Their painting and hand-lettering skills were in demand for decades, until digital technology changed the game.

Sharon and I were driving down Eisenhower B​o​ulevard (I guess it​’s a “b​o​ulevard”) and I spotted a commercial van, plastered from bumper to bumper with signs and graphics, all computer ...

“Ghost signs” are all over this city’s walls, advertising businesses of yesteryear in vanishing paint. But some of the same businesses behind those weathered signs are hardly faded. You just wouldn’t ...

Lester Carey parks his shopping cart full of paint supplies on the neutral ground on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Claiborne Avenue. Carey, dressed in a red shirt tucked into high-waisted ...

Clark yodels and writes songs in her head as she readies the hundreds of signs on the signature white buildings for the fair ...

With a swift and steady hand, Ruben Marcilla is painting a 3-foot-tall “T.” The “T” is white, and Marcilla is cutting crisp lines around it in teal. When he’s done he moves on to “H,” then “E” and an ...