Advertising archaeology

One thing I love about the London Underground is their habit of occasionally scraping off almost all of the accumulated years of advertising posters in their stations. If they scrape them all off you get a blank wall; if they just scrape the top layer off you see last month's ad; sometimes they scrape down through decades of stuff until only the very first one seems to be left. A few months ago therefore I saw an original poster ad for Point Break at Oxford Circus; today I came across a poster for Peter Jackson's (yes, that one) muppet-snuff-porn classic Meet the Feebles.  I managed to get a photo of the latter before they covered it up again; below it are some equally venerable ads for the tube itself.

Both films date to around 1991 in the UK, which gives us some idea of just how long some of the underground's poster spots must have been accumulating these ads - somewhere under all the glue and graffiti and, yes, other posters must be the original ads for The Crow and Reservoir Dogs and...oh, pick your own favourite film of the last fifteen years.

Comments

[Abi]

I saw an amazing one at High St. Ken station recently. They'd removed a tube map to reveal an ad from a government department looking for typists. There was a really great 70s-looking cartoon of a sort of 'hot' secretary in a short skirt, and the promise of £75 a week, or something!