I snapped this after we'd been to the Kite Festival, near where we stopped to have lunch... given the newness of the paint colour there's no way that it's original, although I guess it could be a repainting of the original signage...And I have no idea what the hell "Black Charger" might be... I'm guessing some kind of cough medicine though...
I just love either painted buildings or old signs like this... and in the spot where it was it just looked right... like it was supposed to be there.
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There's an Irish Pub just down the street (and around the corner) that's a painted building. Not quite the same deal, but nevertheless interesting. If you do a google image search for "Brian Boru Portland Maine" the first picture you get should be a picture of the tucan painted on the side. I'm telling you, that place has a frigging multi-colored tucan on the side but it's a straight pub! Incidentally the website with that picture has some other cool images of Portland.
I tried doing a search for Black Charger and came up dry. Your theory sounds feasible though.
A charger is a sort of horse bred to be in the first line of the cavalry... Black Charger must be the brand name for whatever cough medicine, hence the logo!
I love that sort of thing too... there's an original (but how old I don't know... probably not very) mural for Bushell's Tea in Sydney CBD near my office.
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