hotel was once a brothel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656617099-SOBRNV8OMIUJBFBGPHVW/6172754525_e0718573b6_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 924 Geary A riot of faded color between two residential buildings on Geary. Two ghost signs are visible here, the lower one the ghostly geometric lines of a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum ad, the other a barely decipherable sign for the Hotel Erle. Less well preserved than it's twin on Polk Street, this Wrigley's ad is nevertheless a great find for the eagle-eyed. A view of the Wrigley's sign on the front-side can be seen here. The hotel was once a brothel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656705108-EA7C0HJ6KGHY5Q4D9G65/6046551553_f63ddb1ee6_z.jpg Ghost Signs - Larkin at Geary ZUBELDA CIGARETTES THE DOUBLE PACKAGE – Larkin and Geary – building built in 1909. Hotel Toronto – formerly Leiah Hotel, Wesley Hotel, and Hotel California. From a 1912 print ad " 'You can't describe her, sighs the Khedive, because there was never anything like her. She's a poem, a little mountain brook, a rose garden, a ----.' The P. Lorillard Company named their new Turkish blend cigarette Zubelda, in honor of the Khedive of Egypt's wife. Lorillard felt that their Zubelda was just like the lady, and claimed 'They taste like shooting stars. And their fragrance is like the Garden of Eden. They're as gracious and welcome as a long-absent sweetheart.' " Zubelda cigarettes debuted in October 1912 which would place this sign from around that period. Packets included a small oriental rug insert. Assorted Zubelda ads here and here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/5a56e8c024a694f00f442944/5a57167453450ad1025bf517/1515656820301/ Ghost Signs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656820370-31G1VIM5WYJEQTG3543R/6164395474_83b1cf900b_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 925 Geary The Dunloe Apartments as seen from Myrtle Street. This five story, 48 unit building was built in 1913. Not to be confused with the Dunloe Apartments on Eddy Street (built circa 1923). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/5a56e8c024a694f00f442944/5a571694ec212d24a8b17f36/1550444650517/ Ghost Signs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656852516-DYNIUO7DNZRT5C243X2R/6047099234_b9d37d528d_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 378 Golden Gate Sign for Hampton Court Apartments wedged into an alley. And here's a picture of the building in 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656929062-47A64K85CS46CG8X4NNP/6047098882_97d165fea4_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 1255 Polk   A fairly well preserved Wrigley's Spearmint sign on the side of 1255 Polk. Under the billboard you can see the faintest outline of an even older ghost sign. Perhaps it's related to this sign on the back of the building? www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/6287506027       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656971029-ONY969HGLIK4UHXC98SV/6165221704_584bea0d60_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 416 Turk The Glenwood Apartments - not to be confused with The Glenwood on Mason or the Glenwood Hotel on Sutter - is a 68 room SRO built in 1907. Note the illegible sign underneath the main building sign. Anyone know what it originally said? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515657011207-9KO22CXSZGR6Q62VRYPY/6173282828_4589188c80_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 710 Ellis Marathon Hotel - formerly the Marathon Apartments. A four story, brick facade SRO built in 1907 by architects Crim & Scott.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515657052938-75X10EYACFIWOG0D5EXK/6164688935_55bda7e1cd_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 921 Post #1 When the facade of 927 Post was removed, the full sign was unobstructed. While there was no single style for Owl Cigar signs of this vintage, here are some images of complete, unobscured signs from Google Images, and here is an aerial view of the sign from Google Maps.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515657243729-YNBYINYEEI93J9Z6F4QY/6173284004_75e4173dd2_z.jpg Ghost Signs - 921 Post #2 As seen from Google Maps. From this angle you can see portions of the Owl Cigar sign not visible from street level. The "standard" Owl Cigar sign would have said Owl Cigar 5¢ and possibly had a rendition of an owl on it. I'm assuming the white paint is obscuring the 5¢ and/or the owl although I could be wrong. 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The historic site of the Del Monte Plant No 1. Del Monte has been headquartered in San Francisco since 1916. The buildings was built in 1907 by the California Fruit Canners Association (which later became Del Monte Foods). the building was designed to be the world's largest cannery and at it's height employed 2,500 people. Between 1937 and 1963, the building was used as a warehouses and in 1967 it was converted to a "European-style marketplace" by developer Leonard Martin. In 2003, The National Park Service and the Kimpton Hotel Group renovated the historic warehouse building into a hotel and visitor's center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559172707292-D35DE2VQ12JM17NG6TYR/7190141944_d76659e67c_z.jpg Restored Signs 1705 Mariposa. Old sign on the side of the Anchor Steam Brewery. Anchor Steam was founded in 1871 by Gottlieb Brekle. Originally a saloon/Brewery on Russian Hill, it was renamed Anchor around 1876. After several locations/owners it moved to Potrero Hill in the 1930's. The current building was built in 1937 for a local food company and was bought by Anchor Steam in the 1970's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559172455181-V3LRCI7QO2UHSO2ARV93/6403539437_b9d6e18905_z+%281%29.jpg Restored Signs 144 Taylor. Refurbished by Precita Eyes Murals, this project was funded by a Community Challenge Grant and overseen by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. From the layering of the signs it would seem the United Railways Telegraph Sign is more recent than the Coca Cola sign. Not sure when/how the Original Joe's sign factors in but the restaurant was founded in 1937.I love this pic of the signs pre-refurbishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559172589020-14OO9FY6ZFZTLOIQDWPL/6573339067_f7dd9acbe4_z.jpg Restored Signs 2961 16th. Lots of refurbished signs on the side of this old theater. Built in 1908 as a vaudeville hall, The Victoria has also operated under the names Brown's Opera House, El Teatro Victoria, and New Follies Burlesk. Historical photo from 1968. Notice that the That Good 44 2 for 15¢ sign was not restored. Info on it's historical status. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559173851013-7SWHI1959AG2SLNGE32P/6457422161_dd15078279_z+%281%29.jpg Restored Signs 650 Delaney. A really fascinating building with a plethora of ghost signs. As seen above, the main signs says Oriental DePoe Warehouse Company Bond and Free. The word DePoe has been painted over in red and the word oriental has not been maintained/refurbished. On the northern side are two other signs: a faded & partially missing Oriental Warehouse Co. sign (with no mention of DePoe. The building is a designated landmark, having been built in 1867 by The Pacific Mail Steamship Company as the primary distribution point for mail, coffee, tea, rice, and silk from Asia. Taken over by Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1893, the company was sold to Grace Line in 1912 when Congress banned ships owned by railroads from using the Panama Canal. Subsequently sold to Robert Dollar and Company and the American President Lines, the Pacific Mail Steamship Co went out of business in 1949. Pre-Angel Island, the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s First Street Wharf was the area's major entry point for Chinese immigrants. With the creation of the Embarcadero in 1910 the wharf was demolished and immigration processing patterns changed for the area. The building was remodeled into 66 residential loft units in 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559172231402-P0S2IM16Z7UNWTSJYBKO/6403367887_515517f65a_z.jpg Restored Signs 188 Taylor. Refurbished by Precita Eyes Murals, this project was funded by a Community Challenge Grant and overseen by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. Par-T-Pak, distributed by Nehi Beverage Company, was a line of quart, or "family sized" sodas sold between 1933 and 1954. These bottles were returnable and came in a variety of flavors such as Orange Soda, Ginger Ale, Tom Collins Mixer, Club Soda, Cherry Soda, Cola, Sparkling Water, and Root Beer. Another Par-T-Pak sign used to be on Valencia but was painted over. Photo of the Hotel Warfield (but not this signage) from 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559172151806-6OH1SY79BLLE1UQ1CC94/Screen+Shot+2019-05-29+at+3.56.16+PM.png Restored Signs 425 Potrero. An incredibly beautiful restored Shasta sign as shot from the adjacent gas station. Sure, the sign is north facing and has been repainted at least once and gets no direct sunshine but it's AMAZING and so well preserved. Founded in 1931, Shasta Soda originally focused on alcoholic mixers, branching out into sodas in the mid 1950's. 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The owner paid to have it restored and preserved, a move that was unpopular with some neighbors who saw it as blatant advertising. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-Bernal-Heights-in-uproar-over-old-Coke-sign-2528929.php https://sfghostsigns.com/ghosts-sign-map daily 0.75 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/84b350a6-e528-420f-9c90-63561c347ead/Screenshot+from+2024-06-15+18-25-13.png Ghost Sign Map - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://sfghostsigns.com/best-san-francisco-ghost-signs daily 0.75 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559169806497-PPKBBWGUDRDCSMEAFANW/Screen+Shot+2019-05-29+at+3.43.09+PM.png Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 1255 Polk Stret A fairly well preserved Wrigley's Spearmint sign on the side of 1255 Polk. Under the billboard you can see the faintest outline of an even older ghost sign. Perhaps it's related to this sign on the back of the building? www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/6287506027 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559171188080-O8OOAPHUH0YMTKAJ20BZ/6894404927_b235a6fdb9_z+%281%29.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 166 Turk. El Rosa Hotel 166 Turk St. Transient Rooms and a very intact 7up sign. A thirty room SRO most recently known as the Helen Hotel, this building was built in 1906 by architect: C.A. Meussdorffer. Many of the participants in the Compton Cafeteria Riot lived in this hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559168984860-XVEHX8D71KU3ZH5QY8OD/25271501057_cbc7e4fde4_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs Gorgeous mural signs on the east end of historic Pier 31. Per NoeHill.com, "Pier 31 consists of a bulkhead wharf and a substructure for the transit shed built in 1917 and a transit shed and bulkhead building built in 1918." It's been occupied by the China Mail Steamship Company, the Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Company, and the Matson Navigation Company among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559170786928-OGOKAES1TOYIABG0SXKV/6370843037_fc9e721a38_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs Willie "Woo Woo" Wong Playground. Shot through the chain link fence separating the tennis court from Hang Ah Alley, this is the backside of a building with frontage on Clay. I had trouble deciphering the sign and/or finding any information on it. It seems to say something along the lines of Cobillard's/Gobillard's Cumax/Sumax/Climax 700. My guess is it's Cobillard's Cumax 700 and that it advertises an old nutritional supplement. While I didn't find anything terribly concrete I did find spattered info on the internet about CUMax-500 being a vitamin. Seems somewhat close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559169956784-91XQZUDGF31YOHW7ZYCP/5986246234_e56423b229_z+%281%29.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 924 Geary. A riot of faded color between two residential buildings on Geary. Two ghost signs are visible here, the lower one the ghostly geometric lines of a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum ad, the other a barely decipherable sign for the Hotel Erle. Less well preserved than it's twin on Polk Street, this Wrigley's ad is nevertheless a great find for the eagle-eyed. A view of the building's backside can be seen here. The hotel was once a brothel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559171529255-ILNF1B335RSONQXLWT8H/40128194651_ae4bd0e42f_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 689 Geary. One of my favorite signs in San Francisco, uncovered when a billboard was removed from this corner store. Let's count the signs on this: Rainier Beer sign, Ceramic signs for Tree Tea Ceylon & Oolong and MJB Coffee why, A grocery store with free delivery featuring a telephone exchange number. These numbers were phased out in San Francisco in 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559170092071-P9EKI76UGOA94NTHXD7K/Screen+Shot+2019-05-29+at+3.47.40+PM.png Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 1586 Market. After being boarded up and abandoned for nearly two decades, the adjacent building was demolished in 2012, as can be seen here. And some info on the brand can be found here. "Cereal Mills were close relatives to flour mills and most familiar to our area was the Albers Bros. Milling Company. Albers began in Portland and moved north to Tacoma and Seattle. It was purchased by the Carnation Milk Company of Seattle when Carnation was unsuccessful in stopping Albers from using the trade name "Carnation Mush." Albers was able to keep its local mills going right into the 1960s and 1970s by concentrating on pet and animal foods. Today, owned by the Nestle Corporation, they are still in the animal food and cornmeal business but do not have a mill in Washington." Oh yes, and "mush" is basically like polenta or cream of wheat. And this was the ghost sign on the demolished neighboring building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559169493435-RMMDTGAVS3DC9WKR1XSI/6183109121_7801de8448_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 1105 Battery. Built in 1907 for the Independent Wood Co.; this building was converted to a bar & restaurant sometimes after 1912. Sailors used to be housed in the upper stories. Here are the remnants of a sign advertising the aforementioned restaurant as well as Rainier Beer, which was briefly brewed in San Francisco between when Washington went "dry" in 1916 and the rest of the nation followed suit in 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559173071734-22G0MKUIPGJ0K34EUK53/Screen+Shot+2019-05-29+at+4.37.17+PM.png Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 787 Brannan. Mural layered over ghost signs. The very faded and partially obscured sign for Cribben and Sexton Co. Universal Stoves & Ranges/Furnaces. Wonder when the change from furnaces to ranges was made? Historic picture from the SF Library taken in 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559170903336-JNSIG7KA85ZP1U85J6CE/6370814543_22b9e4631d_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 916 Clay. A sign for MJB Coffee with their classic "MJB COFFEE WHY?" slogan. MJB was one of three major coffee brands founded in San Francisco (the other two being Folgers and Hills Bros.). Founded by Max J. Brandenstein in 1881, the MJB COFFEE WHY? slogan dates to 1910. Wikipedia on MJB Coffee. Postcard from the Why? campaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559171016924-QQ07ZTVWW70FFCGH22M4/6450418067_1fdac9e3aa_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 1018 Mission. On the side of the Kean Hotel - several layers of signage including a classic Coca Cola sign and one for the Hotel Andrels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559191843446-VMA2STMMIPNJVHUVD2JE/6457465937_f0bd7f61d9_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 3296 22nd . No Percentage Drug Co. Cut Rate Druggist Est. 1891. This sign was revealed and refurbished during a 2008 renovation. Building dates from 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559173399170-5H5FH7HSV9NBGSFT6KRE/7177273216_73f2c11a28_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 302 Eddy. Hotel Herald. (not the punctuation) Steel Frame BLDG. 200 Rooms With Bath & Shower Seven story hotel built in 1910. This would have been a high end building back in the day, with the “steel frame building” line nodding to the expense and care of the post-earthquake construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559169618582-COVDJZXETGQ7S4ZNGYVB/Zeb.png Best San Francisco Ghost Signs Larkin at Geary. ZUBELDA CIGARETTES THE DOUBLE PACKAGE – Larkin and Geary – building built in 1909. Hotel Toronto – formerly Leiah Hotel, Wesley