Remembrance of things past.

The article discusses the renovation of Champs Elysées métro station in Paris, France. The city's métro station was introduced with postwar modernisation programmes affecting its contours and colour schemes making it ugly. During the renovation, advertising billboards are found. The advertisements reveal attractive hints of graphic and typographic styles. Moreover, remains of RATP (the Parisian public transport network) communications are also found. These are legal notices from 1942 related to safety, boxed in columns in phonebook-style typesetting.