Let’s start with this “Mel” at the Mellow Mushroom in downtown Chattanooga. The chain has lots of characters and statues built from gears and recycled materials all over the country:
One of several “High Four” Great Dane sculptures in various cities — this one in Chattanooga:
This guy is at a former Piggly Wiggly supermarket (now hardware store) in Erin:
Giant strawberries in Portland:
The Lafayette Cinema in Lafayette:
The Capitol Theatre in Springfield:
A former Pure Oil gas station in Lebanon:
The Macon Bank & Trust Co. in Lafayette:
A long-closed Howard Johnson’s copycat building in New Johnsonville:
A “skinnny M” sign in Clarksville:
This bowling alley is in New Johnsonville:
This sign is in Lebanon:
This drug store in Gallatin was once part of the Walgreen Agency (middle panel covered up but the W and Y still visible under the tacked on panel):
The Chattanooga Choo-Choo rooftop sign:
This sign is in Clarksville. No, it was never a Holiday Inn but just one of hundreds of copycat signs:
The Palace Theatre in Gallatin:
A couple of signs inside the Coker Museum at Honest Charley Speed Shop in Chattanooga:
Three of my four travel buddies riding shotgun and keeping an eye out for trouble (other dogs, squirrels, people acting strangely). Left to right: Orbit, Pivot, and Dilly.
More Tennessee to come.
Happy Trails,
dj & the dogs
Tennessee has some cool signs.