Hotel, and Hotel California. From a 1912 print ad "'You can't describe her, sighs the Khedive, because there was never anything like her. She's a poem, a little mountain brook, a rose garden, a ----.' The P. Lorillard Company named their new Turkish blend cigarette Zubelda, in honor of the Khedive of Egypt's wife. Lorillard felt that their Zubelda was just like the lady, and claimed 'They taste like shooting stars. And their fragrance is like the Garden of Eden. They're as gracious and welcome as a long-absent sweetheart.' " Zubelda cigarettes debuted in October 1912 which would place this sign from around that period. Packets included a small oriental rug insert. Assorted Zubelda ads here and here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559170447707-O6L6PW0NAT18AX03RJGD/6288027994_65c1eca836_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 1946 Van Ness. Built in 1920 by MacDonald and Kahn architects as a showroom for the now defunct California-Oakland Motor Company; the building also showcased Kissel, Dueasenberg, Auburn, and Delage automobiles before being decommissioned as a showroom in 1930. From 1938 to 1990 the building was the site of Ahren's Brothers Pie (later renamed Ahren's Bakery and Coffee shop and finally Ahren's Bakery and Restaurant). The building has been abandoned since Ahren's closed. Want to learn A LOT about the various automobiles sold in this building and/or see historical photos? Read this PDF from the SF Planning Department. I <3 Historical Reports. http://www.sfplanning.org/ftp/files/notice/2011.0562U.pdf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559169182489-WP8HPHYJURM7CVF3A6N7/26253989558_08cb5edb38_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs "You can blow your h..." Partial ad on 430 3rd, as seen from Stillman Street. My guess is that it's from this Kleenex ad, circa late 40's/early 50's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559170711449-30J1FY1WT8SI99YPQK9P/5981880157_3f2a2a4184_z+%281%29.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 516 O’Farrell. A reinforced masonry hotel built in 1912 by architect L.B. Hutton, this 140 room SRO currently goes by the Crosby, changed from th Coast Hotel, it's most previous incarnation. Per the wonderful Up From The Deep blog "If you look up from Jones Street at the back of what is now the Coast Hotel, you’ll find this lovely fading relic of a time gone by. Shawmut is the original Native American name for the neck of land on which the city of Boston, Massachusetts was founded. Anglicized, the word has also come to mean spring. The Shawmut was so named because many of its rooms have private baths, something of a luxury at the time the hotel was built." Photo of a car crash in front of the hotel, circa 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1559173242139-1D0V14CEZ2TDE23DTGOQ/6457409157_b3c7753288_z.jpg Best San Francisco Ghost Signs 165 Natoma. As shot from the back of SFMOMA. 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Hutton, this 140 room SRO currently goes by the Crosby, changed from th Coast Hotel, it's most previous incarnation. Per the wonderful Up From The Deep blog "If you look up from Jones Street at the back of what is now the Coast Hotel, you’ll find this lovely fading relic of a time gone by. Shawmut is the original Native American name for the neck of land on which the city of Boston, Massachusetts was founded. Anglicized, the word has also come to mean spring. The Shawmut was so named because many of its rooms have private baths, something of a luxury at the time the hotel was built." Photo of a car crash in front of the hotel, circa 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652736761-PFOSNFDHG18G6L80PZ25/5976169262_8e8d6049d4_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - YMCA Hotel Golden Gate at Leavenworth Oasis Apartments (formerly Whitehall Apartments, formerly the YMCA Hotel). This 386 room hotel was built in 1928 by architect Frederick H. Meyer for the YMCA. It was one of three YMCA buildings he designed in San Francisco and his greatest work pre-1945. It has since been converted to apartments. This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the last San Francisco buildings built in the Chicago style of two-part or three-part vertical blocks. It is one of only a handful of hotels the YMCA built, and the only one in California. To increase occupancy, the hotel began accepting women in 1935 which dates the sign to 1935 or later. The National Register of Historic Places application - complete with architectural drawings - can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652800261-ASNA6EAL1BD6P9U8HNEL/5976185416_c5054b55b5_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 180 Golden Gate (as seen from Leavenworth) Building was built in 1908. City Century Garage, now the 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center, on the corner of Leavenworth and Golden Gate. Due to fencing in the alley you can read the word GASOLINE but not the entirety of the sign. Public garages often offered automobile services beyond before World War II. This garage likely sold gasoline and did minor repairs for the cars parked there. Pre-earthquake, Golden Gate Avenue was San Francisco's auto row. After the earthquake, around 1910, this industry would move to Van Ness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652872574-5E8GWFU6J3YXPDC0OJHL/5976220132_bd2193b683_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - Numerous layered signs at 151 Leavenworth Now the Page Hotel and the TL Tobacco and Market, this wall sports signs for the Page Apartments, The Page Saloon, and an ad for Wieland's Extra Pale Lager Beer. John Wieland's Brewing Co, was a small SF brewery that operated from the 1850's through the 1920's on 2nd Street (before operating in San Jose from the 1933-1956 ). Owned by famous San Francisco figure John Weiland, it was originally called the Philadelphia Brewery. Given the building's age and Prohibition, this ad is either from 1907-1920 or 1933-1956. This Flickr user has a 1912 ad for Weiland's Beer. Curbed has a larger article on the brewery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653050109-WVUZCMX1I8CWI854UTFL/5978563908_4be3f53eda_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 245 Leavenworth #1 The Morning Side Apartments are a forty-eight unit SRO built in 1910 by Architect H. Geilfuss. From this side you can see a sign advertising it's former incarnation, The Grand Rapids Apartments. Old SFist article about how awful the building is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653142513-MIDMBNQVXV1210H0N0FG/5978005741_033e606a1d_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 245 Leavenworth #2 The Morning Side Apartments are a forty-eight unit SRO built in 1910 by Architect H. Geilfuss. From this side you can see the overlapping remnants of two old signs - the complete, albeit faded, Apartments Leavenworth 245 sign and a partial remnant of the Lady Florence Apartments sign. Old SFist article about how awful the building is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653215898-EMPXRIIFCD9NI40QBA49/5978107677_5b2b340b46_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 335 Leavenworth This 1907 SRO by architects Welsh and Carey is currently the Hotel Western. Previous incarnations include the Hotel Rocklin and the Hotel Black. The faded Hotel Rocklin sign on the side can be dated to 1914-1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515652330201-GJVCU5UM2CRADEAXSVJT/5976169086_a57b96606e_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 351 Turk Oasis Apartments (formerly Whitehall Apartments, formerly the YMCA Hotel). This 386 room hotel was built in 1928 by architect Frederick H. Meyer for the YMCA. It was one of three YMCA buildings he designed in San Francisco and his greatest work pre-1945. It has since been converted to apartments. This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the last San Francisco buildings built in the Chicago style of two-part or three-part vertical blocks. It is one of only a handful of hotels the YMCA built, and the only one in California. To increase occupancy, the hotel began accepting women in 1935 which dates the sign to 1935 or later. The National Register of Historic Places application - complete with architectural drawings - can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653305407-65UF4KVJIJ2OOB9NDZ61/5978837462_b58f337774_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 766 Sutter A nearly illegible sign saying Lucerne Apartments is on the side of The Lucerne; a Lower Nob Hill apartment building built in 1910. The building appears in the 2004 film The Assassination of Richard Nixon A 1964 image of the building can be seen here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653376884-6R4YP4LJZZ6HYGAY981K/5978868826_7312021182_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 701 Sutter Sign for the Sussex Hotel, a six story concrete and masonry Colonial Revival apartment building from 1910 currently serving as a Subway with boutique office space in the upper floors. The building is included in the historic Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653493084-66VGR4NYAQG2YECXA26M/6165220700_53b52fb095_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 975 Bush The Hotel Mayflower is a 102 room hotel built in 1929. It was noticeable for having bathrooms, murphy beds, and "pullman buffets" , aka kitchenettes, in each room. From the Hotel's website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653616528-BJFITCNXV3Y0MWD6QINI/5978423593_f67d5e890e_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 776 Bush Illegible apartment sign on the side of the Burke Lewis apartment building; a classic 61 unit Lower Nob Hill apartment building from 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515653977512-E0UK2UISOTD7JSRMNAG6/5979010532_32c013b94e_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 734 Bush Faded sign for Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Another classic 1910 Lower Nob Hill apartment building. Check out this great historical postcard of the Rockingham. The building is included in the historic Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654071426-SNRO2R5VJKVWT6M6HJXS/5979039590_01a105a3a7_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - California at Grant Wedged into a small, inaccesable alley next to the Ritz Carlton is a sign for the Sing Fat Co. Bazaar. Built in 1908, the building was designed with a distinctive Americanized Cantonese flair. Both the Sing Fat Co Bazaar and it's "sister building" across California Street, the Sing Chong Company, were designed by architect Thomas Patterson Ross. Additional branches were to be found in LA and NYC. Check out this beautiful historical postcard of the building. And a photo of the actual sign in question from 1951.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654503942-60GBDD1ZH6Z76ID7DUPP/5979106094_9e0829b10f_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 616 Grant On the side of the present-day Canton Bazaar, a ghost sign is obscured by the back end of Old Saint Mary's Cathedral. Built in 1854 and destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, the church was rebuilt in 1909 and extended/remodeled in 1929. That would date this sign somewhere between 1909 and 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654565381-BVLRIKZSTZ1Z192K1MTE/5979220197_63be070817_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1140 Powell Sign for a defunct parking garage on the backside of the Powell Automotive Center in Chinatown. Shot from Stone Street, a small alley in between Powell Street and the Chinese Hospital on Jackson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654618271-TFV0RWUN6MH8CM4NI6EU/5979790890_3a3232d9fc_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 840 Jackson Only the faintest of impressions remain on this Chinatown boarding house built in 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654766858-4J9SLYG7ON4WACSHP2ES/5979802058_d856aae7f9_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1339 Stockton Painted over and faded sign on the side of a mixed use Chinatown building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654810123-HVE23OXVY47MYEGJQXQK/5979252663_01c80d72be_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 740 Broadway FAST Call Hom Mortgage 749-2800 (notice the Chinese characters running down the right hand of the ad). A now defunct local mortgage company run by a former mayoral candidate. Also; note the strange sign from Pier 33 on the roof. Is that an ad or a salvaged piece of scrap that's been repurposed for this building? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654930805-LM68RZ1DGL3ADA8TAYX7/5982076567_51f1b67fa8_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 140 Mason #1 Was the Olympic Hotel, now the San Francisco International Youth Hostel.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515654985853-1E6SPAW4TTCT8I2A6F3S/5982636946_cbdfb4bcc8_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 140 Mason #2 Was the Olympic Hotel, now the San Francisco International Youth Hostel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655090347-8N47MH2AMOZGVW15ZTYU/5982833006_41038a2cef_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 34 Turk Pic of the Dalt Hotel sign before it was restored in 2013. The Dalt is 177 room SRO from 1908 located just off Market Street. Repainted sign can be seen here. An article about the renovation of the hotel (and it's sordid history of deaths) can be found here. Street in front of the Dalt circa 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655270374-XWH7WJ9L8E2QR3OUEBFW/5982272529_a9fb314f00_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 923 Market 1907 building with a half obscured ad on the side. The middle line is definitely Shoe Co. Any ideas on what the upper and lower lines read? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655347974-L8HXHEXHFKQSMHECNEHA/5982271525_e1e6349d22_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1017 Market #1 1017 Market Street was built in 1909 by Architect George Applegarth as the headquarters for the local chain department store Eastern Outfitting Company. Changed to Union Furniture Co in the late 1940's, remnants of both signs are visible on either side of the building. From the Up From the Deep Blog: "From a Market Street sidewalk perspective, the Eastern Outfitting Company Building’s enormous, unrelieved expanses of brick are mostly hidden by the buildings on either side. The illusion created by the false front is largely dependent on looking upward from street level. The giant Corinthian order columns and capitals are constructed of terra-cotta tiles; and the entablature, seemingly so massive, is in fact hollow—a galvanized-iron box. Architecture like this is for me transcendent; it turns the street into a stage set, which makes otherwise hidden parts of the building even more tantalizing. The deus ex machina, you might say, is the utilitarian brick that makes up the building behind the facade." Great historical photos here. And article in the San Francisco Call circa 1909. And here is a pic of their Los Angeles location. Additional locations were in Oakland. Portland, Seattle. Tacoma. Spokane, and Sacramento. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655534311-3F9ONWL33NVYFBJLP8RS/5982337909_1394e95195_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1017 Market #2 1017 Market Street was built in 1909 by Architect George Applegarth as the headquarters for the local chain department store Eastern Outfitting Company. Changed to Union Furniture Co in the late 1940's, remnants of both signs are visible on either side of the building. From the Up From the Deep Blog: "From a Market Street sidewalk perspective, the Eastern Outfitting Company Building’s enormous, unrelieved expanses of brick are mostly hidden by the buildings on either side. The illusion created by the false front is largely dependent on looking upward from street level. The giant Corinthian order columns and capitals are constructed of terra-cotta tiles; and the entablature, seemingly so massive, is in fact hollow—a galvanized-iron box. Architecture like this is for me transcendent; it turns the street into a stage set, which makes otherwise hidden parts of the building even more tantalizing. The deus ex machina, you might say, is the utilitarian brick that makes up the building behind the facade." Great historical photos here. And article in the San Francisco Call circa 1909. And here is a pic of their Los Angeles location. Additional locations were in Oakland. Portland, Seattle. Tacoma. Spokane, and Sacramento. