Items B 809 and B 810 are E. L. Moore's Three Store Fronts and a Shop kits that were originally sold by AHM. You may recall I was able to find the second kit at last year's Syracuse train show.
No doubt these two kits will pop-up somewhere else in my catalogue travels.
I always thought those banners were gaudy. I never understood the joke until I read the original article... how all stores were having sales but the middle one hired the sign guy on the left to make a banner called "Main Entrance". That gets lost, the way these kits are sold.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. They should have created some other signage for these kits so they made a bit more sense.
DeleteI watched an old "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx. One of his contestants/guests was Richard Armour... and I realized I had first heard of this funny writer/poet from an article by E. L. Moore.
ReplyDeleteWas that on youtube? Do you have a link? I have one book by Richard Armour: Drug Store Days: My Youth Among the Pills and Potions.
DeleteSee also: https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.com/2015/07/e-l-moores-reading-list-for-ye-olde.html
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