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| Scaffold Signs (page 10) |
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| Holsum Bread [gone] Harrisburg, PA |
Electric City Scranton, PA |
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The Holsum Bread sign was installed on the roof of the Holsum Bread factory. It was removed in 2014 and is now in a private collection. For more, see this website.
The Electric City sign is installed on the roof of the Scranton Electric Building. The sign was built in 1916 and is 60 feet tall. It is composed of 3,500 bulbs with 1,300 flashing bulbs. The sign was dark from 1972 until it was restored in 2004. The restoration took two years and cost about $180,000. The bulbs were changed from 40-watt bulbs to 11-watt white bulbs at that time. In 2014, the sign was restored again. This time, the incandescent bulbs were replaced with LED bulbs in the original colors of red, green, white, and amber. The torches' flames flicker and the circles' bulbs flash to appear to rotate in different directions. The giant light bulb at the top of the sign has sequentially lit rays. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. [map] |
| Utz Potato Chips Hanover, PA |
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| Utz Potato Chips originated in Hanover in 1921 when the company was known as Hanover Home Brand Potato Chips. Utz built this factory in 1949 and the sign was installed after that. The sign was turned off during the gas crisis in 1974 and restored in the 1990s. In 1982, production was moved to a larger facility just a couple blocks away. However, the company still uses this building. The neon Utz sign is animated and spells out the name in separate rows and with different patterns of red, white, and blue. For more, see this website. [map] |
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| This Utz sign was originally installed in Baltimore, MD in 1999. The first photo above shows the sign in 2004. The sign was relocated to Philadelphia in 2010. The sign was removed around 2019. Utz began making potato chips in 1921 in Hanover, PA. Utz chips are still produced in Hanover today. Over the years, the company expanded with distribution along the East Coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The Utz girl has been part of their logo since the company was founded. She was possibly modeled after one of the Utz family's daughters. For more, see this website. |
| Philadelphia Electric Company [gone] Philadelphia, PA |
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| This Philadelphia Electric Company sign is composed of light bulbs. It is most likely from the 1930s. This photo is from 2010. The sign was still there in 2014 but gone by 2015. |
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More Pennsylvania:
Hotel Bethlehem (Bethlehem) Zippo Manufacturing Co. (Bradford) Benjamin Franklin House (Philadelphia) Divine Lorraine Hotel (Philadelphia) [map] P&LE RR (Pittsburgh) Times-Tribune and WEJL (Scranton) [map] Penn Wells Hotel (Wellsboro) |
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Rhode Island:
Cindy's Diner (North Scituate) |
| West Park Truck Stop Huron, SD |
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| The West Park Truck Stop sign is installed on the roof of the service bay building at a gas station. The station and, presumably, the sign were there by 1964 and might be older. It was probably a Phillips 66 originally. Later, it was a Sinclair station and, now, is a Conoco station. [map] |
| Sioux Steel Company Sioux Falls, SD |
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| The Sioux Steel Company was established in 1918. This bulb sign might be from the 1940s or even earlier. There is also a smaller scaffold sign at this complex. The company is moving to another location and the smaller sign might be integrated into property's redevelopment. The fate of this larger sign is not yet known. [map] |
| Cork 'n Bottle Yankton, SD |
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| The Cork 'n Bottle opened in 1988 and these rooftop signs are probably from then. [map] |
| Town & Country Restaurant [gone] Chattanooga, TN |
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| The Town & Country Restaurant opened in 1949. This rooftop sign might have been installed then. In 2005, the building was sold. It was demolished and replaced with a Walgreens. The neon sign was donated to a local museum. |
| Cream City Ice Cream Cookeville, TN |
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| The Cream City Ice Cream animated sign was built in 1950. The 30.5-foot-long sign was built by the Balton and Cummings Sign Company in Memphis. Cream City Ice Cream was produced in the building below the sign and distributed throughout central Tennessee. In the late 1950s, Mayfield Dairies purchased the milk production plant but did not remove the sign. Today, the building houses the Cream City Ice Cream & Coffee House. Annual fundraisers organized by CityScape pay for the maintenance of the sign. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map] |
| JFG Coffee Knoxville, TN |
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The JFG Coffee Company was founded in 1882 as a wholesale grocery company selling coffee. JFG is the founder's initials (James Franklin Goodson). The company roasted coffee in downtown Knoxville from 1926 until 2005 when it moved to a different location. In 2009, this building with the 1930s rooftop sign (two photos at left) was converted into apartments known as the JFG Lofts. [map]
The JFG billboard (third photo) was built in the 1950s. It was located just south of the Gay St. Bridge when this photo was taken in 2007. In 2010, the sign was removed for restoration. The incandescent bulbs were replaced with LED bulbs. In 2012, the sign was installed near the original location. In 2023, the sign was removed and put in city storage until a new location is found. For more, see this website. |
| Kellogg's Memphis, TN |
Rex Liquors Memphis, TN |
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This Kellogg's plant double-sided sign is lit at night. Does anyone know how long it has been here? [map]
The Rex Liquors sign might be from the 1950s or 1960s. [map] |
| Wonder Bread Memphis, TN |
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| This Wonder Bread factory continued to produce Wonder Bread and Hostess brand products here until 2013. In 2019, the Orion Federal Credit Union moved into the building. The rooftop sign's neon was restored. The vinyl covering on the lower panel was removed and the untouched loaf of bread is lit with spotlights. The projecting sign was removed and put in storage. There are no plans for that sign at this point. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map] |
| Hotel Peabody Memphis, TN |
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| The Hotel Peabody was built in 1869. In 1925, the hotel moved to its current location. The rooftop sign on the left might be from the 1930s. It originally read "Hotel Peabody." The other, horizontal sign was probably added later. For more, see this website. [map] |
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More Tennessee:
Gulf (East Ridge) [gone] Regas Square (Knoxville) Murfreesboro Motel (Murfreesboro) Bruton Snuff (Nashville) |
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