Day 8: St. Joseph and More

The Missouri marathon continues! This former International House of Pancakes is in Kansas City (now a Mexican restaurant):

This modern sign in North Kansas City advertises for the Mop Bucket cleaning supplies store:

Another sign in North Kansas City. The store is closed and this sign might not be around much longer:

An 18-wheeler is installed on former Phillips 66 gas station supports in Faucett:

This Penguin Park kangaroo mom & baby in Kansas City were built in 1965:

A couple of giant bulls. This former Sirloin Stockade restaurant statue/sign now advertises for a meat market in Savannah:

This one in Kansas City is at the American International Charolais Association headquarters:

This Ray’s Dairy Diner sign in Fairfax originally advertised for a Dairy Queen:

Here are a few signs from St. Joseph. An arrow with electric light bulbs was originally installed above the Hi-Ho bar sign. By 2018, it had been replaced with this LED version:

This sign was installed at a different location a few blocks away and moved here along with the business when the building was converted to lofts. I assume that it originally had neon:

This Reddy Kilowatt sign came from Mound City and is now at the Patee House Museum. It’s in a really bad spot where you can only shoot from this angle and you have to push a button and run over to get close in about 2 seconds before the neon turns off. More about Reddy signs at my website here:

https://www.roadarch.com/sca/reddy.html

This Hy-Vee grocery store sign is in Tarkio. I think the only other one left is in Leon, IA. I wish they hadn’t painted over the blue background with beige paint:

This former Safeway sign is in Excelsior Springs:

Let’s close out with a few more things from Excelsior Springs. Ray’s Diner:

The Dari-B Drive-in opened in 1954 as the Dari-O Drive-in. The sign’s “O” was swapped for the “B”:

The Elms Hotel:

The Oaks Hotel was built as the Snapp Hotel. The name was changed around 1946 and this sign is probably from then. The building is now used for the Oaks Apartments: