After more demo­li­tion of yet another wall we found this card for Hodes Auto Parts neatly tucked into the paper lin­ing behind the fir lap sheath­ing. I liked the vin­tage look of the card and since it too came from an appar­ently orig­i­nal wall, I guessed that it too would date from 1928 when the house was orig­i­nally con­structed. I did a quick search on the inter­net later that evening and found a ref­er­ence to a post­card with an adver­tise­ment for Hodes Auto Parts dat­ing to 1928 — Bingo!

Then it occurred to me why the design looked so famil­iar. The logo I cre­ated for my cam­era design busi­ness was inten­tion­ally cre­ated to have a vin­tage look and it bears a remark­able resem­blance to Hodes’ card.
It must be a sign …

I placed the logo on a sim­i­lar card size here to show the resemblance.

In other news, my wife Lisa is begin­ning her con­tri­bu­tions to the Bun­galoft sec­tion of the Métier blog. Look for the first install­ment com­ing soon.

Kurt