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Preservation
News
News from the around the globe concerning sign
preservation, including signs threatened by
demolition as well as signs saved and/or restored.
Links to news sources provided as well. Send your
news to [email protected]
5/26/067: Heinz ketchup bottle sign moving from North Side 
By Teresa F. Lindeman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The lighted sign is looking for a new home.
12/22/06: Downtown Osco sign may be sold
A Twin City businessman may save a half-century-old landmark from being tossed in a landfill.
12/18/06: Neon Museum of Philadelphia
Since 1985.
12/8/06: Reading Terminal
The Market at Reading Railroad Terminal.
10/1/06: Preserving a roadside relic
By Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal
Side of Lanesville barn will be museum piece.
9/15/06: Trash to treasure: Sign again lights stadium
By Kristen Holland, The Dallas Morning News
HP: Salvaged from garbage in '78, neon has been restored, returned.
8/23/06: Theater sign to get facelift
By Jennie Daley, The Ithaca Journal
It's time again for the State Theatre's neon blade to get a makeover.
6/28/06: Neighbors wonder what will become of bread sign atop factory
By Kayla Webley, Seattle Times staff reporter
Who knows where Seattle's historic Wonder Bread sign will land?
6/13/06: McDonald's sign gets a makeover
By Keith Roysdon, thestarpress.com
The sign outside the downtown restaurant will be restored to its 1958 luster.
6/13/06: Back to the future: Holiday sign to be restored
By Anna Uhls, Camera staff writer
Boulder landmark to look like 1950s self after $33,000 repair job.
5/30/06: City Lights
billingsgazette.net
A new home for the 'News'.
2/07/06: 1946 Neon Fish Coming Down
Lottalivin.com
What to do with the Mille Riera sign?
1/10/06: Las Vegas To Lose 1958 Hotel
By Margaret Foster, Online Preservation
Las Vegas will lose another mid-century modern hotel this year, the Stardust.
11/05/05: Fading Memories: Painted Signs, Relics of a Bygone New York, Become Even More Rare
By Joseph Berger, The New York Times
Amateur archeologists can still unearth them, faded and weathered as they are, by walking the streets of the five boroughs.
10/25/05: Historic Mr. Peanut Neon Sign has Returned to Downtown Columbus
The public is invited to the lighting ceremony on October 25, 2005 at 12:30.
8/26/05: Historic Mr. Peanut Neon Sign to Return to Downtown Columbus
Renovated sign is being erected at The Peanut Shoppe.
07/26/05: Betty Boop Decapitated
www.aversions.com
Vandals have apparently found a life-size statue of Betty Boop a little too iritiating.
02/16/05: City Gives a Dog a Home
SFGate.com
Restored icon bolted firmly to median strip.
01/13/05: Las Vegas
By Patricia Leigh Brown, The New York Times
Vegas headliner Betty Willis' "love at first sight in neon" sign.
8/10/04: Anna Webb interviews "Signs of Our Times" project creator Vangie Osborn
Osborn developing a walk-through museum of Boise's late, great signs.
7/4/04: So Many Signs, So Little Time
Walter Grutchfield documents New York City's many signs.
6/15/04: Tulsa's Meadow Gold Sign is Coming Down
The sign is safe, and money is being raised to complete it's restoration.
Googie Treasure to be Demolished
By Kate Campbell, Preservation Online
One of the last remaining examples of Googie architecture in Long Beach, Calif., will be demolished to make room for condominiums.
Mark Oatis Repaints Wall Sign
Revealed during a housing rehab project in Pueblo, Colorado.
NEW Hand Lettering Forum
Just in case you haven't seen it yet, the old Hand Lettering Forum is now the NEW Hand Lettering Forum at:
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3,200 Apartments to Be Built In Glow of Giant Pepsi Sign
By David W. Dunlap, The New York Times
Pepsi-Cola is the spot.
Pole expected to spin again
By Mary Butler, Camera Staff Writer
Council dismisses barber's ticket, may change sign code.
Restoring Route 66
By Anya Rao, Signs of the Times magazine
Nine landmark neon signs restored on New Mexico's stretch of Route 66.
Slice of Americana's roads on display at Booth
By Frances Phillips, The Daily Tribune News
Shelle Graham shares her love of Route 66 images in her traveling photography exhibit, "Return to Route 99: Photographs from the Mother Road.
Neon's illuminating stories find a home
By Wyatt Buchanan, Seattle Post Intelligencer Reporter
Signs of life in Seattle.
Newest Pepsi Challenge: Save the Sign, but Don't Blind the Tenants
By David W. Dunalap, The New York Times
67-year old Pepsi sign to be the signature piece of Queen's Rockrose Project.
Trash it or treasure it? Mall sign's fate up in air
By Michael A. Scarcella
Punta Gorda Mall sign spared from the salvage yard -- Donated to the Florida city.
Hampton® Hotels' "Save-a-Landmark" Program Awarded Top Public Relations Honor for Community Relations Campaign
Hilton Hotels Corporation News Release - 7/17/2003
Recipients of the highly coveted Silver Anvil, regarded as the "Oscar" of the public relations industry, for its roadside landmarks preservation campaign.
Neon sign finds home at museum center
By Mike Dunne, [Sacramento] Bee Food Editor
The original Shakey's Pizza neon sign finally arrives at the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center.
'Up'-ended
From the Portland Tribune
A 1940s landmark Hollywood District soda sign goes the way of all fizz.
Let's everybody drink to historic preservation
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online
The National Liquor Bar, Milwaukee's endangered landmark.
Zippy Duty
From metroACTIVE.com
Zippy the Pinhead cartoonist, Bill Griffith, takes doggie-head sign to heart.
Courtesy Chevrolet
From metroACTIVE.com
A sign unrivaled by any other sign in the San Jose county.
Strokes Of Genius
From metroACTIVE.com, by Genevieve Roja
Long before graffiti, brick buildings were a palette for sign painters.
Today, they're an endangered species.
Sign Language
From metroACTIVE.com, by Dan Pulcrano
What Signs say about our lives, and why action is needed to
save the valley's scarce reminders of its commercial past.
Places: Passing White Towers on road trip through time
From post-gazette.com, by Patricia Lowry
What little group, in its first 25 years, has raised America's consciousness about
its fun and funky roadside buildings -- and had a lot of fun along the way? Answer: The Society for Commercial Archaeology.
A Taste of Coca-Cola History Returns
From 11alive.com
A historical replica of a popular Coca-Cola neon sign is returning to downtown Atlanta --
more than 20 years after the original flashed in front of the Candler Building.
The Eleventh Hour
From SuperPlanet Chronicles, By SupermanCollectors.com
Red Alert! We just learned that Superman is in peril! The 75-year-old landmark Metropolis city water
tower emblazoned with a Superman logo is scheduled to be torn down on
January 6, 2003. Metropolis, at the southern tip of Illinois, is the only city
in America with that name, and is the adopted home of Superman.
Can we save the Man of Steel water tower?
Many hope Colonial Theatre lights the way for borough
From The Philadelphia Inquierer, By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
At 6:15 last night, the Colonial Theatre's neon marquee buzzed and flickered to life for
the first time in decades. The gold, red and blue light reflected in curbside puddles and
brightened Bridge Street's brick rowhouses and shops - and the town's hopes for renewal.
Stop
Sign, State historical society letter leads to tabling vote
From The Salina Journal, By Darrin Stineman
Like an old-time serial that strung movie audiences along so
they'd come back to see the dramatic conclusion at the next showing,
the Fox Theatre scrap has taken on a life of its own -- and there's
no end in sight.
Truckin' Chips Cashed In?
From Preservation Online comes this warning about the potential loss of a
"Manhattan Roadside Attraction".
The Preservation of Historic Signs
From Heritage Preservation Services, By Michael J. Auer
A briefing on the importance of historic signs and how they bring the past to life.
Briefing focuses on lettered or symbolic messages affixed to historic buildings or associated with them.
Vegas
lights: Neon in shadows of giant video
screens
From The Beacon Journal, By Gary A. Warner
Las Vegas' love affair with neon may seem like a
thing of the past, but there are some things
happening relative to restoration of existing signs
via the Neon Museum of Las Vegas. And of course,
downtown Fremont Street is still pretty much in
tact, with or without the overhead electronic
message "canopy."
For
Blue-Collar Riviera, A Conflict Over
Identity
From NYTimes.com, By Sarah Kershaw
It started as a run-of-the-mill municipal brouhaha
over the commercial signs that festoon this city,
inviting tourists to play miniature golf in a
plastic jungle, buy alligator heads and shark
teeth, and stuff their faces with deep-fried
shrimp. But now it is nothing less than a battle
for the soul of Myrtle Beach.
Neon
and "The Biggest Little City in the
World"
From The Reno-Gazette Journal, By Susan Skorupa
Newspaper articles carrying themes of the lure of
neon signs are not unusual. Here's one from the
little sister city of Las Vegas, which can
justifiably claim its own place as a city of neon
worth a visit. This particular article appeared on
the Sunday following the three-day conference of
the Society of Commercial Archeology, when SCAers
were treated to their own tours of Reno's fabled
neon district and vintage motel signs. Watch the
"Walking Tours" section for one SCAers photo
tour!
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