Long after the printing press rendered town criers obsolete, that other ancient form of information dissemination, the sidewalk sandwich board, quietly persists.

The Westminster City Council agreed to take another look at sidewalk sandwich boards last night after hearing an impassioned plea from the owner of a West Main Street bakery. “We are decaying… ...

When the city OK’d the use of sandwich board and sidewalk signs downtown, salon owner Emanuele DiSanto spent $500 for a sign that now sits unused next to his salon. Makeshift, hand-lettered ...

More and more, restaurants have leaned upon sandwich boards, or sidewalk signage, to communicate this information from a distance. Sandwich boards can be set up outside your storefront or in ...

Businesses on Bainbridge Island use sandwich signs to attract customers. The city announced an ordinance that would prohibit the signs.

I depend heavily on that sandwich board for tourist business. I am sure that many other businesses are in similar situations, where their storefronts are not right on the sidewalk and are not highly ...

Readers from Brooklyn, Manhattan and beyond tweeted their favorite sandwich board signs, and we're including some of the best here.

Often banned by municipalities for safety reasons, simple A-frame sidewalk signs should be allowed to return, within reason.

Allowing A-frame — or “sandwich board” –signs would be a victory for business owners in Arlington, who have bemoaned Arlington’s strict enforcement of its prohibitive sign ordinance.