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Whenever I\u2019m on the road working in some new area, I enjoy looking for fading physical traces of the past.\u00a0 This curiosity about the dynamics of place makes my road trips much longer as I pause to explore a community, seeking to get some view of a bygone time.\u00a0 That was the case this week as I was out in Oakland doing a programs for the 8th<\/sup> graders in Garrett County Schools at an event sponsored by the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival, Mountain Maryland Gateway to the West Heritage Area and the Maryland Humanities Council.<\/p>\n

It was a long, enjoyable day as I paused in Grantsville, Frostburg, and Cumberland, MD, as well as\u00a0Greencastle, PA.\u00a0 At these stops I slowly strolled down streets looking for things many people might not notice.\u00a0 These traces of close at hand history that got my attention on this Friday in mid-May were fading and peeling advertising signs on exteriors walls of buildings.\u00a0 Sometimes I eyed signs that were here before neon \u00a0and were painted on old brick walls. In Cumberland, which had a substantial downtown business district in the middle of the 20th<\/sup> century, there were a number of aging neon signs touting products or services that have disappeared.<\/p>\n

These old advertising pieces brought to mind an earlier era in our commercial past as surviving visual relics of changing business districts.\u00a0 They were also a reminder of the time when the advertising medium was far different.\u00a0 Anyway it was an enjoyable day traveling through Western Maryland and I was able to snap a few interesting photos, which will eventually find some use in the classroom or public lecture.<\/p>\n

Here are three of the pictures.<\/p>\n

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Ruhl Photography studio in Cumberland, MD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A fading neon sign in Cumberland’s business district alerted shoppers to Ruhl’s photography studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An<\/a>
An old sign on the side of a commercial building in the downtown business district of Greencastle, PA advertises Carl’s Drug Store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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