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February 23, 2011 08:02 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9dlKG3_mG0I/cherised-coca-cola-g.html
Cherished Coca-Cola "ghost sign" must go, say Frisco bureaucrats
Todd Lappin says: "Instead of complaining about advertising, San Francisco's progressive Bernal Heights neighborhood is rallying to save a vintage Coca-Cola "ghost sign" from the 1940s. City bureaucrats have declared it an "illegal" sign, and they are threatening the homeowner -- who lovingly restored the old sign at the request of his neighbors -- with fines if the mural is not removed. Most neighbors say the mural is not a billboard at all; they view it as a cherished link to the lost history of the neighborhood. (The building itself used to be a corner store.) Now the fight is on to document the history of the vintage mural and keep the bureaucrats at bay. Rhetorical question: Why does the San Francisco Planning Department hate Americana so much?" Todd's been covering the story in Bernalwood, a neighborhood blog he created late last year....
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