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655597952-P5BFNASWWZ0EZJI9X9DW/5982906282_ba70ea599a_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1028 Market Closed in 2003, this is part of the signage for the boarded up and derelict Hollywood Billiards. Sign was removed when the building was renovated in 2013/2014. History of Hollywood Billiards. Historical photo of the exterior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655684139-CHX0WL20HDD00D6LBAO2/5982905332_3b2f59a160_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1015 Market   Converted to loft apartments in 2005, this building used to house the Weinstein Co. department store. There are at least two obscured ghost signs here. At the top of the building you can make out the whiter-than-the-surrounding-white of the W,E, I, and N in Weinstein Co. Below this is a different, perhaps newer, white-on-blue sign with a solitary N visible. Why the bad, half-assed paint job property managers?   Historic photos: upfromthedeep.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/weinsteins_1950...       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655796590-1UQ51KY5TJ61RS7PQZZC/5982905646_964cb0c7de_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1049 Market A sign partially obscured by the old Weinstein Co. Department Store. All that remains is S-T-E-R-L-I but a little digging through the photo archives reveals that this building was once the home of Sterling Furniture Store. Historical pictures of Sterling Furniture Store can be seen at the San Francisco Public Library Image Archive here and here and here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515655969093-EHLMNT1BG098P2NUZECA/5982906642_a0ae95f0dd_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1087 and 1095 Market Street Old painted signage for the Aida Hotel and Grant Building. The Grant Building, built in 1904, is one of the few Market Street buildings to have survived the 1906 earthquake and fire. Great historical photos from FoundSF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656080290-K6JKO1LUDVA73PBMT9QP/6172754925_fc9370e9c1_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1240 Market #1 Signs advertising a piano company on the side of a 1908 concrete masonry office building. Running vertically, parallel to the face of the building, it says C.G. Horn Pianos. Across the top, just under the roofline, is says ______ _______ Pianos for Rent. C.G. Horn Pianos was painted over in 2013. The roofline sign is still intact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656181731-FR6OPWO47NYQ12PDAP0M/5986205530_86a454c61c_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1576 Market George Cassar A-1 Moving and Storage. On Market near Page. UPDATE: As of 10/24/11 this building is gone. However, it's demolition exposed an even more spectacular sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656266057-QWXSX7G8FRZGH1WCHF9S/6047099680_e421dcc4e8_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 20 12th #1 Layers upon layers. I think there are three signs visible in this shot for a grand total of six for the building as a whole. This building is eventually slated to be torn down and replaced with 500+ condos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656294740-QWPS0U1KAUP8CAK44CRJ/6047100166_fd87f36141_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 20 12th #2 Layers upon layers. I think there are three signs visible in this shot for a grand total of six for the building as a whole. This building is eventually slated to be torn down and replaced with 500+ condos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656340434-9X9LCBZ4S6SX2RGMK5FG/6047100672_18b3b6be25_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1693 Market   Long gone black, red, and white sign on the side of the Allen Hotel. Only random letters and partial pieces were still showing. The entire wall was painted over in 2014. Historical photo from 1964. Looks like the signs were long gone by that point in time. webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAB-1907.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656381965-PMYEFLXL5OQAANESSBV3/5985583113_0cf13d0b9c_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1424 Polk Harvester Cigar Record Breaker Now 5¢ A pic of the sign before vandals tagged the horse head emblem: As was common with cigars, Harvester Cigars were named after The Harvester, a moderately successful racehorse who set a long-standing half mile record in 1925. The cigar price was cut from 10¢ to 5¢ in 1933 which would place this ad between 1933 and 1939 when prices rose back to 10¢. The Harvester Brand continued into the 1960’s and 70’s but with a different aesthetic to their advertising and packaging. Notice the very faint apartment sign towards the top of the cigar sign. Wonder what that originally said and when it was painted. You can see part of the sign in this pic from 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656471401-RWBLB6E2JRM1A2L7O1UN/5985530153_f510a75447_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - Larkin at Polk   Great mid-century meatpackers sign. Patek-Ecklon Division of Durham Meat Co. The bottom half of the sign and the slogan "Exclusively Selected Custom Contr------- has been painted over. A pre-paint job photo can be found here (expreshletters.blogspot.com/2011/03/patek-ecklon.html). and a great painting of it can be found here (www.jessicahess.com/patek-ecklon.htm). In 2013 the sign was incorporated into a mural by the artist Augustine Kofie. A photo of that mural can be seen here (www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/10063415246/). In 2014 the sign and mural were whitewashed and covered by a new mural. A photo of that mural can be seen here (www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/13898408364/). