Signs of Past Times

This "ghost" sign is on the Park Avenue building that was once a Courier News bureau, then Thomas Furniture, then Atkol. The sign at the lower center had two rods holding it to the building, but one came loose. I told Emergency Management Official Sheldon Green about it. My neighbor said it was gone when she went by last week. The large old sign could have done significant damage to people or property if it had fallen onto Park Avenue.

This sign is gone now following a partial collapse that led Green and others to order its emergency removal. It was that incident that made me take a look at the Thomas sign. I wonder how many other obsolete signs are hanging over city streets?

--Bernice Paglia