A museum of pop culture? Yes, please! Geppi’s Entertainment Museum in Baltimore is exactly that — “dedicated to presenting the story of popular culture since the nation’s earliest days in an entertaining and educational fashion so that our guests have the unique opportunity to walk through a timeline that parallels and is entwined with history as a whole.”
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It’s the end of yet another awesome year — our travels took us to National Parks, site-specific installations, and quirky museums, and through some incredible buildings. We started the year in Denver, where we peeped Colorado Crush, an annual celebration of hip hop culture.
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m a fan of small, niche museums like the Fire Museum in Cincinnati. Baltimore’s Globe Collection and Press isn’t quite that, although its extensive collection of letterpress type, cuts, engravings and posters is worthy of a museum.
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I assume that Distilled London is or was a gin. This three-story tall ghost sign was spotted in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, on the corner of West Ostend and South Hanover Sts.
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Read’s Drug Store was a Baltimore-based chain, and in 1955 its downtown store was the site of a student-led sit-in calling for desegregation of the lunch counter. I’m not sure where in Baltimore I spotted this terrazzo sign, but it’s not the downtown location.
UC Professor’s Project Is Labor of Love: tonight in the DeSales Corner parking lot, a free screening of films about some residents of Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.
The 2014 Letterpress Trail, Part One: we met Chicago-based Starshaped Press at Signature Mix earlier this year; last week, the crew visited Nashville and Cincinnati.
Giant Robot Returns to Downtown Cincinnati: Nam June Paik’s Metrobot returns on 10 Sep 2014!
Gentrification, Inc.: if you’d like to know how the machine operates, read this.
Baltimore Gets a Giant Bus Stop Shaped Like the Word ‘Bus’: exactly what the title says, and the results are pretty awesome.
New York Has Nine Starbucks for Every Square Mile in Manhattan: you don’t even have to read the article, just the title.
Impressive Photos of the Detroit Masonic Temple: apparently it’s the largest in the world.
Spotted in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. “Here.” Of course it is.
This cool, huge building is located on West Ostend St. in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. It’s a majestic two-in-one: Durapak Co. and Vac Pak Co. — Printers, Converters, Flexible Packaging!
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A nice tile entryway spotted on the corner of Baltimore and Calhoun Sts. in Baltimore — a ghost sign for L.H. Newton & Sons, now a Western Union location.
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The ghost sign for Yong’s Liquors & Groceries is located on South Monroe St. between Frederick Ave. and South Lombard St. in Baltimore, just a few blocks west of Union Square Park.
Department of Everyday Visualingual 