Sevilla Santa Justa Station, Spain Nov. 1, 2025 1:06 pm

Coin telephone, c. 1960s Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España Seen on display last Saturday as part of a numismatics exhibit at the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid

Old telephone sign as tapas bar wall decoration, last Saturday afternoon, Madrid

A minute or so of a pharmacy sign seen last week along a street in Sevilla

For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.

Went through my collection of old roller skate skate labels and scanned/rescanned them all. I did not realize that I had amassed 182 different ones. The original purpose of these things was to affix them to your roller skate case and showcase all the different places you skated.

26 pages from a 1940 label sample catalogue. Type & shape inspiration! www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/f...

“I think I spent just an afternoon on it.” An annual repost as the World Series opens: From 2008, writer Paul Lukas (Uni Watch) interviews retired graphic designer Jerry Dior (1932-2015) about his creation of the MLB logo in 1968. ⚾️ Full article: espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/081105

Know Your BL Colours: No:52 Saffron Triumph’s dull colour palette had an injection of vibrancy in the early ‘70’s & showed they could’ve been a lot more daring with their colour choices for cars like the Vitesse as this v late car looks rather fetching… (📸: IG a/c classicsbychance)

Array of push-pull plates from: “Tubelite Aluminum Entrances” Trade catalog Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 1960 Image: Association for Preservation Technology via @archive.org; archive.org/details/pitt...

Main Post Office, Minneapolis

On the heels of his live show in Minneapolis this past weekend, (which was great fun), sandwich historian Barry Enderwick gives this #localangle a go.

Three advertising drawings Alcoa Aluminum, Pittsburgh 1936-1937 American Architect & Building News Artist: Lurelle Guild (1898-1985); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurelle... Images: US Modernist Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/usmo...

25 September 1964; the opening day of that year's Commercial Motor Show at London's Earls Court Exhibition Centre - a major event in the calendar of what was then a major British industry. I wonder if HM the Queen ever went alng to choose a new bus chassis... ↘️ flic.kr/p/2nry4Ge

1964年開業、坂倉準三設計の札幌パークホテル。43万枚以上も使われているという有田焼の青磁タイルが美しい。建て替えのため2027年2月28日をもって閉館するのでその前に一度は泊まってみたい。

Ooh, Pioneer Press archives are now online from 1861 through 1961: newspaperhub.mnhs.org

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Four linoleum samples Pattern book, Armstrong Cork Co. Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1948 Images: Association for Preservation Technology (APT) Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/Arms...

A selection of Pieter Byl's leaflets for London Transport Advertising in 1948; even by LT's standards of #graphicdesign & publicity these are remarkably adventurous. One for the Underground is alone by "KAT" #transport #advertising #1940s The full series : flic.kr/s/aHsmNoSN3y

RIP the man in the greatest one-shot five-minute phone call to Minnesota in movie history m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeem...

A few years ago, @garyhornseth.bsky.social and I wrote an entire researched local-history article about the Minneapolis phone book that Robert Redford pulls off the shelf at the Washington Post in that scene from "All the President's Men"

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025) Point of Reference: Traffic Cone with Flattened Chewing Gum

Edward Hopper is a big Saint Paul Saints fan

Trade catalog illustrations “Elevator Cars / Elevator Entrances” The Tyler Company Cleveland, Ohio 1927 These images (and many more): Association for Preservation Technology via @archive.org; archive.org/details/Elev...

Today’s mid-century-inspired ACEO.

Trade publication cover Master Builders Company Cleveland, Ohio 1928 Image: Association for Preservation Technology via @archive.org: archive.org/details/Plai...

Image, 1965 Annual Report The Dayton Co. Minneapolis, Minn. Image: Fund and Stock Reports Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/01-t...

Municipal guide cover of the day: no nonsense from the London Borough of Brent, c.1969

Three illustrations of a fictitious United American Food Co. from “Plant Conditioning,” a promotional booklet about industrial paint Sherwin-Williams Co. Cleveland, Ohio 1936 Harry Harringer, artist Source: Association for Preservation Technology via @archive.org; archive.org/details/Sten...

“Glow” is out now pretty much wherever you want to find it! Like it? You can support our new label partnership with @subjangle.bsky.social by pre-ordering one of our CDs on Bandcamp. Link below. Thanks for listening!💡 trademarkissues.bandcamp.com/album/glow-with-bonus-album-change-this-face

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Cover, catalog for fall planting Holm & Olson, Inc. St. Paul, Minn. 1939 Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection of the National Agricultural Library via @archive.org; archive.org/details/CAT3...

So much history in a single chart. It is wild to think that in 1800 about 10 per cent of light in the UK came from whale oil. Time to reread Moby Dick to re-familiarize yourself with the joys of whaling. Source: buff.ly/N405ZSx

8:11 p.m.

Los Lobos, a national treasure, under the stars earlier on a perfect night at the Minnesota State Fair

Backlit syrups Creative Activities Building Minnesota State Fair

Annual photo, painted floor sign, Creative Activities Building, Minnesota State Fair

8:41 a.m.

Travel poster, Swedish Air Lines c. 1935 Anders Beckman (1907-1967), artist Image: Digital Transportation Archive Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/1935...

July 24, 1903: Ad, Minneapolis Daily Times

July 24, 1902 Nameplate illustration Minneapolis Daily Times

Fan deck of Formica samples, c. 1955 Trade catalog illustration from “Formica: Residential, Commercial, Institutional” The Formica Co., Cincinnati Image and full catalog: Association for Preservation Technology via @archive.org; archive.org/details/form...

Minneapolis 10 seconds ago

Among the most notable of architectural treasures in downtown Minneapolis is the Northwestern National Life Insurance building (1965). Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, it sits across the street from another of his creations, 100 Washington Square (1980). 

Three covers Danish Foreign Office Journal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark 1959-1960 Images: Danish Journal Collection, University of Illinois Chicago via @archive.org; archive.org/details/pub_...

Now playing: Here’s a pretty perfect, summery pop single I’ll bet you’ve never heard. “You’ll Never Know” The Afternoons (Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) LP: Rocket Summer 2005 youtu.be/72qf0X9pYo4