I love this sign and it’s sad that I — fuck I just missed a turn — can’t get a better photo of it. The angle I pass it during daylight is not any good. If I start using my pop’s Nikon, I’ll have to stop and try to snag a better photo. I like it because (1) it looks like an extended top and (2) it’s obviously a relic of a day when this area wasn’t so ghetto and in a way it’s a symbol of how sleazy the ’square’ is now. Within the Square, there is a $1 theater that shows movies no longer in decent theaters, and I love it because you walk inside and it’s like plunging into some horrid hybrid of all the worst parts of the 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s. Every surface is curved and covered in garishly colored fabric and lined with recessed lights, and you can almost sense that the place would look better if it was filled with cigarette smoke. The place is dirty, but comfortable to the point that you have to wonder if it’s not really dirty at all, that perhaps it was meant to look that way. The sign kind of sums that up for me, it looks nice enough in a crappy sort of way, but you know it couldn’t have been cheap at the time it was erected.
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