Jobs None: 7 Sad Signs From The Financial Crisis
Back in the grim days of The Great Recession, companies large and small laid off workers while discouraging new hires with a wealth of “no hiring” signs. Train In Vain Historic Pullman, ...
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Worker Be: 10 “We’re Hiring” Signs of the Times
This eclectic selection of “We're Hiring” signs illustrate some of the unusual ways companies offer jobs in a booming economy with low unemployment. "We're still hiring humans", ...
Box Springs Eternal: 10 Sheet-Kickin’ Mattress Stores
Mattress stores are so omnipresent these days it's become a real struggle for sleep shops to stand out from their stuffed, sprung & padded competition. Mattress stores (along with ...
Signs Friction: 10 Unfortunately Named Businesses
Brand power can go a long way in business but as these 10 unfortunately-named shops and stores so sorrowfully illustrate, it can also go the wrong way. To paraphrase RUSH, if a store ...
Tinsel Towns: 10 International HOLLYWOOD Sign Homages
The iconic 'HOLLYWOOD' sign has loomed over La La Land for almost a century, inspiring overseas wannabes to “sign” up with homegrown copies. Hurray for HOLLYWOOD signs - may they be ...
Donald Dupe : 7 More Businesses Trading On The Trump Name
The Trump name may be famous but it isn't always connected to the business dynasty founded by Fred Trump, as these 7 Trump-named businesses illustrate. If you thought the Trump dynasty was ...
Good Lock: 15 Kool Key Cutting Shops & Signs
Key cutting shops may be circling the retail store drain but their doom isn't quite locked in, as these 15 classic key cutting shops and signs illustrate. Key cutters occupy a cluttered ...
Going Going Gone: 12 Closed & Abandoned Travel Agents
Online trip planning has decimated storefront travel agents and these closed & abandoned travel agencies show the loss goes beyond just tour three. The Jet Age saw an explosion of ...
You’re Fired: 10 Famed Flamed Statues & Monuments
Gone up in flames and burned down to the ground – these 10 well-known statues, monuments and large-scale advertisements all fell to fire, if not fury. “I like big fat men like you,” ...
Mercedes-Benz Encased in Resin Gives a New Meaning to ‘Fossil Fuels’
Millions of years from now, will aliens visiting an earth free of humans (or future humans, on the off chance we survive that long) find a puzzling ‘amber’ fossil of a 1979 Mercedes-Benz ...
