2012-03-12

I am trying to maintain my "travel eyes" when I am at home. When I travel, I tend to pay more attention to signs -- not just in terms of direction and destination, but to their style and age and surroundings. I have a particular fascination with what I think of as "ghost signs" -- the near-vanished outlines of storefront letters and the faded advertisements of businesses no longer with us.

But Memphis's Lucky Heart company is still filling orders, as far as I can tell, and its history is calling out for some other afternoon for me to become better acquainted with it.

( more glimpses of a Memphis corner )