When Belgian immigrant Prosper Lamal began selling little blue-and-white lettered tiles to adorn New Orleans sidewalks around the mid-1880s, he presumably wanted only to make a few bucks — which he ...
Jamie Lenore McKillop turned her bathroom into a sanctuary with ceramic blue tiles, a refinished vanity and a tray table made for bathtub movie watching. Jamie Lenore McKillop wanted to channel a ...
HOUSTON – It’s a piece of Houston history people drive and walk by every day and may not even notice -- blue-tiled street signs. Vintage blue and white tiles are on street corners around the Bayou ...
The man behind a crusade to preserve historic pieces of Houston's roadways has introduced a way for locals to take part in the tradition. If you have spent any time walking around Houston's downtown ...
Everyone loves the antique blue and white tiles that mark the street corners in the older sections of New Orleans. But did you ever wonder how the unique horizontal street sign system came about? If ...