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I am not familiar either, but I love the signage!
I’m not familiar with this chain but I think I like them.
I am not familiar either, but I love the signage!
I’m not familiar with this chain but I think I like them.
Chains, wires, and all the metal rigging make a sign in my opinion. Its the little things, you know? Its just somehow better.Good image of a champagne coupe - love the bubbles (but probably need to be farther away than the camera was to get a better bubble effect).
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N.B. Love all the rigging used to support the sign. It's an old-fashioned way to solve a problem - throw more metal at it; today, they'd design the support requirements on a computer (programed to the exact need) and build with hidden light weight material. That all makes sense, but still a "hey, Hank, attach a few more chains to it (and make sure you screw 'em into the building real good) as we don't want the sign falling down on someone's head" approach has it's FL appeal.
Super cool!Didn't fully appreciate it until I saw it lit up and moving:
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My vision is so bad these days that at first glance that ice cream soda looked to me like a can-can dancer bent over so all you saw was her fluffy-skirted backside and her legs, and I found myself wondering exactly what kind of a restaurant that was.
That's the sign for the Elliston Place Soda Shop - Nashville, TN. About a mile from my office... A local landmark - famous for cheeseburgers, sodas, and desserts.The ice-cream soda design is fantastic (awesome cherry):
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Also, very Hemingwayesque prose: "Food, soda, air conditioned, restaurant." A few more words and you'd have one of his shorter, short stories.
My vision is so bad these days that at first glance that ice cream soda looked to me like a can-can dancer bent over so all you saw was her fluffy-skirted backside and her legs, and I found myself wondering exactly what kind of a restaurant that was.
That sounds all too familiar.The reveal here might be less about the restaurant and more about Lizzie.
That said, my reading vision is so bad, that my girlfriend - if she wants to show me something up-close - also knows to brings me my reading glasses as otherwise, as she says, "you won't see a thing."
That said, my reading vision is so bad, that my girlfriend - if she wants to show me something up-close - also knows to brings me my reading glasses as otherwise, as she says, "you won't see a thing."