Café Am Busbahnhof, Erfurt
Photo(s) by Kunst am Bau / DDR. Imported from Flickr on May 7, 2014.
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“Cafe at the bus station”, Schmidtstedter Straße, Erfurt-Innenstadt.
8 Comments on “Café Am Busbahnhof, Erfurt”
Note the Konsum logo in the counter of ‘a’ — a ‘K’ made up of a smokestack and a sickel, symbolizing industry and agriculture.
Herkules-Font:
moorstation.org/typoasis/de…
Danke, Boernie! Yes, I saw that Dieter Steffmann made a digital version – but have you had a closer look at its curves? There’s a reason why this font is free. I’m afraid it is so bad that I can’t even use it for a typeface sample.
Nobody is perfect…
Here’s the sign shown in context, in 2019:
I really wish we knew the year for this display. Ringlet is also a pre-1900s typeface (their A, H, M, and N in particular).
The Konsum logo was designed by Karl Thewalt in 1962, so it can’t be any older than that. Ringlet saw a revival from around the late 1960s, and Herkules a little later, in the 1970s. My guess is sometime between the mid 1970s and mid 1980s.
Smoke screamed the 1960s…