There's nothing so special about this downtown San Francisco shop. There's certainly nothing historic. I just like it's gener...

This church, Pare de Sufrir, on E. 138th Street and Brown in the Mott Haven section of The Bronx, hides a great cultural history. The bui...

Nice old-school, yellow, inner-lit sign at the Khan Toke Thai House in the Richmond section of San Francisco.

Among the ugly chains stores on 30th Avenue in Astoria is this charming shoebox of an enterprise, Astoria Music, where you can buy musica...

I was stunned when I walked by this old mill building in Port Morris, a former industrial section of the southern Bronx which is little d...

"A Good Sign" hardly seems to do justice to the former Marquard's on O'Farrell and Powell Streets in downtown San Franc...

Everyone who works at a newspaper should begin the day by walking into a building like the Chicago Tribune's. Perhaps it would remind...

Over the years, I've heard a remembrance here and there of the Happy Hour Movie Theatre, or of two movie theatres that lined Columbia S...

Old New York Pizzeria's often have good signage, but typically not of the neon sort. Rizzo's Fine Pizza in Astoria is a happy exc...

Shiver and cower before the hulking immensity of Hollander Storage in the Logan Square section of Chicago! Ahem, excuse me: Hollander I...