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C. F. Sauer Company was founded in 1887 and is a top producer of species, flavoring extracts and other food products. The sign, features a baker pouring from a bottle of Sauer’s Vanilla Extract into a mixing bowl. According to the company's website, the sign is one of the only remaining continuously lit incandescent signs in the United States. Rising 20 feet above the roof and spanning 60 feet across, it uses 1,200 light bulbs and operates 365 days a year.
I didn't see these signs the last time I drove down Broad St., so I assume they're gone. This article in Style refers to them in the past tense:
Main Street in Cedar City, Utah.
The daytime version of this sign is here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/3926343391/
Taken just weeks before these old faded signs were removed. This was once a first-rate sign when the neon crown lit up and all of the sockets had working bulbs. Probably hasn't fully worked in approximately thirty-five years!
2000 W. Broad St.
At night the sign is animated, spelling out the word "vanilla" from the chef's mixing bowl. You can see it in action on the company's website: www.cfsauer.com/company/index.asp
Im going to try to get this sign and take it home with me.
UPDATE: This sign is gone, don't know what happen to it, im going to ask the owners and see what they say. The neon sign pictured below is still there.
Las Vegas Boneyard, 2008
Here's a shot I took in Vegas in 1990 when Sassy Sally's was still a viable casino on Fremont - before the "Fremont Street Experience"
The sign was updated with new LED light bulbs which replaced the older incandescent bulbs which tended to burn out and leave a somewhat incomplete message. It was lit up as part of the Italian festival which took place on the Square over the Labor Day 2014 weekend. I'll have a sprinkling of LEDs with my pizza!
Pizza and LEDs, yum, yum!
The Pros:
The LEDs use a fraction (1/10) of the electricity of the older lamps
The colors are "brighter"
The LEDs last practically forever
The Cons:
The overall sign does not have that warmer incandescent light look which was appropriate to its age. The sign was constructed in 1937.
Compare and contrast this look with the old look at:
www.flickr.com/photos/rotofoto/2598825227
Note: It's been quite a while since I uploaded any pictures here as I have a really lousy camera and only use it when I am forced to.
Opened in 1920 as a vaudeville theater, later transitioning to movies. The Community Theatre has been mostly closed since 2020 and is awaiting restoration. Catskill, New York.
Opened in 1983 Champs Sports Pub has been providing lots of sports action on their eighteen big screen tv's along with food and games so If your in the Burbank area and are looking for a good sports bar Champs is your place ;-)
The Gay 90's was once a vaudeville theater but has evolved into a massive club offering just about everything. Old Folks living in the Atrium Apartments just behind have good access.
Here was this sign after be removed and replaced with a similar, albeit not identical version in Summer 2016: www.flickr.com/photos/altfelix11/28504415910/
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In the 1880's, Virginia City was one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi River. Today it is one of the best preserved historic mining towns in the United States.
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Independence, MO
"Shoco Aluminum Co. has been in business here since 1949 – from back when Independence’s favorite son Harry Truman was in the White House! Unlike Harry Truman, however, the buck does not stop here because our rates are so reasonable that the buck will go back into your pocket where it belongs."
Give 'em hell, copywriter!
Full view of the Broadway Liquor Outlet with its refurbished vintage sign on West Broadway in North Minneapolis. The building was severely damaged by a tornado on May 22, 2011, and demolished in April-May 2012.
The El Capitan Theatre opened in 1926 as a live stage theater. It was converted into a movie house in 1942, and renovated in 1991.
402 E. Grace St.
Still in business, and the sign is lit at night (although the bulbs rimming the sign no longer light up.)
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The great neon and bulb sign for the Silver Dollar Lounge on West Main Street in downtown Cambridge City, Indiana far outshines (har-har) the restaurant building. Both are gone as of 2015.
Of all the neon signs I've seen, this one ranks as one of my favorites. Also a hard sign to get a picture of...owner of place saw me taking a photo on a Saturday. Came back next day to shoot the motel itself, and he basically told me to get off his property immediately, even though I was only in the parkway area at the time!
This place is for sale, and has been for a while.
(Apologies for the blurry pic, camera setting was changed to a lower one)