Evidence » course: letters, signs and symbols

I think that for most of these, a title under each symbol is not really necessary (except for maybe pawn shop). Everything is down to the bare minimum and still conveys so much, that it is easy to figure out what kind of shops these are.

-Scott M

scott it's funny you singled out the pawn shop as an exception
that is the one symbol from the collection that i have actually seen on a shop (except maybe the barber pole)
the first of the two, i believe, comes from a scale
i'm not sure about the second
anyone have any thoughts

"In the Middle Ages, hair was not the only thing that barbers cut. They also performed surgery, tooth extractions, and bloodletting...The barber pole as a symbol of the profession is a legacy of bloodletting. The barber surgeon's necessities for that curious custom were a staff for the patient to grasp (so the veins on the arm would stand out sharply), a basin to hold leeches and catch blood, and a copious supply of linen bandages. After the operation was completed, the bandages would be hung on the staff and sometimes placed outside as advertisement. Twirled by the wind, they would form a red & white spiral pattern that was later adopted for painted poles. The earliest poles were surmounted by a leech basin, which in time was transformed into a ball. One Interpretation of the colors of the barber pole was that Red represented the blood, Blue the veins, and White the bandages. Which has been retained by the modern Barber-Stylist." (http://www.adsd.com/holtz/bpole.html)