For your consideration …
KETC has put most if not all of their segments from their locally produced show “Living St. Louis” on YouTube, which I applaud. I think it’s great that they’ve made these and other shows they produce easily available to watch anytime. This is a particularly interesting segment they produced about “ghost signs”–which are old advertisting signs painted on the sides of brick buildings that are no longer functional because the business they advertise has long closed. Some speculate that there are ghost signs in St. Louis that are 150 year old or so. So they offer a unique glimpse on what came before. Also I might add, that ghost signs might play some roll in the documentary we are producing now. So with that said here is the video KETC produced about ghost signs.
About Brick By Chance and Fortune
St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture. Home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth century, you can still see some of the finest examples of brick work ever produced all over the city and region. Today the city's brick heritage is under threat by neglect, brick theft and urban renewal.
