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Same way this chicken Coop was done;
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Or the 3 garages that were covered w/ SEASIDE signs in Summerland, Calif. years ago. They were retrieved from the company dump area.

"I wonder if someone staged that photo with repro signs? I've seen originals sell in the $3K range. Some unscrupulous sellers would go to great lengths to deceive with that kind of money at stake." lastgas15 ........... i have to ask the same or a close question. in this age of digital cameras(which have been around for awhile now),why such a crappy picture?even if an old photo,you would think there would be a much better quality pic. available. i mean,would you have taken only 1 picture of a find like that?and also kind of surprising that no one has heard of this find before? just seems kind of fishy to me and just my humble opinion

Years back,a friend of mine was in Mo. and came across a salvage yard that was closing. The roof on one of the building had the 2 piece shells,both gasoline and motor oil,nailed to the roof. The owner had turned them over before installing and after installing he applied the silver tar roof paint. Brad got the signs and we kept a set of both each and then sold the rest. You had to lay them out in the yard and line up the tops and bottoms. The match was not perfect and some were faded more than the others. You can see one of them in this Easter picture of my grandson on his egg hunt.

I bumped up an older post about these signs, titled "everything has a story". Wierd thing, when you click on the link in that old thread ,it takes you to the current auction. Whats up with that? At that time wasnt the story something like they wouldnt fit on a pole right or something? Thats why they were called back to the factory? Or am I just imagining that?

It looks like it has a new owner
as it has hit reserve ...(1200.)

Just ended at $1700.00
Bill

Brought .... 1700.

Vietnam (at least when my husband was stationed there in the 70's) they would use flattened Coke and other soda cans for roof shingles, and I imagine there were buildings with oil can roofs.

My question about the pic is this. Before the tornado we had, in addition to other outbuildings, a 60' x 30' tobacco barn with a tin roof dating from the 30's. I have friends with bigger tobacco barns and I imagine livestock barns are even bigger. So not taking in account the pitched roof, lets assume my barn had at least 1800 square feet of roof area (with the pitch I would guess at least 3000). How many overlapped signs would that have made? Like HuskyBob and others had mentioned, was the sign located in a manufacturing area where someone would have access to that amount of signage?

Where they the types of signs that could have been melted down? (this may be a really stupid question--I don't know what this sign is made of and even if I did, don't know enough about signs. Plus had trouble looking it up on ebay--but I was just wondering because of my next Q)

Would that tonage of signs more likely been recyled by the manufacturer if they could have been melted down?

Nicole, Signs are Porcelain coated Steel Both sides.
Eons ago I salvaged cans w/ permission from a fallen down shed/workshop building. They were using 1qt cans as Roof Shingles. Top & Bottoms were removed & seam cut, then they were run threw a home made press made w/ old Studebaker transmission gears to give cans a washboard impression [UUUUUUUU]. Each can could be staggered one or several grooves & still would interlock.
There were thousands that had been pressed & stacked but had been rained on & rusted together [Polly, Gilmore, Sunset, Mohawk, Hancock, Seaside, Signal, Hy Flash, Beacon, Pennzoil, Texaco, Mobil, SHELL, Douglas, Richfield, PDQ, Rio Grande, Union, etc etc. ALL West Coast Cans].

After the father or son had made deliveries to Los Angeles area, they would stop at stations on their way home & collect the empty cans to make into shingles.

Pretty ingenious really. That's being thrify and green all at once.