There are still a few painted advertisements on old buildings in Racine.

Loans Fire Tornado, Wisconsin Ave. This is 222 5th Street, which in 1940 was New England Mutual Life and also F A Morey and Son Insurance.

Wink Soap Company. In the 1939 City Directory with Wm J Seidel, Rudolph F Haese, 940 Garfield. The building was built in 1900. Wink Soap was here from 1938 to 1980.
Bull Durham was famous for its advertising: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Durham_Smoking_Tobacco