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Flower Signs (page 2)

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West Side
Flower Shop [gone]
Wichita, KS		 Flowers by Lobb
Lincoln Park, MI
The West Side Flower Shop opened in 1952. In 2006, a new business moved in and the sign was removed. [photo thanks Glenda Campbell]

Flowers by Lobb was established in 1929. This sign might be from the 1930s or 1940s. [map]

Kentucky:
Jackson Florist (Covington)

Maryland:
Charles A. Gibney Florist (Hagerstown)

Massachusetts:
Hartstone Flowers (Weymouth) [vintage; gone]

More Michigan:
The Flower Shop (Hancock)

Teefey Flowers [gone]
Kansas City, MO
Teefey Flowers featured two 1950s-looking signs. The company either closed or moved sometime after 2007. By 2011, the neon had been removed from the pole sign and new panels were added for another business. The flower sign was disappeared between 2012 and 2014. For more, see this website. [left photo thanks Glenda Campbell]

State Fair Floral
Sedalia, MO
2010: 2024:
State Fair Floral was established in 1912. The original version of this sign was probably from the 1950s and was about seven feet tall. The sign had always been maintained but, in 2018, one side of the sign was not lighting properly and the store paid $1,800 to have it fixed. In 2020, during a city construction project, a crane ripped the neon tubing off from one side of the sign and bent the panels. The construction company and City paid the roughly $19,000 to recreate the sign. Impact Signs found the panels to be unsalvageable and built new aluminum versions. They added the electrical components and new neon. The panels were painted to resemble the originals and the sign was reinstalled in 2023. The letters are lit in red while the roses are lit in gold. [map]

G.B. Windler Co. Florist [gone]
St. Louis, MO		 Webb City Florist
Webb City, MO
The G.B. Windler Co. Florist store opened in 1957. This sign appears to be from then. This photo is from 2012. The store and the sign were gone by 2015.

The Webb City Florist sign was built in 1953 when the Ferree Florist changed its name. In 2023, the sign was restored. For more, see this website. [map]

Dickerson's Flower Shop
Dover, NJ		 West Milford Florist
West Milford, NJ
Dickerson's Flower Shop opened in the late 1920s. The sign is probably from the 1950s. The store is still open. [map]

West Milford Florist opened in 1950. Their sign looks recently repainted. In the 1990s, the petals were white, the hat was black and the pole was green. The face had no curls or dimples and the brim of the hat read "say it with flowers". [map]

New Mexico:
Peoples Flowers (Albuquerque)

Nevada:
Dot's Flowers (Las Vegas)

Endres & Gross Flowers & Gifts
Salem, OH		 Cook's Flowers [gone]
Drumright, OK		 Lakeview Florist
Portland, OR
Endres & Gross Flowers & Gifts is gone but this sign remains. The sign is probably from the 1940s or 1950s. By 2018, the sign had been half-covered up with black paint and most of the neon was gone. [map]

Cook's Flowers was established in 1949. This sign was probably from then. The sign and building were gone in 2022.

The Lakeview Florist sign is displayed inside the Monticello Antique Marketplace. It was probably built in the 1950s. I don't know if this sign was originally installed in Portland, Lakeview, OR, or elsewhere. [map]

Avery's Flower Shop [gone]
Jermyn, PA		 Bob's Flower Shop
Northampton, PA
The Avery's Flower Shop sign appeared to be from the 1950s or earlier. By 2023, the store and sign were gone.

Bob's Flower Shop opened in 1940. This neon sign may be from then or shortly after. [map]

Flowers
by Sandy [gone]
Memphis, TN		 Sally's Flower Shoppe [gone]
Fort Worth, TX		 Garland
Flower Shop
Garland, TX
Flowers by Sandy was founded in 1949 but this sign appeared to be modern. When this photo was taken in 2007, the store was closed and vacant. By 2011, the sign was gone.

The Sally's Flower Shoppe sign was probably from the 1950s. The neon had been missing since at least 2007. The store closed in 2016. This sign was removed around 2021. For more, see this website.

The Garland Flower Shop opened around 1946. This sign may be from then or the 1950s. The store is gone now but the sign remains. [map]

More Tennessee:
Bates Florist (Nashville) [gone]

Luepke Florist
Vancouver, WA

2008:
2015:
The Luepke Florist opened in 1910. After a fire destroyed the business, this building, designed by Donald J. Stewart, was constructed in 1937. This sign was installed then. The building was repainted in 2015 and the business is now known as Luepke Flowers & Finds. Soon after that, the sign was changed to read Luepke Station. In 2014, new owners began renovations to building and plans to turn it into retail and food complex known as Luepke Station. In 2015, the building was repainted and the flower shop was renamed Luepke Flowers and Finds. The same year, the old sign was replaced with one advertising Luepke Station. The new top panel reading "LUEPKE" and the addition to the bottom reading "STATION" are lit with LED. The flower and leaves are still lit with neon but the background is now black. The flower shop closed in 2019. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]

Chimacum Cafe
Chimacum, WA		 Daffodil Motel
Milton, WA		 Morgantown
Florist [gone]
Morgantown, WV		 Minnich's
Flowers and Gifts
Webster Springs, WV
The Chimacum Cafe opened in 1955. It is believed that this sign was originally installed at a restaurant in Port Townsend. The name at the top was changed and the sign was installed in Chimacum in the 1970s. Around 2015, just after the photo above was taken, a truck hit the sign and destroyed it. The sign was rebuilt with new panels by the Hanson Sign Co. of Bremerton. [map]

The Daffodil Motel was built in the early 1940s. This sign with a 15-foot-tall King Alfred daffodil is probably from the 1950s. At the time, there were many daffodil farms in the area. Pierce County still celebrates with an annual Daffodil Festival and Parade. The photo above is from 2015. The giant, wooden flower has wilted over the years. Part of its stem is missing and the leaves are falling apart. When the sign was operational, the text was lit in red and turquoise. Only bits of the flower's gold and green tubing remain. At the sign's base, the bulb arrow and the triangulated panel, which probably had a readerboard originally, have been twisted on the pole in a northerly direction. For more, see this website. [map]

The Morgantown Florist was long gone when this photo was taken in 2012 but the sign remained. By 2014, it was gone.

Minnich's Flowers and Gifts opened around 1950 and the sign may have been installed then. There were at least eight other Minnich Florist shops in West Virginia. None of the still-operating locations have vintage signs. They were all independently operated by different family members with the first store opening in Weston in 1898. It is possible that this Webster Springs sign was built before 1950 and came from a closed Minnich’s location. The photo above is from 2012. In 2017, the store's new owners had the sign completely restored. The sign was removed for about five months while Alley Cat Signs of Charleston, West Virginia stripped and repainted the panels, replaced the sign’s interior components, and added new neon tubing. The "Flowers" text in lit in pink while "Gifts" and "Minnich's" are lit in green. The sign is about 15 feet tall. [map]

More Washington:
Benny's Florist (Chehalis) [map]
Arlene's Flowers (Richland)
Ocon's Flowers (Walla Walla) [gone]

Wisconsin:
Chet & Leona's Flowers (Milwaukee)
Miller's Flowers (Racine)

Canada:
Pilcher's Flowers (Halifax, NS)
Delta Florist (Hamilton, ON) [gone]

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