I am a native NYer who has lived in Fayetteville NC for the past 29 years (retired military Ft Bragg). A local building (Shamrock Auto Sales 4500 Bragg Blvd) is in the way of road widening and may be demolished soon. This building (on the E side of the street) has a 9/11 mural on the nw side, which is difficult to see from the north bound lane. It can be seen from the south bound lane, but is viewed across 3 lanes of traffic. I have photos of the mural, but I am not good enough to get a proper photo. I have contacted NC DOT for info on scheduled demolition, but have not received an answer. Can anyone help preserve an image of this mural? I can provide photos, but they are substandard.

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@Nancy- Yes, Hunters Baltimore Rye. I saved that one for the next book!
@Matt- Most ad spaces were meant to be painted over. The huge ad on 34th Street and 8th Avenue is a good example of a wall that has had thousands of ads painted over it. Eventually they get scraped. As for removing them, I imagine it would cost more money to remove them than to just let them fade.
@Frank - You are so right.
@ Tom- Would love to check it out. We have a house in the Poconos and sometimes take the southern route. Can you send me a pin-dropped Google Map with the location?
@Sharra- that is a fake. If it were real, it would have faded by now. I feature it in the book as an example of signs painted for films.

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Did you get the chance to see the pristine ad painted on an apartment building wall exposed when its neighboring building was torn down on Broadway near Lincoln Center? I think it was the late '90s that it became visible for just a few weeks (the owners of the building under construction covered it up with a stretched canvas mural).

It was a liquor ad as I recall. Featured a man in riding gear with a horse and it was beautiful.

Q for Frank: in a city that moves as quickly as NYC, why have these ads been left to the elements at all instead of having been removed years ago? Not that I'm complaining, I love to discover them wherever they may be.

Funny thing is that fading signs aren't the only signs being covered up. There was a canvas sign that was pinned up to an old building on 14th street. When NYU build a new student dorm on 3rd Ave, they do so right up against the sign. So in a strange way the more things change the more they stay the same.

There is an old Coke sign painted on a rocky outcropping on the Lehigh River in Easton PA. It's fading but still visible.

There is a great Planter's Peanuts ad in Ridgewood Queens, visable from the Seneca Avenue station.