{"id":128436,"date":"2015-10-25T21:14:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T03:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/posters-of-the-underground.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:39:30","slug":"posters-of-the-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/posters-of-the-underground.html","title":{"rendered":"Posters of the Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about London transit posters about the Tube, the buses, the trains and the like, and the wonderful artistic beauty to them. The article has a very nice collection of them.<\/p>\n<p>The one below is actually fairly cluttered, but it&#39;s fun just because, of all the famous international advertising symbols of 1920 that it references, there&#39;s only one that I clearly recognize almost a century later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/glorious-posters-from-the-golden-years-of-the-london-tube'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OBTV_MXgh3Bc5lAUqaznJZHi_OpWd8KmQ3tgdYHmz_7NvPLv5U1qaxhjXs9L6zxgvMDy3pz3M4Q618YO5zkyWigm1xSuPOE3FyW-4I8=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/glorious-posters-from-the-golden-years-of-the-london-tube'>Glorious Posters From the Golden Years of the London Tube<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn 1908, the very first Underground logo, known as a roundel, was introduced at St James&rsquo; Park station. It consisted of a red disk intersected with a blue&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/MohUAfA2wTp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about London transit posters about the Tube, the buses, the trains and the like, and the wonderful artistic beauty to them. The article has a very nice collection of them. The one below is actually fairly cluttered, but it&#39;s fun just because, of all the famous international advertising symbols of 1920 that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/posters-of-the-underground.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Posters of the Underground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,80,66,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial","category-media-art","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25973,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/a-different-view-of-chicago-in-the-1920s.html","url_meta":{"origin":128436,"position":0},"title":"A different view of Chicago in the 1920s","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Feb-12 9:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"The fantastic Insull Transit Posters from Chicago in that era. 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