On March 20, 2001 the Byrnes Building on the corner of Grand River Avenue and M.A.C. Avenue in downtown East Lansing was demolished. The demolition exposed several painted advertisments on the west side of the D.S. Brown Building (307 E. Grand River) that had been painted in the early 1950s and then covered by the construction of the Byrnes Building in the late 1950s.
The largest ad, covering over half of the wall, was for Vernor's Ginger Ale. It features the large Vernor's script logo and the Vernor's Gnome (note the Spartan Helmet on the Gnome). It was painted by Dyer Company employee Ray Myers (b. 1928).
The second ad was for the business that had occupied the Brown Building prior to the Curious Bookstore - the Ink Pot, seller of school supplies.