Cincinnati — All his life, Tod Swormstedt has been fascinated, not necessarily by American small businesses, but by their signs, which announce to all the world — or at least the folks on Main Street — “we’re here.”
That interest prompted Swormstedt in 1999 to found the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati.
The museum is a collection of more than a century of entrepreneurship and ambition. A few of the businesses are still around, but the vast majority are not…