Lots more devastation I’m afraid. But, hang in there, there’s some happier news at the bottom of this post.

This sign in Oklahoma City, OK is gone now…:

… but the letters on the building remain:

This sign in Oklahoma City, OK...:

… no longer has neon and the text has been changed to this:

This sign in Greenville, OH...

… is gone now — replaced with this:

… but at least this sign remains on the front of the building:

I knew the former Jerry’s Drive-in sign, later Tee Jaye’s, in Columbus, OH…

… was being adapted last year for a Chick-Fil-A. But I wasn’t prepared for the LED rope treatment of the arrow — what a mess:

This Walgreens in Phoenix, AZ has closed and these neon signs are gone. The building remains:

This sign in Colorado Springs, CO is gone now:

This sign in Colorado Springs, CO…:

… has been adapted for a barber shop:

This sign in Cotopaxi, CO is gone now:

Although the Bonnie Brae Tavern letters in Denver, CO were supposedly going to be displayed on the new building, I don’t see them on the recent renderings. So, these may be gone for good:

This sign in Raton, NM…:

… looks like this now:

This sign in Roy, NM is gone now:

This sign in Albuquerque, NM has been through a lot. The motel was built in 1950 as the Loma Verde Court with a smaller pole sign:

In the early 1960s, it was renamed the Loma Verde Motel and this sign must have been installed then. It originally looked like the postcard image below. I assume that the poles connecting the top and bottom panels had neon:

The sign was painted a cheerful green by 2007. Here’s my photo from 2012:

By 2021, it had a really shabby paint job:

What a surprise though at the Google StreetView from last month! It was repainted and neon added. I don’t know why they didn’t stick with the capital letters on the top like the original sign. And why they added a trellis grid to the poles and the neon on that…

… The neon on the trellis is apparently some sort of flowering cactus? This rendering appears in a couple of restoration pending articles for several ABQ signs:

And some other good news from Albuquerque. The Dog House now has a new pole sign. It was previously just a plastic panel sign but now there’s neon and a wagging tail like the sign on the building:

There was actually a similar neon sign there previously but it didn’t have a wagging tail. John Margolies shot this one in 1979:

Five more states to go but those have the most pages (about 150): Nevada, Missouri, Illinois, Texas, and California. So, I’ll be back soon enough with another heartbreaking post from some of them.

Happy Trails,
dj & the dogs

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