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Dairy Queen
Rue Jarry
Montréal, QC
Dairy Queen
Rue De Bellechasse
Montréal, QC
Dairy Queen
Rue Sainte-Catherine
Montréal, QC
Dairy Queen
Rue Beaubien
Montréal, QC
Dairy Queen
Île-Perrot, QC
former Dairy Queen
Montréal, QC
These Québec Dairy Queens have mini chateau style buildings and porcelain enamel with neon signs. The first Dairy Queen opened in Canada in 1953. These signs are probably from the 1950s or 1960s. They are all lit at night. I have never seen signs or buildings like these in the States. The signs at the Rue Beaubien and Rue De Bellechasse locations were replaced with modern signs but the chateau buildings are still there. The Rue Beaubien roof is now painted light blue. The Rue De Bellechasse location closed around 2020 and is now boarded up and behind fencing. [Rue Jarry map]; Rue De Bellechasse map; [Rue Sainte-Catherine map]; [Rue Beaubien map]

The Île-Perrot location opened in 1956 and this sign is from then. Dairy Queen corporate contacted them recently and tried to persuade the store to replace the sign with a new one with the new logo. The owner got a letter from the city declaring the sign a local landmark and corporate backed off. For more, see this website. [map]

The Cornet Glace sign and building were obviously built originally for Dairy Queen. This photo is from 2009. By 2014, the sign had been repainted and the neon removed. In 2015, the sign was replaced. The gable roof building remains. [map]

More Canada:
Nelson, BC [map]
Mississauga, ON [map]
Ottawa, ON [gone]
Port Colborne, ON
Drummondville, QC
Montreal, QC [map]

Dairy Queen [gone]
Aurora, IL
former Dairy Queen [gone]
Mattituck, NY
Dairy Queen [gone]
Atlanta, GA

Dairy Queen [gone]
Sanford, ME
Dairy Queen
Saco, ME
Dairy Queen [gone]
Newton, NJ
Dairy Queen [gone]
Fraser, MI

Dairy Queen
Hibbing, MN

Dairy Queen [gone]
Junction City, OR
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of these barn-style buildings around the country that are either still operating as Dairy Queens or other ice cream stands. These buildings featured the now very rare Little Miss weathervane rooftop signs. They were first produced in 1961. At the time, female employees wore hats and aprons similar to those of the Little Miss. These signs are five feet tall. They were internally lit and revolved. Most of them are now missing the weathervane portion. There are only four of these signs left on public display.

This Aurora location remains a walk-up building. Most of these barn buildings feature dining rooms in front. These photos are from 2012. By 2016, the Little Miss sign had been removed and the sign on the front of the building was replaced with the modern logo. [map]

This Mattituck Dairy Queen became the Magic Fountain sometime before the 1970s and features homemade ice cream. The Little Miss sign was gone by 2018. [map]

This Atlanta Dairy Queen had a nicely preserved Little Miss sign. It was the only one that still had a complete weathervane. The sign and weathervane were removed in 2018.

The photo of this Sanford Little Miss is from 2009. The Dairy Queen was still there but the sign was gone by 2015.

This Little Miss sign in Saco is still backlit at night. For more, see this website. [map]

This photo of the Little Miss in Newton is from 2011. By 2015, the barn style building had been replaced with a modern box-like building. The Little Miss sign was gone.

The photos of the Dairy Queen in Fraser are from 2007. By 2011, the store was closed and all the signs were removed.

The Hibbing location opened as a flat-roofed, walk-up stand in 1948. The building was remodeled around 1973 into a barn-style building. These signs were added at that time. The drink and ice cream cup signs are very rare now. They were gone by 2022. The lips logo sign on the front of the building was removed around 2023. The Little Miss on the roof is still there. The [map]

The Junction City location had two panels of a Little Miss sign in the window since at least 2007. This photo is from 2016. I assume that the sign was originally displayed outside at that location. The panels were gone by 2018.

There was also a sign in Greenwood, IN which was apparently a replacement for the Little Miss sign.

More Little Miss signs:
Ocala, FL [gone]
Herrin, IL [gone]
St. Cloud, MN [map]
Kingston, PA [gone]
Amery, WI: 1, 2

If you know of any other Little Miss signs out there, I'd love to hear from you.

Tiny's Dairy Barn
Wauseon, OH
Tiny's Dairy Barn was built in 1963 as a Dairy Queen. It became Tiny's Dairy Barn around the late 1960s. In the 1980s or 1990s, there was a fire in the upstairs area which was used for an office and storage. The roof was rebuilt into this unique design which is open in front. [map]

Dairy Queen [gone]
Athens, GA
former Dairy Queen
Andover, OH
Dairy Queen
Bay City, TX
Dairy Queen
Stephenville, TX
Dairy Queen
Topeka, KS
Dairy Queen [gone]
Shinnston, WV
former Dairy Queen
Albuquerque, NM
The Athens and Andover Dairy Queens have/had rooftop "lips" logo weathervanes. I don't believe any other locations still have these but I assume that they were once nationwide. There are the remains of one of these in Marlborough, MA. There was another one in Albuquerque, NM which is gone now.

The Andover location closed around 2013. Since 2016, the building has housed Dairy Oasis. The Dairy Queen sign is gone but the weathervane remains. The Athens location had closed by 2017 and the weathervane is gone now. [Andover map]

The photos of the Shinnston location are from 2012. By 2013, the location had closed. The building is still there but the weathervane and sign are gone.

Slanted sign poles like the one that was in Andover are now very rare. The slanted pole signs in Bay City and Stephenville have readerboards between the pole and the lips sign. I don't know how common this was with slanted pole signs or if it was a regional thing. The Bay City sign was replaced with a modern swoosh sign in 2019. [Bay City map]; [Stephenville map]

The panels of the slanted pole in Stamford, CT were replaced with the modern logo in 2015. The slanted pole is still there. There is another slanted pole in Marlborough, MA which has been updated with the modern "swoosh" logo sign panels. There is another one in South Milwaukee, WI. However, that location closed in 2019 and now houses Better Together Coffee. The Dairy Queen sign panels were removed but the pole remains. There were evidently pairs of slanted sign poles like this one in Metropolis, IL which are gone now. There were also thinner poles as well like this one in Fort Worth, TX which is also gone. There is a slanted pole in Plano, TX with "DQ" sign panels. There are other slanted poles in Romeo, MI, Vernon, NJ, and Columbia, PA.

This Dairy Queen in Topeka has a slanted sign pole but the original panels were replaced with modern logo panels in 2016. This location had opened by 1968. [map]

This former Dairy Queen sign in Albuquerque is located in the sign yard of Southwest Outdoor Electric. The Dennis the Menace comic strip character was used in Dairy Queen advertising from 1971-2001. I don't know of any other signs like this left. For more, see this website.

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