And on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A, the return of hand-painted ads... this time for Umbro, the longtime English sportswear company owned by Nike...
[Photo by Bobby Williams]
Umbro has been around since 1924 ... and their name is now part of the local vernacular, as in, "Um, bro — get me a shot and a Coors Light!"
Anyway! A quick look at other recent ads on this corner...
May 2009!
November 2009!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Goodbye yellow brick ad
1 comment:
There's probably some kind of city ordinance about putting up paper ads on the sides of buildings and so paint is the way around that.
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