Too Bad This Giant Silo Isn't Really Filled With Potato Chips
Drivers along Grand River Avenue outside of Portland, Michigan for decades have spotted an iconic farm silo that carries advertising for New Era potato chips. Roadside advertising on barnsides, silos and buildings in cities were quite common in the early days of automobile travel. Think Mail Pouch Tobacco and Cola-Cola nationally and any number of local and regional brands. Many of these are left to fade after no one paid to upkeep them. They're known as ghost signs and dot both the urban and rural landscape for those to spot and enjoy them. Mail Pouch Tobacco once had 85 known barns painted ...
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