Day 25: Indiana Continues

Let’s start with this banana split boat in Anderson at the Uranus Fudge Factory:

… and this astronaut at the same place:

These flying moose statues are the mascots for Manac trailers. This one is in Lebanon:

This Pirate Cat Memorial is a tribute to a departed, community cat in Indianapolis:

A giant trowel at a former Habig garden store in Indianapolis — repainted for an event venue :

I believe this building in Indianapolis was originally a Buick dealership and then later became an A&P grocery store:

This building is in Anderson. It may have been used as an employment agency originally:

A restored former Pure Oil gas station in Indianapolis:

This former Phillips 66 in Indianapolis was deemed historic — so it was remodeled by putting a giant canopy right over the existing “batwing” canopy:

This former White Castle #3 in Indianapolis from 1927. It’s been vacant since at least 2019:

The Vogue Theatre in Indianapolis:

The Lebanon Armory in Lebanon:

The still-operating Frisch’s Big Boy in Anderson:

Originally, the Anderson House of Stone in Anderson. It became the House of Reagin in 1959:

This sign in Indianapolis is from around 2009:

This scaffold sign in Whitestown was built in 1958. The auto salvage business closed around 2004. In 2018, a new development was scheduled to take place with a hotel, apartments, “Wrecks Park,” and restoration of this sign. But those plans fell through.

This scaffold sign in Indianapolis is one of a pair of rooftop signs (one facing north, one facing south). There were originally “Hotel” letters on the right of both signs which were probably removed around 1983 when the building became apartments:

This 50-foot-tall Nesquik bunny sign was installed in Anderson in 2008 next to the Nestle plant on I-69:

This Buster Brown Shoes sign in Yorktown is part of a private collection installed in front of a residence. I don’t know where this sign came originally. The top appears to read “Shu Stop.” The bottom paint was readable as “X-Ray Fitting” a few years ago but I don’t know if that was the original wording:

This sign in Lafayette was built around 1963. Around 2022, the dealership moved, restored this sign, and installed it at the new location:

Syd’s Bar in Noblesville opened in 1945. This sign was probably installed in the 1950s:

The Toast Cafe in Anderson opened in 1954. Around 2018, this sign was “updated” by removing the neon and installing LED tubing. Here’s a 2010 photo that I took before that happened:

… and now. Note the crappy, wiggly lines of the LED on top (bordering and filling the letters) and on the bottom:

These signs on the Franklin Square Theatre building in Indianapolis were installed around 1994 when the building was developed for multiple businesses. I don’t know where the “Restaurant” sign came from but the “Bowling” sign was supposedly installed originally in Springfield, OH: