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    Posted 7 years ago

    thegarage
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    In 1948, my grandfather erected the garage behind our house. Being a depression era person, they utilized everything they could get their hands on to repurpose. The garage itself is the remnants of a train station torn down. The garage actually has a basement in which the support beams are actually 1924 (stamped) Carnegie steel railroad tracks. His cousin worked for Royal crown in Allison park pa, so he needed insulation and a drop ceiling. The garage is insulated with 1944-46 cardboard trolley signs from Royal Crown/Warner bros advertising movies, with Shirley temple, lauren bacall, Barbara stanwyck and some fishing guy. They moved onto the ceiling which is made up of the pictures I have furnished (the pictures only show 1/3 of the signs). I wasn't really sure of the condition of the signs until I took them down. In some cases it would take 3-4 hours on one sign because they weren't just nailed up they were nailed together. But as you can see they look remarkable. Amazing what they did back in the day, those signs were no more important than a piece of wood

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    1. Gillian, 7 years ago
      That's a great story! Thanks for telling us. Would love to see some of the old movie signs, or parts thereof if it they are too large.

      Welcome to CW!
    2. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 7 years ago
      Moon Pie wrappers would be good for sealing cracks. LOL !!

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