Ghost murals are barely readable signs, sometimes faded beyond recognition but still visible to the discriminating eye. They can be found in the smallest towns and biggest cities, and advertise everything from shoes and soda to table salt and flour, like this one on a commercial storefront in downtown Sasser. Many have been painted over. There are several of these Ballard’s Obelisk Flour murals surviving around Georgia; some are brighter than this one while others are nearly indistinguishable from the bricks on which they were painted. The brand must have been thriving in the early 1900s, when this mural was produced.

Sasser Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places