The killer heat continued — but with blue skies & sun, I really didn’t mind it.  Let’s start with a couple of signs from Everett.  This one is located at Everett Used Cars:

The nicely weathered Everett Motel sign:

From Anacortes:

I’m puzzled by this neon sign in Marysville.  Is that a hand holding something which is creating sparks or what?  I don’t know if this sign is associated with the Widow Maker Custom Motorcycle Fabricating business or not:

From Oak Harbor — this sign still had neon tubing in 2012:
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That’s cheap LED tubing on the sign now.  They didn’t bother adding it to the arrow:

This sign is at Mom’s Cafe in Burlington.  Mom’s is closed now — let’s pray this backlit plastic monkey is adopted by the next tenant:

It looks like “Some Place” under “Mom’s” but there must have been another name before that:

From Bellingham which is far, far from any real palm trees:

From Lynden:

After a lengthy and thorough search of my van by border personnel, some interrogation and overly personal questions, trauma to the dogs (being locked in a crate in 100 degree temps), we arrived in Canada — a little later than planned.  The light was already waning — so, here’s the best I could do for the incredible Rickshaw sign in Surrey:

This one is in New Westminster:

Until just a few years ago, there were lots of old Safeway signs in Canada.  Now, it’s down to a handful.  This one’s in Coquitlam:

Two more posts from this trip to go!

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