Ouch

Next door to Lamp Post Liquors was this, er, distinctively-shaped sign pointing into the parking lot. 

While it outlived the Lamp Post, it, too, met a rather ungracious end in early 2007. Luckily some attentive folks were on the scene that day. I was preparing the spring open studio program and my phone was ringing off the hook, more or less, due to other things going on nearby that will have to wait for another post.

But I have these photos handy, so this is the story du jour. A few more phone calls, some borrowing of trucks, and an exchange of cash later, these remains of the parking lot signs ended up in the back yard of my studio.

Which brings me to my point. If by some miracle you have found this blog in the first few hours of its existence, you can come by my studio, 21 W 5th St, on Sunday, December 7, 2008 during the Art Excursion, a mini studio tour, from 11am until 5pm, and see it for yourself.

Lamp Post Liquors

So a couple of years ago I was driving up Oracle Road, and the tiny drive-thru Lamp Post Liquors building was being demolished. While the excavator was clawing away with its shovel, a guy was hosing down the rubble to keep the dust down. A valiant but futile effort in Tucson, keeping down dust...

So I pulled my car onto the side street and asked the fellow with the hose if the sign was coming down, too.

"Oh, no... it's historic" said he, and I departed somewhat hopeful, but not entirely optimistic, about the fate of the sign.

Needless to say, the next time I went by, there was no sign of where the little building had been. And no sign of the sign, either.

Another one bites the Tucson dust, despite the guy with the hose.