What is your favorite Jacksonville sign?

[I-10east]

^^^Thanks Timkin.

[ben says]

They aren't necessarily my favorites, but I love the following:

Midnight Sun (reminds me of a store you'd find in Haight-Ashbury)

Kostas (retro)

Oak on Laundry (if they alter the facade of that building during reconstruction, I'll be pissed)

Maxwell

Peninsular

Brunet-Garcia (maybe I'm mistaken..it's on Hendricks, and it's a huge blowup of a face)

[Adam W]

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[BackinJax05]

The KK in Gainesville has the same sign but doesn't have a drive thur. And I can't believe I forgot about the old 666 sign that was a true classic darn!

G-ville also has that nostalgic Arby's sign, there's something about the charm of an old school sign.

I vaguely remember the 666 sign; Does anyone have a pic of it by chance?

The Monticello Drug Company building ( aka the 666 Building)



The old Downtown Sears

I loved the old Hotel Mayflower sign. It was almost 3 stories tall. At least it looked that big on the ground after the building was thoughtlessly imploded.

[KenFSU]

Kind of an easy answer, but I'm still a sucker for the Jacksonville Landing sign.



The Carling and 11E, as well.

[fsujax]

I like the Carling sign, 11E and the big I think it's a 7-Up can (used to be Canada Dry ginger ale) along I-95 near Bowden.

[finehoe]

The long gone Thunderbird sign that was off of Arlington Expressway

Agree.

[fsujax]

what about the old Firestone sign that used to be in Lavilla. I remember seeing that as I child. Anyone have a pic to post?

[RiversideLoki]

The long gone Thunderbird sign that was off of Arlington Expressway

Agree.

I just nostalgia'd all over the place. The Thunderbird is my first memory of Jacksonville from when I was 8. We moved down from South Carolina and into Sin City. And our first few nights in town were spent there. And now I'm 33.. eeeuuufffff!

[Mike D]

These are great, especially the downtown hotels, the Thunderbird and the 666 building.  When I was a kid I thought the Thunderbird looked about as high class as a joint could be...and I think it was, in fact, a pretty nice place.  Fancy motels like that were what eventually put the downtown hotels out of business.  And then later, the years were not kind to the Thunderbird and its brethren either!  Speaking of downtown, how I miss those stacked neon signs on the top of the Mayflower, the George Washington, the Seminole, the Floridan, etc.  I also vividly remember the flashing neon of the "666" building as you came across the old Acosta bridge. The bridge was narrow...only three lanes wide...and the giant neon sign seemed to loom over you as you reached the downtown side of the river. The numbers flashed on one at a time, then the "for colds relief" part lit up.  Can you imagine an illuminated "666" over downtown these days?  Talk about people flipping out!!  Maybe people weren't taking every single verse of the Bible quite as literally in those days  I also remember, on the other side of the bridge from the 666 building, there was a big illuminated billboard for the Seaboard Air Line railroad.  I can remember asking my dad why they called a railroad an "airline".  After I graduated from UF, my career took me all over the country and there were periods of time when I wasn't in Jax except for once or twice a year.  Seems like I came home one day for a visit and realized all of those places had been torn down!!  Even the Acosta bridge!  Yipes!  It still takes my breath away.

[If_I_Loved_you]

The long gone Thunderbird sign that was off of Arlington Expressway

Agree.

Just think if the Thunderbird was still around as a working motel wow that would be sweet. And a couple of old Holiday Inn signs to boot life would be so much sweeter.

[Timkin]

Wasn't the Thunderbird the Complex that is still located on the Arlington Expressway that is Sitting vacant ?  Can't think of the name of the place now but it has been unused at least a decade? (was also a Holiday Inn at one time? )  or am I mistaken?

[Charles Hunter]

Wasn't the Thunderbird the Complex that is still located on the Arlington Expressway that is Sitting vacant ?  Can't think of the name of the place now but it has been unused at least a decade? (was also a Holiday Inn at one time? )  or am I mistaken?

Bethelite Ministries - don't know that I've ever seen any activity there, though.

[If_I_Loved_you]

I miss seeing these old signs around.

[blizz01]

I suppose this one matters - I'm also partial to Ying's Chinee Takee Outee......