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Seattle Post Intelligencer

Photos: Wonder Bread Sign Returned to Central District »

The factory was torn down two years ago, the historic home of Wonder Bread since 1916 torn down for a six-story unit apartment development adjacent to Pratt Park... Read More »

Puget Sound Business Journal

Wonder Bread Sign Lifted Back into Place »

July, 2009 - Legacy Residential has returned the 16-foot-tall neon Wonder Bread sign to its original location on top of the Legacy at Pratt Park Apartments... Read More »

Central District News

Wonderbread Sign Back at Home on Jackson »

July, 2009 - This afternoon construction crews hoisted the old Wonder Bread sign up onto the top of the new apartment building at 18th & Jackson. It's back on the site where it sat for 54 years on top of a 1916-era bakery... Read More »

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Wonder Bread Sign Rises to Rooftop Again »

October, 2007 - When the developer of a new apartment building at the former Wonder Bread factory site announced Monday that he planned to return the 16-foot neon Wonder Bread sign to the top of the building, Adrienne Bailey thought of the warm smell of baking bread.... Read More »

Atlantic Monthly

Signs of the Times »

September, 2006 - Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami... Read More »

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Seattle Neon Artists Aim to Create a Buzz with Their Wine-Jug Furnishings »

July 27, 2006 - Wine snobs turn their noses up at it. Your gramps loved it. When you were young and broke and looking for a cheap buzz, you might have knocked back a bottle or two yourself. Ah, yes. Carlo Rossi's wine in a jug. What can we say about it? Well, it's certainly affordable (as in $10.99 for a 4-liter jug)... Read More »

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Sound Transit has Eye on Broadway Property »

October 28, 2005 - Sound Transit wants to negotiate to buy or condemn a former restaurant and parking lot property on Broadway, which the agency plans to use for staging to build its light rail line from downtown to Husky Stadium. The property at 1821 and 1827 Broadway on Capitol Hill is owned by Cheryl Tinder and was formerly occupied by Chang's Mongolian Grill... Read More »

Seattle Times

City Lights: Two Men Pursue Their Passion to Save Seattle's Neon »

Februrary 26, 2004 - By day, they can look almost invisible, colorlessly blending into the side of an upholstery store, a hotel rooftop, a funeral chapel, a neighborhood dive. But as soon as the sun goes down -- and the lights go up -- they come alive, beckoning to all with a thousand and one seductive messages: Hot Coffee... Read More »

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Neon's Illuminating Stories Find a Home »

October 11, 2003 - It seems strange, but a nicotine-encrusted mural, accented by filthy neon tubing, is a museum-worthy artifact. A crew plucked the hefty metal fixture off a wall in a seedy downtown restaurant and bar recently and hauled it to a warehouse in South Seattle, where it awaits restoration. The wall hanging, which depicts two prizefighters slugging it... Read More »

Seattle Post Intelligencer

If You'd Like Your Land to be Never Bland, Then Let the Neon Sign be King »

September 3, 2001 - If the mountains and the Sound are the dominating features of the daytime landscape, then these are the landmarks of Seattle's nighttime scenery: The giant "City Light" letters on the utility's South Seattle maintenance yard. The Bardahl sign at the north end of the Ballard Bridge. The Elephant car wash sign. The grocery store with the letters... Read More »

Seattle Times

Heralding the New Seattle »

October 1, 2000 - Take a close look at one of Seattle's last bastions of blue collar. Today's Georgetown, South Park or Sodo could be tomorrow's Fremont. Sound bizarre? Ten years ago, who'd have pegged Belltown as Seattle's next condo-cafe capital? Today, the Duwamish - ringed by downtown, I-5, Tukwila and its namesake river - still looks much like a graying... Read More »

Seattle Times

Neon On Ice -- Glass Artist Dale Chihuly Finds Tacoma Dome The Perfect Venue For His Neon Sculptures »

September 2, 1993 - Yesterday, Dale Chihuly unveiled neon art on ice at the Dome, and it's a love-in. Businessmen are carrying in their lunches to see it. Docents from the Tacoma Art Museum are showing visitors through the free show 2-10 p.m. today, and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow. By the end of that time, only slivers of ice and neon tubing are apt to be left glinting from the ice rink... Read More »