This sign in Garden City, ID is gone now. The property was remodeled for the Arcadia Hotel and there’s no pole sign there are all now.

This sign and the Bellingham Auto Sales building in Bellingham, MA are gone now. The property is being developed for an office complex:

The Care Cleaners letters in Chelmsford, MA…:

… are now laying flat on the roof. I don’t know if they will be stood back up again. I found a recent real estate listing posted in December. So, it looks like this may be permanent and not the result of a storm or some such:

A little bit of good news – this store in Springfield, MA moved to Chicopee, MA in 2020:

and the sign was moved to the side of the building there. The letters still have neon!

The Owl Shop in Worcester, MA closed in 2022. This sign is gone now. It was supposed to be installed at a new location in New Hampshire in 2023 but that hasn’t happened and there has been no announcement of even what city the store will be in:

Sun Furniture in Shreveport, LA closed in 2018. In 2022, the sign was removed to be adapted for SporTran City. Note the neon tubing of a sun on top of the “SUN” letters:

Sure enough, last spring, the sign was reinstalled with backlit plastic letters and LED borders. Sigh…:

This sign at a long-closed business in New Orleans, LA is gone now:

This sign in Fort Wayne, IN is gone now. There was a fire in 2020 and the building was demolished in 2022:

This Masonic Lodge sign in Shoals, IN appears to be gone now:

This sign in Great Falls, MT is gone now. The motel was demolished in 2022 and there’s now a Chipotle on the property.

This sign in Shelby, MT is gone now – empty storefront:

This sign in Shelby, MT…

… has been turned into a Welcome sign for the city. All the neon is now plastic. Ugh, not a fan.

The Recreation Center building and remaining letters in The Dalles, OR are gone now:

New boring storefronts going in there now – StreetView from August:

More news from The Dalles: the Oregon Motor Motel is being developed as The Annex as a shelter and for transitional housing. These two signs are gone now in the August StreetView:

I’m hoping the National Neon Sign Museum in The Dalles got the signs:

I did find a photo from a news article in October which shows the adapted plastic “MOTEL” sign with the other two signs below gone:

I’m assuming these two signs around the corners of this building are also gone – the Google car hasn’t gone there yet:

That’s enough for one post. With a 3-day weekend ahead, I’m going to try to wrap up this section but there are 13 states to go (132 pages). So, we shall see.

Happy trails,
dj & the dogs

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