Look what was preserved under this awning

"The Ghost of Oppo" (gohstoklasa) 07/27/2018 at 13:06 • Filed to: None

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So I was sitting in traffic the other day when I saw they were working on replacing this awning on a building near my house . I noticed the old paint underneath and thought “cool” since I am a bit of a vintage junkie and love old brick painted ads.

As I started to drive away I quickly put the logo and the “ RY” together and realized this must of been an old Mercury dealership. I went home and found this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that lists dealerships and indeed, this was the Krebs & King Company dealership. I couldn’t find anymore information beyond that the Krebs sold the building in 1985, but I would really like to know how long that paint has been underneath that awning.

Any Mercury fans out there know when they stopped using the God Mercury logo?

CaptDale - is secretly British > The Ghost of Oppo 07/27/2018 at 13:31

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That is very cool!

fintail > The Ghost of Oppo 07/27/2018 at 13:41

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Quick look has the head on hubcaps at least until 1968, but I bet this sign is 10 or more years earlier.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > The Ghost of Oppo 07/27/2018 at 13:42

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that logo was the coolest

ranwhenparked > The Ghost of Oppo 07/27/2018 at 16:00

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I would guess it was painted sometime in late 1959/early 1960 , when the dealership would have switched from Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln to Lincoln-Mercury.