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656522277-BNYBFOMZXG8Y4RJ5RFRR/5986246234_e56423b229_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 924 Geary #1 A riot of faded color between two residential buildings on Geary. Two ghost signs are visible here, the lower one the ghostly geometric lines of a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum ad, the other a barely decipherable sign for the Hotel Erle. Less well preserved than it's twin on Polk Street, this Wrigley's ad is nevertheless a great find for the eagle-eyed. A view of the building's backside can be seen here: The hotel was once a brothel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656617099-SOBRNV8OMIUJBFBGPHVW/6172754525_e0718573b6_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 924 Geary A riot of faded color between two residential buildings on Geary. Two ghost signs are visible here, the lower one the ghostly geometric lines of a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum ad, the other a barely decipherable sign for the Hotel Erle. Less well preserved than it's twin on Polk Street, this Wrigley's ad is nevertheless a great find for the eagle-eyed. A view of the Wrigley's sign on the front-side can be seen here. The hotel was once a brothel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656705108-EA7C0HJ6KGHY5Q4D9G65/6046551553_f63ddb1ee6_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - Larkin at Geary ZUBELDA CIGARETTES THE DOUBLE PACKAGE – Larkin and Geary – building built in 1909. Hotel Toronto – formerly Leiah Hotel, Wesley Hotel, and Hotel California. From a 1912 print ad " 'You can't describe her, sighs the Khedive, because there was never anything like her. She's a poem, a little mountain brook, a rose garden, a ----.' The P. Lorillard Company named their new Turkish blend cigarette Zubelda, in honor of the Khedive of Egypt's wife. Lorillard felt that their Zubelda was just like the lady, and claimed 'They taste like shooting stars. And their fragrance is like the Garden of Eden. They're as gracious and welcome as a long-absent sweetheart.' " Zubelda cigarettes debuted in October 1912 which would place this sign from around that period. Packets included a small oriental rug insert. Assorted Zubelda ads here and here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/5a56e8c024a694f00f442944/5a57167453450ad1025bf517/1515656820301/ San Francisco Ghost Signs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656820370-31G1VIM5WYJEQTG3543R/6164395474_83b1cf900b_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 925 Geary The Dunloe Apartments as seen from Myrtle Street. This five story, 48 unit building was built in 1913. Not to be confused with the Dunloe Apartments on Eddy Street (built circa 1923). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/5a56e8c024a694f00f442944/5a571694ec212d24a8b17f36/1550444650517/ San Francisco Ghost Signs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656852516-DYNIUO7DNZRT5C243X2R/6047099234_b9d37d528d_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 378 Golden Gate Sign for Hampton Court Apartments wedged into an alley. And here's a picture of the building in 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656929062-47A64K85CS46CG8X4NNP/6047098882_97d165fea4_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 1255 Polk   A fairly well preserved Wrigley's Spearmint sign on the side of 1255 Polk. Under the billboard you can see the faintest outline of an even older ghost sign. Perhaps it's related to this sign on the back of the building? www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/6287506027       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515656971029-ONY969HGLIK4UHXC98SV/6165221704_584bea0d60_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 416 Turk The Glenwood Apartments - not to be confused with The Glenwood on Mason or the Glenwood Hotel on Sutter - is a 68 room SRO built in 1907. Note the illegible sign underneath the main building sign. Anyone know what it originally said? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515657011207-9KO22CXSZGR6Q62VRYPY/6173282828_4589188c80_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 710 Ellis Marathon Hotel - formerly the Marathon Apartments. A four story, brick facade SRO built in 1907 by architects Crim & Scott.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515657052938-75X10EYACFIWOG0D5EXK/6164688935_55bda7e1cd_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 921 Post #1 When the facade of 927 Post was removed, the full sign was unobstructed. While there was no single style for Owl Cigar signs of this vintage, here are some images of complete, unobscured signs from Google Images, and here is an aerial view of the sign from Google Maps.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1515657243729-YNBYINYEEI93J9Z6F4QY/6173284004_75e4173dd2_z.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - 921 Post #2 As seen from Google Maps. From this angle you can see portions of the Owl Cigar sign not visible from street level. The "standard" Owl Cigar sign would have said Owl Cigar 5¢ and possibly had a rendition of an owl on it. I'm assuming the white paint is obscuring the 5¢ and/or the owl although I could be wrong. The street level view can be seen here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1599439022734-V97GXFX2QFRRJ4HYWEM6/Screenshot%2B%2528May%2B5%252C%2B2019%2B5_37_32%2BPM%2529.jpg San Francisco Ghost Signs - A gallery of San Francisco’s “secret” ghost signs CLICK HERE https://sfghostsigns.com/east-bay-ghost-signs daily 0.75 2025-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a56e60a80bd5e91de77a24d/1600570996248-QN91IO60R45YLY49Y8VW/San+Francisco+Ghost+Sign+Mapping+Project+Instagram East Bay Ghost Signs - On Instagram Follow us on Instagram at @sfghostsigns. If you see a ghost sign in the East Bay snag a pic, tag us in it, and include the hashtag #eastbayghostsign. 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