Rory-Calhoun_23Columbia Mayor, Barbara McIntyre, shakes hands with actor Rory Calhoun in front of the Holiday Inn sign on new Nashville Hwy.Kids61421Group of children hold signs that read "Please Drive Safely and Watch For Us Kids Schools are Open".Kraft-451489The Kraft Factory on the corner of E 7th and Woodland St. in the 1940s.Napier-Tire-1102Night time shot of the Napier Tire Co. and service station on N Main St. c. 1946.Northmain376Sign on N Main St. advertising the 1950 Chevrolet at Dowling c. 1949. Below an ad for Sloan Laundry can be seen beside Bass Electrical and Plumbing.Polk-Sign-2380Columbia Neon truck and crane with the Polk Theater neon sign during installation c. 1951.PorterWalker-481508Porter Walker building with a John Deere Implements sign on top c. 1948.princess-2_28Princess Theatre with a pony drawn wagon promoting the movie, The Texans, starring Randolph Scott and Joan Bennett c. 1938. AE Shortly is the man standing on the street behind the pony.Princess-Theater138Princess Theatre with a banner promoting the movie, Radio City Revels, starring Bob Burns c. 1938.Princess-Theatre-old-opera-house-1885Princess Theater showing the Fritz Lang movie, You and Me, starring George Raft and Sylvia Sydney c. 1938.Ragland482420Sign on the top of the Ragland Potter & Co. Inc. building near the depot c. 1948. This is now the Columbia Arts Building.Julian-Mays382Sign for the Julian Mays Motor Hotel located on the new Nashville Highway.Sign-63364Sign on new Nashville Hwy for Monsanto Phosphate Land Cooperative Experiment in Rehabilitation between the University of Tennessee and Monsanto c. 1963.Standard-farm-2134Painted sign on Standard Farm promoting Minneapolis Moline tractors.Travel-Sign384Neon roadside sign promoting U. S. 41, Dixie Hwy, to "Save 22 Miles" c. 1938.VJ-day-46-17133Photo from the 1946 V-J Day parade looking down W 7th St. with multiple signs visible including; Rexall Drugs, Air Cooled, Hewgley's Music, Florsheim Shoe and more.Whittakers-Sign-39-1252Whittaker's Sign Co. truck loaded with Burt Bros. Furniture neon sign c. 1939. Alfred Patterson Whittaker is the man standing closest to the truck. Erb Goff is the young man in the middle.Whittakers-Sign393254Whittaker's Sign Co. truck loaded with Burt Bros. Furniture neon sign c. 1939.Windows-WWII-6140Store window downtown with a display about inflation for WWII with a neon sign that reads 'China Silver'.Polk-Theater-51079Polk Theater 1951 with the marquee promoting, Rhubarb, starring Ray Milan.
