A Sign on the Wall

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We have an occasional series with the theme: “Prewar cars are still everywhere around us!” But we never expected to find this one. Your editor Rutger Booy was born in The Hague, The Netherlands and spent his whole childhood there. So you can imagine his surprise when on a visit he suddenly spotted this early hand-painted sign on a blank wall. As a young boy he has walked by for many times without seeing it. It’s an advertisement for a garage that rented in-door parking space. The first advertising murals appeared around 1900 and were in use until the early forties. Too bad many of these murals have been destroyed, but fortunately there are people who take pity on them and try to restore them in their former glory. (photo Rutger Booy)

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