#mail pouch

[leftoverlondoner]

Here’s a good ghostsign, from Fort Edward, NY.

[route22ny]

The factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company in Wheeling, West Virginia. Another view of the building (last seen here), this time a May 2015 photo by the prolific Carol Highsmith, from her collection at the Library of Congress website.

[gregador]

The ghost of Mail Pouch

[vandaliatraveler]

Modern Appalachia: Treat yourself to the best while you text your friends on your smart phone (this post is NOT an endorsement to chew tobacco, just a curious juxtaposition of old and new).

Straddling the Mason-Dixon Line on US Route 7 between West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

[onceuponawildflower]

kentucky club by uoıʇnloʌǝɹʍol Via Flickr: heath, ohio polaroid spectra with film expired in 2002

[triviacrossing]

[route22ny]

Just over the ancient Dingmans Ferry Bridge, which connects Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the Delaware Water Gap region, lies this rural hamlet on the Jersey side.  How rural?  There’s even a Mail Pouch chewing tobacco ghost sign on the principal building, perhaps once a general store.  That round sign down the road is an old gas station sign, Gulf maybe, repurposed for the current occupant.

How ancient was the bridge?  A steel deck affair constructed circa 1900, it was barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other (17.4 feet)  I think the speed limit was 15 or 20 mph.  The $1 toll was collected by the nice National Parks lady standing in the middle of the roadway next to a stop sign at the western terminus.

Photo: August 2019

https://bridgehunter.com/pa/pike/dingmans-ferry/

2013 photo of Dingmans Ferry Bridge by Bruce Scruton, New Jersey Herald

[route22ny]

Barn painted with an advertising sign for DuBois Batteries in DuBois, Pennsylvania (or, as the alt-education secretary might call it, DeBois) in July 2003.  The sign was apparently a takeoff on the once-widespread barn signs throughout the region advertising Mail Pouch Tobacco, whose slogan was “Treat Yourself to the Best.”  To my surprise, DuBois Battery is still around, as they’ve been for almost a century.  From my 35mm photo.