So back in Kansas City, My Home Town, I've been watching a wall over on Indiana Avenue, not far from where the old Sears store once stood. It advertised Miller High Life Beer, and had been painted onto the bricks many years ago. Much like the Durango example, much of the message was starting to be obscured by the ravages of time and weather, so I supposed I'd best get after the image before it got much worse.
The weather this year has been iffy, to say the least, so I kept an eye on the brick wall and it's ad for the "Champagne of Bottled Beers". Most mornings, it was too dark to set up and shoot the wall, and many evenings it was already dark as I made my way home. Even then, I don't always lug the Fujis around with me. Last week, with Daylight Saving time in full force and resolved to carry my cameras whenever possible, I made plans to stop at the sign after work.
I turned onto Indiana from 18th and got down to 21st or so to make the U-Turn. As I approached the brick building from the south, my heart sank. The Miller sign had been painted over with a fresh coat of white paint. The sign was lost forever, a photograph that will never be taken. This is the kind of random painting that my dad would have done, sure that a white rectangle on a brick wall was much more pleasing to the eye than any old beer sign.