Then there are the hand-painted signs of Patrick Piccolo. One of only about 10 Bay Area sign painters ... in the field and at the ripe old age of 30 was taken under the wing of Berkeley’s ...

SF teems with decades-old, sometimes-elaborate, hand-painted signs and ads ... she has focused on chronicling ghost signs she finds in the more widely dispersed East Bay. This includes a community ...

Signs that promote long-gone businesses adorn buildings all over the Tampa Bay area ... type of old signs are those known as “ghost signs,” defined as fading, hand-painted advertisements ...