Website Updates: More Signs (part 5)

Let’s wrap up Oregon with some Portland news. This sign’s charming corrugated plastic panels…:

… have been replaced with new panels for a boxing gym:

The Waddle’s Coffee Shop sign has been through countless iterations. From the 1950s, before I-5 was built:

From after I-5 was built is when the clock first appears:

And into present day history – my photo from 2015:

And now, StreetView from June:

It’s been a tough year for signs in Wisconsin. This Standard Oil sign at a bar in Ashland, WI had been updated at some point with neon reading “GAS”:

Recently, a plastic letter panel was placed on the sign:

This sign in Friendship, WI is gone now:

This sign in Hayward, WI…:

… has been replaced with this:

This cutie in Iron Belt, WI…:

… has been replaced with this boring thing:

I love it when the Google StreetCar actually catches something good happening — in September, the Cozy Inn sign in Janesville, WI was being restored:

This sign and the building where the bar was in Madison, WI are gone now:

This sign and the store in Stevens Point, WI are gone now:

I believe this was originally a Chevrolet OK Used Cars sign like this one:

This sign in Superior, WI…:

… is gone now:

This restaurant closed in 2016 and this sign in Washburn, WI is gone now:

The Lookout Mountain Tourist Lodge in Chattanooga, TN was demolished in June. I don’t know if this sign was saved:

Here’s what the sign looked like in 1980 when John Margolies shot it:

This store in East Ridge, TN had been closed since at least 2009. The plastic panel was gone for years but now the neon piece with the shirts is also gone. There are new plastic panels for a vape shop there now:

The cool mid-century modern building behind this sign in Knoxville, TN has been demolished. This sign will likely be adapted for the new apartments that are being built at the site: