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    Old sign on abandoned liquor store off of 63rd and Indiana

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    2. digital_grid (52 months ago | reply)

      My question is, are they making signs like this? Someone opens a food mart or liquor store, is this sign an option or like towering gothic churches are they too expensive and impractical to build.

      Look at the engineering to keep this masterpiece secured above pedestrian's and consumer's heads.

      as they disappear, every city should have a warehouse where the old signs are bought and in a kind of museum of urban storefront culture.

      nice framing and background to highlight the sign and chainwork. Especially the left corner of blue sky.

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    4. Cody Pomeroy (52 months ago | reply)

      I would hope so, but my guess is a lot of these old signs are grandfathered in somewhere... I never see signs like this going up nowadays... usually they're replaced with some plastic cheapo sign... Chicago has a lot of these old signs all over the place still... I imagine myself living in a loft one day with one of these on my wall.

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