As I wander through different cities, I try my best to keep track of where I spot ghost signs. This two-in-one for Ballard’s is somewhere in Birmingham, but I have no idea where.
On the left is Ballard’s Obelisk, with Ballard’s Insurance Feeds on the right. I don’t even understand what these signs advertised.
Department of Everyday Visualingual 
Love these too and like the term “ghost sign.” I haven’t heard that before.
Ballard’s Obelisk was a flour milled in Louisville for many years. Ballard’s Insurance Feed — I’m speculating — was animal feed, probably for chickens. I recall a nice big Ballard’s Obelisk ghost sign on the License Commission bldg. in downtown Tuscaloosa. God knows whether it withstood the tornado of a couple years back.
The Ballard’s ghost sign you photographed is probably on First Avenue South in Birmingham. First Avenue South was once one of the main business districts, as recently as the 1950’s.
I’m sure you know better than I do. I think this was about half a block from an overpass, but I couldn’t find it in Google Street View. Ahh, well…
here is the view of the Ghost signs from Google Maps
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1st+avenue+south+and+25th+street+south+birmingham+alabama&hl=en&ll=33.51446,-86.797891&spn=0.000681,0.001032&sll=32.576226,-86.680736&sspn=7.966991,16.907959&t=h&hnear=1st+Ave+S+%26+25th+St+S,+Birmingham,+Jefferson,+Alabama+35233&z=21
Thanks, Joseph! Wow, 25th St. — we walked farther than I thought.
Does anyone know the exact whereabouts of this sign? Should be on Oxmoor road somewhere
Wow, I have no idea, but it’s an amazing ghost sign!
Might be the Edgewood Frame Shop, corner of Oxmoor and Broadway in Homewood. See google maps at https://maps.google.com/maps?num=20&q=oxmoor+road+birmingham+al&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x888919483fa6cb1d:0x5e04e0bc67384e37,Oxmoor+Rd,+Birmingham,+AL+35209&gl=us&ei=bVmKUsLmKei-sQTbrILoBw&ved=0CDEQ8gEwAQ