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Our last stop on old Route 66 before heading for home was this great old dealership sign that is a refreshing change from the boring standard GM dealer signs of today.
I thought this sign in Westwood (Los Angeles) was from the 60s or 70s. Well, the sign itself dates to 1967, but Lenny's opened here in 2013, adapting it's name onto the old Junior's Deli sign.
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This colorful hotel sign is on Cummings Highway on the west-of-Lookout-Mountain side of Chattanooga (This highway is where US11, 41, 64 and 72 all get together)
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Update: As of 2019, cards are no longer accepted as the motel has gone out of business and the building has been bulldozed. I'm not certain if the sign is still there.
One of the perimeter warning signs along Groom Lake Road. This is as close as you can get to Area 51 without severe consequences. There is a so-called "cammo dude" watching my every move from a truck on the hill.
Dublin to Cork Railway Line - MP Dublin 156.
Railway sign on closed level crossing (XC232) at Ballymartin, near Rathduff, Cork 22nd August 2011.
This vintage motel in Gunnison, Colorado looks totally different than this after a paint job using "severe colors". The sign was also painted to match. I feel fortunate to have taken this shot with the original color scheme. Yea sputnik!
I'm a bit late getting to the news (I needed to get my Algoma and airshow trip pictures out of my system first), but the world is soon to be less yet another marque in the world of automobiles.
I'd been hearing a lot of rumors about Mercury's demise (actually, I've been hearing rumors for ten years), so it doesn't surprise me. And, it's probably the right move from a business and brand integrity standpoint: There aren't that many Fordless Lincoln-Mercury dealers left. All of Mercury's current products are duplicates of the Ford line. The Sable was dropped and the Grand Marquis (and its customer) are not long for this world, so they barely have any car lines left as it is.
That said, I've always been fond of Mercury; even though the image for the brand was little more than "like Ford, but different." Actually, that was probably why I liked it: It just seemed a bit rarer, a bit more exotic than "ordinary" dime-a-dozen makes. (The fact that Mercury's grille designs look far better than Ford's recent razor-blade noses doesn't hurt, either.)
Back in the late 1990s, Ford announced that they wanted to orient Mercury towards the youth market; which I thought was fine. So what was the next thing they did? They discontinued the Tracer and Mystique; precisely the car models that young buyers would buy. The 1999 Cougar was a rare bright spot in their lineup (I personally loved the car); but even that was squandered after a few years. Given their marketing execution, I'm almost surprised the make lasted as long as it did...