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« on: June 23, 2014, 10:18:05 am »

I bought this last week, This is wood siding that came off a country store in Central Arkansas. It was painted by Coke in the 1940s and covered up in the early 1950s. The lady that I bought it from her parents bought the store in the mid 1950s and did not know it was there. In 1995 the store was torn down. They found this under the wall of a addition. Luckily she saved it and it has been stored away in her shed since 1995.







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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2014, 10:19:52 am »

It is 26 feet long and 6 feet tall
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2014, 10:22:57 am »

         Wow Joey, that is so cool.  I have a place for it in front of my store!  happydrinkers
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« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2014, 10:28:42 am »

Great save Joey, we are glad that you have the room to save and display that piece of history.  Be sure to show us a picture when you get it hung. 
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« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2014, 10:39:10 am »

That is pretty cool.
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« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2014, 10:54:02 am »

That's is very cool.

I had the opportunity to buy the Pounce Patterns for some billboard signs at one time.. but Passed as I didn't know what I was going to do with them.

if your not familiar with pounce patterns they where patterns of these large murals with little holes along the edges of the graphics where the painter would hang them on the building, then with a chalk back , pounce it on the image along the lines.. they'd remove the pattern leaving behind the chalk outline to give them the outline to paint the billboard.

The coolest use I had seen was a guy who painted a Coca-Cola billboard similar to this on the bottom of his Swimming pool... Pretty cool but of course cant' find that photo..

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« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2014, 12:20:26 pm »

awesome, how do you plan to display it?
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« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2014, 02:36:34 pm »

Will that fit in your shop as a wall somewhere?.. That is really a nice piece of history... reminds me of the wall they had at the Coca-Cola Museum in Kentucky that closed
Schmidt (Spelling?) Muesum... anyway they had a barn wall type display like that. I would love to paint one of those on a old barn or wall....
Again great piece of history there.... Awesome! happydrinkers
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« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2014, 04:28:14 pm »

I have a 28 foot long wall on the side of a building a just purchased. It will be put up there.

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« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2014, 04:55:53 pm »

        How many pieces did it have to be broken into for transport?
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