Chicago Ghost Signs: SURPLUS & OPTIONS
Another building owner happens by and asks why I'm taking a picture.
"Are you taking pictures of my property?"
An older man with a white beard is walking his dog, a content old pup with a small, dry twig in its snowy muzzle. "I’ve been trying to sell it for about five years," he says.
"My daughter and her boyfriend had a vintage store right after she got out of high school for about five years."
He points at the shadow outline where a sign had been: Carlos and Sarah’s Surplus and Options.
I tell him about the ghost signs project. "That sounds like an interesting hobby," he says.