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initial;\">VANCOUVER \u2014 Ninety years after it was covered up by a building, a &#8220;ghost sign&#8221; for a 1922 movie has reappeared at Granville and Robson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-image: initial; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The sign promotes the Harold Lloyd comedy Grandma&#8217;s Boy, which played at the Capitol theatre Oct. 2-7, 1922.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-image: initial; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The sign is painted onto the north wall of the Power block at 817 Granville, across the street from where the Capitol opened in 1921. Hence the sign includes a red circle reading &#8220;Capitol over there,&#8221; and features a wonderful disembodied hand with a finger pointing across the street.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/touch\/business\/story.html?id=6198993\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE HERE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostsigns.co.uk\/2012\/02\/vancouver-demolition-reveals-intriguing.html#.T1EsQ3JSROo\" target=\"_blank\">AND HERE AT SAM ROBERTS GHOSTSIGNS UK<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghost signs from Vancouver\u2019s past spring up to haunt us still. BY JOHN MACKIE, VANCOUVER SUN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 VANCOUVER \u2014 Ninety years after it was covered up by a building, a &#8220;ghost sign&#8221; for a 1922 movie has reappeared at Granville and Robson. 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