Phantom signs: Grand Forks Furniture & Hardware
One of the more venerable Boundary commercial institutions was Grand Forks Furniture & Hardware at 358 Market Ave. The business has been...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 28, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: Greenwood Grocery
We recently looked at faux phantom signs in Greenwood left over from filming Snow Falling on Cedars. But there are a few other real...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 21, 20183 min read
Phantom signs: Lauriente’s
Lauriente’s was synonymous with business in the Gulch in Trail from the early 1900s until the men’s wear store by that name at 730...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 31, 20182 min read
Phantom signs: Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars, the movie filmed partly in Greenwood in 1998, left a legacy of faux phantom signs, which helped transform the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 13, 201810 min read
Holy Grails of Kootenay history
Many’s the time I’ve come across something historically interesting in a newspaper only to: a) Fail to fully appreciate its significance...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 29, 20182 min read
Phantom signs: Baker’s Grocery
Go for a walk on Beatty Avenue in Nelson, down by the waterfront next to the RCMP station, and you will come across this curious...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 3, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: Winslow Motors
This business at 323 Vernon Street in Nelson only existed from about 1969-71. Winslow Sommerfeldt (1923-2016) was president and his son...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 18, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: Grand Forks Gazette
Hand-painted signs on the north and south sides of the Grand Forks Gazette building at 7330 2nd St. advertise both its current and former...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 30, 20182 min read
Phantom signs: Hume Hotel
Sometime after the Silver King Hotel in Nelson was demolished in 1947, a sign (seen below, circa 1960s) was painted on the side of KWC...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 25, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: Swift Canadian
Second in a series on signs that outlived the businesses they advertised. This one is on the back of the building at 607 Front St. in...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 16, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: A.S. Horswill & Co. and Campion’s Grocery
This is the first in a series looking at phantom signs of West Kootenay/Boundary. I thought I would start with a Nelson building that has...
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