Island Market
Besides having a great sign, I love the color they painted the building. It's a warm, orange-ish wheat color, made more so by late afternoon sun. My office walls are a subtler version of this color, and the office glows when it gets the late afternoon sun through my window.
great color
I walked by the Albert Brown Mortuary on Piedmont Ave. today and noticed its humdinger of a sign, complete with a clockface. (It seems a bit morbid for a mortuary to have a clock on their sign!). I came here to suggest it for your series, but I see from your map that you are already on the case.
ReplyDeleteI'll suggest another possible sign for your consideration instead: the 400 Club at the corner of 29th Ave. and Glascock, right near the Park Street bridge to Alameda. It's a lot newer than most of your signs, and it's not very pretty either, but it is partly redeemed by having both the obligatory martini glass and an illustration of a dancing couple. (It has a bit of neon too, saying "Karaoke/DJ," but the neon is never lit up when I pass by, even after dark.)
Morbid maybe, but not unusual. Albert Brown has a clock, C.P. Bannon on International has one (just got a pic of that the other day) and Colonial Chapel has two clocks. Seems to be the thing for funeral homes...maybe so mourners will know if they're late for the funeral?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info on the 400 Club, and keeping your eyes open in general.
True, it's never good to be late to someone else's funeral. (One is always "late" at one's own funeral.)
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