Wallet Card in Nashville: Yorke Men's Shop

When I knew I was going to Nashville I did some research on ghost signs in the area to look for. One of the most prominent is one for Yorke Men's Shop. As a much smaller city than New York, there aren't as many people documenting these signs, and one post I saw about this sign doubted that this store had ever existed, so I didn't even plan to take a photo, but I ended up passing by it and so I decided to, just in case it was real. Upon further research, it seems quite possible it is.

Unfortunately the van blocks part of the sign - "If it's new, if it's sharp - we have it." This is in an outdoor mall called the Arcade that was initially opened in the 1920s. Looking it up again, I found this Instagram post from a user named mcarsten with a photograph of the store in 1973, from an article about crime in the Arcade. In the past few years the Arcade, like much of Nashville, has been refurbished and made more tourist-friendly. This sign was revealed in 2019, and it wouldn't be out of character for a fake, retro-looking sign. Mcarsten suggests that the sign had been covered with wood rather than painted over, perhaps explaining why it was in such good shape.