![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are clearing out old stuff and they don’t want to throw it out. These signs, like many in the museum’s care, are donated by family members. Recent signs rescued, Vedros detailed, include one for Turner’s Bicycle Shop that was in Mission and the Stan’s Hardware sign in Kansas City, Kansas. Startland News Historic photo of the Kansas City Downtown Airport wordmark sign as it was originally placed. “I really can’t wait for that day - when enough of them are put on display and I’m completely rested - I can go down there and have a beer, walk through, and then marvel at what we did. “There’ll definitely be a sense of relief,” Vedros explained of finally having a place to display the signs. Pennway Point - which will span six acres of the former Carter-Waters industrial site at the intersection of Pershing and Pennway - will be the first home for all of the signs, he said. Sometimes you can find somebody who’s done a really cool sign, but it’s few and far between.” I don’t like the direction that I’ve seen happen in the last number of years with most LED. “We have signs from the 1930s, the ’40s, the ’50s, and ’60s. “These are the authentic signs,” Vedros noted. To date, the entirely-volunteer-led nonprofit has saved more than 75 signs from the scrap heap and restored 40. The museum behind the effort was born in 2017 after Vedros - a photographer - rescued the 1946 Crick Camera Shop neon sign and wanted a place to display it where others could also enjoy the nostalgia. Lumi Neon Museum Lighting of the Katz Drugstore sign at Fossil Forge on Friday, Augin Lee’s Summit, Missouri. ![]()
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