This is a remarkable lesson in how interesting and exciting type can be once you get out of the Helvetica / Times / Web 2.0 mindset.
I get tired of NY headlines pushing their city as the centre of the known world. So many major cities have a "Broadway".
> "Notice that the ampersand is also drawn in reverse,"
No it isn’t?
"Most apparent is the backwards 'Q', which Samarskaya surmises might have been an accident due to _painting the lettering from inside._"
All the letters are painted from the inside; what, then, is special about the ampersand?
I suppose just that it can be difficult to get an ampersand right drawing it straight-on, let alone in reverse. The painter accidentally painted the "Q" backwards (forwards, relative to them); it probably took some concentration to get the ampersand correct.