OLD POSTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 20

OLD POSTERS

■ SHOWS' THAT- ARE LONG .OVER. New York may boat tho world in tearing down old buildings to makeway for new ones.' But it is not similarly energetic in jemqying signs, and posters that have, passed their usefulness. . 'Even1: itt :thQ:...bustling, spaceseeking .eityj signs ,osce rJutaip.'arp.left to others to take down; says, the-'I''-New York Times."' No' One. is' surprised to find'-ari antiquated placard inVsome sluggish country village... Yisitoj-s to sleepy, towns that bask' on .tho Mis: sissippi bank read with fascination of the- coming of tho '.'Show Boat. " They may bo disappointed to find from the date at the bottom.that,.this attraction long since has come; and gone its way> but hardly surprised that tho: out-of-date placard continues to hang in its place. Are no}; the barns of any rural "community plastered with bills of cir-. cuses that have been and country fairs long •over? In New York one- '' might expect conditions to be difrerent. Where, in general; ppople live ahead of the times, one would..think...rolics., : of, bygones would be-swept away, summarily. This is done where advertising space is i.hold at a premium. Before tho last show1 is over, to-day's movie, sign is already giving way to the bill for .tomorrow. But far from > tho great White Way yesterday's,. last week's, even last year's,'sighs haiig on purposelessly. .'' ! ' ■••..•■■■ •■•,■■ Long after Christmas the holly decorated', poster '.sticks; to, tho subway car window, urging holiday shoppers to make tho most.-of-tie hours between-10 ■o'clock and 4.. • A'stroller whose head is filled'with .visions, of. tulips and roses as a-,result of. a-spring-liko day is suddenly ;: confused,; for-a -corner florist, iri loud : and- lavish placard tolls him lie, should be thinking rather of cacti as ideal' Christmas gifts'. ■' Af tor elections have been held; and the fate of candidate's decided;.. Senatorial counteriajices, oil dead walls and street posts still ask for, votes., Persons who might have- been their con-stituents-read ;tho -names' iarid /wonder , absent-minded .:where they- heard them before, '' Many' ;a'; b'ulletm .board, 'likewise announces' . lectures that have been delivered .and forgotten or advertisos mass meetings .that long since have dispersed. . . •,-.' .' '". ..... ■' .. One shop • in ..an- outlying district, continues ;to announce-its intention of moving around.the -.comel1- on the./n-stof. August, now long past. ....•:.■■■.: :.. ■ „