Vintage beer signs continue to be as cool as the brew you love to drink. And, if you’re lucky enough to find a highly collectible one in a garage sale or a thrift store, it could be worth ...

The old-time beer signs got brittle in the sun, Doug Praslowicz said, and fluorescent light ballasts broke. "We had those old Pabst signs forever," he said. "They burn out after a while, and it's ...

WINNEBAGO — While visiting his grandparents in St. Paul as a kid, Steve Miner remembers nursing an orange pop with his grandfather at a local watering hole near the state ...

Sign restorer Don Van Kannel doesn’t have to take his work home with him. It’s already there. Van Kannel has 128 vintage advertising signs hanging in his home, not counting those in his ...

Hires Root Beer used a small child in a bib and a distinctive type style for the word Hires. In 1915, they used a googly eyed man called Josh Slinger, the soda jerk. He indeed was googly eyed.

The signs came about in the 1970s. That’s when Old Style began giving them out for free to bars they’d done a lot of business with, even paying crews to install them.

If you’re interested in Chicago bars with Old Style signs, our beer historian Liz Garibay is leading a tour of them on February 9th as part of History on Tap. More info here: https://goo.gl/gNDOrS ...