Pappy
Living the Dream
I remember going down town and painting a lot of store windows to match the seasons. I think we did this while we took art class.
Do any of you remember doing this in school?
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I don't recall much in the way of painted store-fronts, but I sure do remember the lovely window displays, where life-size manikins were sporting the latest.
Loved window shopping back in the day!
Aunt Bea
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- Near Mount Pilot
We did it on a much smaller scale at home with glass wax window stencils.
jujube
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We always used cakes of Bon-Ami. Wet it down, scrub the paintbrush around to mix it up, a couple drops of food coloring and voila! you had home-made glass paint.
One year we talked mom into letting us use the spray paint/snow on the windows. It was like scraping cement off the glass after it had set for a couple of weeks. Never again with the spray stuff.
One year we talked mom into letting us use the spray paint/snow on the windows. It was like scraping cement off the glass after it had set for a couple of weeks. Never again with the spray stuff.
asp3
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- Location
- Silicon Valley, CA
I never did it myself but my wife used to do it. She offered her services for painting windows when she was a teenager. She kept doing it for years and eventually painted a mural on the side of a semi trailer.
Pappy
Living the Dream
No Gary. We lived by the rr tracks so we did our share of that, but not much. My kids were brought up to behave better than I did.