When I was growing up, my family drove past the Salt Lake Costume Company several times a week as it was on the route to my grandmother’s home. With weekly piano lessons and every other week Sunday family dinners at her house, we were very familiar with the costume shop and its really cool neon sign with the knight and horse. When the shop finally closed for good about 15 years ago, the building fell into disrepair and neglect. About 6 years ago, a developer bought the property and repurposed it for apartments and retail. Our firm was lucky enough to work on the project, and I was so happy when they decided to save the neon sign.
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This looks really amazing 🙂
Thanks! It was a really fun project to work on, all the more so because of my personal history with the building and sign. 🙂
Very clever, we don’t get much of that where I live ☹️
Oh, that’s too bad. 😦
What a great sign and how great that they preserved it (and you helped, maybe even convinced them).
I don’t know if my husband talked them into keeping it or if that was always the plan of the developer.
Either way, I’m glad it’s still there.
I’d love to see it lit up. It adds such an air of whimsy to a rather ordinary-looking building.
janet
It does.
This is the first post I’ve gotten from you in several months. I hope you are well. Regardless, it’s good to have you back!
My surgery has been moved to April 5. I’ve been so busy with pre-op thing that I haven’t had time to think about posting photos. It also still hurts a lot to sit for too long. I hope to post until the surgery, and then it will be a couple of weeks before I can come back full-time. 🙂 Thanks!
Isn’t it great when new owners keep bits of the past 🙂
Yes it is. It makes the community feel intact.
Here is my entry for the week.
This is an adorable sign, Nancy. I love signs, and this one is really over the top cute.
🙂
This was a fun challenge. Here’s my entry. https://alwayswrite.blog/2022/03/19/how-do-you-make-green-coffee/
Interesting.
Love the narration
Thanks.
And it will always generate the memory of going to your grandmas. I like that. Donna
Me, too!
Here’s mine this week- with a story behind it!