Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black Winds of up to 90

Winds of up to 90 miles an hour last week wrecked ships

" viewed by an estimated 73 million Americans

two years after the Empire State Building opened and adopted the title of World's Tallest Structure

Despite the avowed object of the meeting - to get money from the audience and others - there was an atmosphere of good humor and light-heartedness

one of three men from a local Life-Saving Station to help out with the test

Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black Winds of up to 90Before billboards were produced on vinyl panels and unrolled at their intended sites, they were an art form created on the spot by sign painters. Posters like this one for the movie "Silver Streak" were created as small works of art, then taken to the site, where they were divided into small squares matching a larger grid. Painters reproduced the work a square at a time.