a showing for RATTLETRAP :-) :-) :-)

I've been meaning to snap a pic or three of these for a long time, given the continually amazing variety of wonderfully huge and heavy signs and things that CW member RATTLETRAP rescues during his travels then shows us from his LAKESIDE STORAGE MUSEUM in Utah. [if only Provo wasn't so far from me, or I'd be a regular visitor there!] They are not mine sadly, but located at a nearby business where they've been re-purposed for many decades. The building there also retains most of its former distinctive service station shape/awning roof, though has been heavily modified and enlarged.

There are two old signs here, first two pics are one with a double sided solid panel display that has been painted over -- so many years ago that the repaint has mostly worn off and disappeared leaving about zero doubt what it *used* to be. Pics 3 & 4 are the other sign, the same size and shape but originally an illuminated sign with plastic (?) panels that don't show any former design. Interestingly, it kinda looks like the poles themselves could have been made by different companies, since their nameplates (which I'd never noticed were there until these pics) are not the same shape under their layers and layers of paint.

I've actually been watching these for more than a couple decades myself hoping that they wouldn't just "disappear" some random day for any odd manner of "new" ugly modern blinkie-lights. (as if nothing else, I'd LOVE to have the solid one in *my own* backyard, instead?!!) They haven't -- and a conversation I had with the friendly store manager when taking these pics (we know each other, I used to spend *bunches* of money there on a way too regular basis) would suggest they aren't planned to go anywhere else anytime soon. Apparently I'm nowhere *near* the first person that's ever asked about these signs, and the actual property owner (whoever that is) is also apparently *well aware* of what he's got stuck to the ground on his streetcorner on S. University Ave . . . oh well, I prolly couldn't afford 'em anyway, and lawwdy knows I don't gots the equipment/manpower to do anything with 'em even if they were 'free for the taking'. <groan>

If anybody ever DOES manage to find a way to make them go somewhere else I TRULY hope it doesn't end up being a case of "death by traffic accident" -- it is a very busy streetcorner they live on -- but then again, they'd likely survive any such incident better than any *other* pole or post that sticks up outta the pavement anywhere nearby...?? <lol>