August 07, 2005
Obelisk Flour
Obelisk Flour, Southland Wine, et al.
Oliver Hill Way and East Marshall Streets
This is the warehouse district down at the foot of Church Hill. Crisscrossing roads and parking lots, old train tracks sidle up to the buildings from which trains were loaded and unloaded. Tracks curve around behind and between the buildings. Tracks used to run right across the road, where that strip of asphalt is now. Those tracks are the ones that ran into the ill-fated Church Hill tunnel that collapsed back in 1925.
I went down there this afternoon, in the bad bright light, to take a picture of the Obelisk Flour building. When Oz and I drove by earlier in the day, I saw that the vines growing across the front had been pulled down, which means that someone is paying attention to the building. Restoration or destruction? I figured I'd better get a picture while I could, although I wish I'd waited till 7:00 or so when the light would have been kinder. There was so much glare that I couldn't even use the screen on my camera to frame up the shots.
I brought my toy octopus too.
I am quite fond of this Obelisk Flour sign because it includes bags of flour, although you can barely see them, and its proximity to the Egyptian Building (which I will make something of, fictionally). The Southland Wine Co. sign, complete with medallions, looks like it was painted earlier. I'm curious about the signage that isn't clear enough to read.
Until I can get better pictures, here are some other Obelisk Flour images: another blogger's ghost sign, a picture postcard of the Obelisk Flour plant, and some old advertising swag.
287 words | August 7, 2005 09:58 PM | Ghost signs