2011 - Ongoing
Multimedia Piece
Interactive map, photo gallery, and walking tour series about San Francisco's remaining ghost signs. As as summer of 2015 there were 350+ points to the Google map, sorted by type, including business name, brand name, undecipherable, or restored.
2011 - Ongoing
Multimedia Piece
Interactive map, photo gallery, and walking tour series about San Francisco's remaining ghost signs. As as summer of 2015 there were 350+ points to the Google map, sorted by type, including business name, brand name, undecipherable, or restored.
Instagram account dedicated to ghost signs in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area region.
Ghost sign Flickr gallery with historical annotations included.
Ghost sign Flickr gallery, summer 2015.
Research on signs and building ages in the Tenderloin.
Research on signs and "lines of site" in the TenderNob.
Tenderloin Walking Tour Spring 2014.
Ghost Sign Walking Tour, presented in conjunction with Nerd Nite SF, fall 2014.
Mission Walking Tour, Sunday Streets 2015.
Obscura Day, 2016
Talk for the Salted Lash
Emerald Tablet 2013
Photo by Jason Wilson
June 2014 Nerd Nite talk on using Google Satellite View to discover and research ghost signs obscured by post-earthquake development.
Tabled this two-day local history conference both years, gave a 15 minute presentation in 2019.
Article on the ghost sign mapping project.
Article can be found here.
SFist article on the ghost sign mapping project.
Article mentioning the tours for the Ghost Sign Mapping Project.
Video on the San Francisco Ghost Sign Mapping Project featured on the homepage of the SFGate site.
Advertising for a talk on leveraging technology to map and research ghost signs at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library.