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IGA Pan Plastic Sign

Single-faced pan plastic, internally illuminated.

(See also 2016.0010.0001)

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IGA Pan Plastic Sign

Single-faced pan plastic, internally illuminated sign.

(See also 2016.0010.0002)

Adam’s Hats Painted Reverse Glass & Lightbulb Signs

Reverse glass painted sign is backlit with lightbulbs and housed in a painted metal frame, for Adam’s Hats Co.

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Fiberglass Bowling Pin

Three-dimensional fiberglass bowling pin is painted and has steel plate at bottom for mounting. Often referred to as Pinhead.  The bowling pin originally identified Greenbook Lanes in Greenbrook, NJ in the late 1950’s.  The owner sold that lanes and opened another bowling alley in Manville, NJ.

Elias Brothers Rotating Big Boy

The Elias Brothers version of the iconic Big Boy fiberglass three-dimensional figure is mounted on a steel base and originally rotated.

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Old Dixie Chicken Double-Faced Figural Sign

Doublefaced chicken figural sign is painted sheetmetal with chasing lights.  Sign is one section of athree-section pylon sign, which included a internall illuminated cabinet with plastic faces.  Museum also has the two plastic faces reading, “Old Dixie Fried Chicken.”

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Tri-Panel Revolving Point-of-Purchase POP Countertop Sign

Late 1950s tri-panel revolving message countertop sign with three different messages. The  reverse screen-printed plastic faces are internally illuminated.  Cabitnets are metal.

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Schoenling Beer Glass and Metal Sign

Schoenling Beer sign is internally illuminated, reverse screen-printed glass face in metal cabinet.

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Redtop Beer Illuminated Plastic & Metal Sign

Pan face, internally illuminated Red Top Beer sign is reverse screen-printed face in aluminum extrusion frame and metal cabinet.

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Redtop Beer Cast Resin Sign

Cast resin screen-printed wall plaque has gold foil highlights and three-dimensional “ox horn.”