Signs of Tucson

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

I took these pictures last year, never got around to uploading them until now.

Wilmont Plaza has been here since before I moved to Tucson (in 1990).

This is what remains of Popular outdoor outfitters. It abruptly closed down one day never to reopen. This store front has since been renovated.

I went to a hackathon on Saturday that was downtown.

I had to give a presentation with Tucson Embedded, they're near the airport, and I found some really interesting signs near there.

Found this car wash right beside a Circle K, where I got some gum.

This hotel was on a lonely stretch of road along the Benson Highway.

This derelict sign is a edifice of our consumerist, post-modern, culture.

Took some pictures of signs near the South side of Tucson.

Although you can't see it, this sign used to say "mobile service station."

The letters didn't fall off as they did melt on.

This sign used to say, "Old Spanish Trail," but the only part that remains is trail.

Here is my long anticipated post of Motels of Miracle Mile

It appears that they did a lot of renovation at the Ghost Ranch, unfortunately, it seems to have lost much of its soul.

Even though this wasn't a motel per-se, it was in the same strip and had many of the stylistic conventions of the other signs along Miracle Mile.

After I cleared out my apartment, I went along some streets to take some signs from Euclid to Miracle Mile.

It's a big round poka-dotted sign.

I see commercials for the place all the time.

This was a sign for a "food store"

Coming soon: an up coming blog post about the motels of Miracle Mile.

Rode my bike down Campbell a few days ago

Could not resist taking a picture of this sign. It's a little dark because I took this early in the morning.