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MUSEUM NEWS
It's fate uncertain for a while, Ithaca icon and designated historic landmark, Johnny's Big Red Grill sign, finds a home at the Museum.
If we can make it there.... New York Times article generates a lot of interest in the Museum.
January 26, 2009: Jim Stengel, former Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble addresses the 2nd annual Google TV Ads Summit remotely from the American Sign Museum.
February 25, 2008: American Sign Museum is featured in USA Today.
February 22, 2009: Columnist Mike Harden, Columbus Dispatch, interviews Sign Museum founder Tod Swormstedt
February 18, 2009: Sign Museum friend and Cincinnati Enquirer staff writer, Cliff Radel, helps to keep the Museum in the public eye
February 7, 2007: Good Ol' Fashioned Barn Razin' brings Mail Pouch wall to the American Sign Museum.
August 6, 2008: RoadsideAmerica.com visits the American Sign Museum
April 23, 2008: Huntsville (Alabama) Times - McDonald's Sign Moving to Ohio
April 3 2008: The American Sign Museum is featured in Antique Trader
March 21, 2008: The American Sign Museum is featured in LA Times
February 23, 2008: American Sign Museum AP article featured in several newspapers and on several websites, including USA Today
February 21, 2008: ASM to receive Bernie's Army-Navy store sign
October 2007: American Sign Museum closes on new property [move-in time frame extended to 2009]
2005: American Sign Museum featured in Weird Ohio book
06/01/05: Grand Opening
The American Sign Museum officially opened its doors on April 28.
01/17/05: American Sign Museum Opens to the Public
Museum to have its grand opening in April 2005, but sign afficionados are already knocking on his door.
11/15/04: All signs point to Cincinnati
A nonprofit museum keeps the illuminated relics from fading away. One artful example was rescued from a California field.
From the Los Angeles Times
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PRESERVATION NEWS
Austinites save another icon, albeit a car wash sign
Genie's owner says his sign of the times not going anywhere
January 14, 2010: Orlando Magazine sheds some 'light' on sign preservation efforts in the Orlando area.
Standee's last stand: Beloved diner closes, but it's sign lives on
Bright lights, old city: Remembering Vancouver's neon glory
Signage from western Kentucky inn selling on eBay - Some pieces of what's left of the Executive Inn Rivermont in Owensboro are for sale on eBay.
The iconic neon sign located in front of Goal Post Bar-B-Q on Quintard Avenue in Anniston is back on and in the process of being restored to full working condition
Artistic Tucson - Magic Carpet Icon Is Saved! On Monday, October 5, the neon sign from the closed Magic Carpet Golf property on Speedway was removed and transported to storage.
Vintage neon signs to be displayed in Vegas -
17 restored signs will adorn stretch of downtown’s boulevard
Original neon signs from two well-known Virginia retailers have been restored to original working condition and are on display at the Valentine Richmond History Center.
August 26, 2009: Anniston, Alabama icon waits for repairs. Anniston Star article on damaged Goal Post Bar-B-Q sign references museum founder, Tod Swormstedt.
Restoring a marquee’s glow - At the Palace in Hamburg, sign is revived, and there’s hope for lights
Indiana's 'EAT' sign going back on display - Robert Indiana's "LOVE" icon is everywhere, but the artist himself lives as a recluse in a Maine fishing village.
April 24, 2009:Leveled building uncovers circa 1950 ad - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
April 21, 2009: After 50-year run, sign will be gone in a flash when Sigel's liquor store closes
March 16, 2009: New York Times – Fate of Seattle’s iconic “Globe” up in the air as newspaper’s era ends
March 16, 2009: Schenectady, NY Daily Gazette – Diner sign in storage for 30 years finds new home
11/08/07: An Eerie Portent in Light, 15 Years Before 9/11
Two bright, white parallel columns soar from the dark canyons of Lower Manhattan
By David W. Dunlap, The New York Times
8/11/07: 'Sputnik' Returns
Distinct Sign Spins and Glows After Restoration
By Lorrie Delk Walker, TheLedger.com
5/26/07: Route 66 motels an endangered species
The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care.
By Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press Writer
5/21/07: Heinz ketchup bottle sign moving from North Side
The lighted sign is looking for a new home.
By Teresa F. Lindeman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mark Oatis Repaints Wall Sign
Revealed during a housing rehab project in Pueblo, Colorado.
NEW Hand Lettering Forum
Just in case you haven't seen it yet, the old Hand Lettering Forum is now the NEW Hand Lettering Forum at:
www.handletteringforum.com/forum/
3,200 Apartments to Be Built In Glow of Giant Pepsi Sign
Pepsi-Cola is the spot.
By David W. Dunlap, The New York Times
Restoring Route 66
Nine landmark neon signs restored on New Mexico's stretch of Route 66.
By Anya Rao, Signs of the Times magazine
Neon's illuminating stories find a home
Signs of life in Seattle.
By Wyatt Buchanan, Seattle Post Intelligencer Reporter
'Up'-ended
A 1940s landmark Hollywood District soda sign goes the way of all fizz.
From the Portland Tribune
Let's everybody drink to historic preservation
The National Liquor Bar, Milwaukee's endangered landmark.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online
Zippy Duty
Zippy the Pinhead cartoonist, Bill Griffith, takes doggie-head sign to heart.
From metroACTIVE.com
Courtesy Chevrolet
A sign unrivaled by any other sign in the San Jose county.
From metroACTIVE.com
Strokes Of Genius
Long before graffiti, brick buildings were a palette for sign painters. Today, they're an endangered species.
From metroACTIVE.com, by Genevieve Roja
Sign Language
What Signs say about our lives, and why action is needed to save the valley's scarce reminders of its commercial past.
From metroACTIVE.com, by Dan Pulcrano
Places: Passing White Towers on road trip through time
What little group, in its first 25 years, has raised America's consciousness about its fun and funky roadside buildings — and had a lot of fun along the way? Answer: The Society for Commercial Archaeology.
From post-gazette.com, by Patricia Lowry
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Blue-Collar Riviera, A Conflict Over Identity
It started as a run-of-the-mill municipal brouhaha over the commercial signs that festoon this city, inviting tourists to play miniature golf in a
plastic jungle, buy alligator heads and shark teeth, and stuff their faces with deep-fried shrimp. But now it is nothing less than a battle for the soul of Myrtle Beach.
From NYTimes.com, By Sarah Kershaw
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