Sign o’ the times

I stumbled upon this shop in King’s Cross yesterday.

It struck me as a little odd.

01 phone numbers were replaced with 071/081 in May 1990. which were in turn replaced with 0171/0181 in April 1995, and with 020 in April 2000. (As an aside, to research the dates I searched google.com for "01 071 0171 phone numbers", to find my own post of May 2006 topping the rankings. A cause for concern? Possibly.)

You’d have thought a sign shop would be well placed to replace its own signage more regularly than every 17 years.

October 25, 2007 | Filed Under General 

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5 Responses to “Sign o’ the times”

  1. Jon on October 25th, 2007 21:51

    Pardon the pun, but I think it’s clearly a good sign – they’ve obviously got so much business that there’s no need or time to update their own.

  2. Steve on October 25th, 2007 22:41

    And think of all the free advertising they’re getting from people taking pictures and posting them on blogs for discussion. Maybe it’s all part of the master plan…

  3. Jon on October 26th, 2007 04:05

    And I’m wondering what you were doing in the King’s Cross area at 12:13 with a camera – anything you want to confess to?

  4. Dan on October 26th, 2007 04:08

    Getting lunch? Camera phone, not proper camera, hence the decidedly dodgy pic.

  5. Paulie Walnuts on October 26th, 2007 04:58

    Probably a Sopranos (RIP) type of Satriales operation, so who knows what is going on in the back? PW

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