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Article: Can this sign be saved?; (It's been done before).(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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1/3 The Flanagan Memo - RE: Jim Smart and Joan Crawford, plus parking and the Academy Awards.
What about the sign?
So now the Nankin has closed - what do we do about the historic, 70-year-old lighted restaurant sign? I helped save it once, by ranting about it in my column, and I wonder if we can save it again.
The advertising landmark, which contains more than 700 feet of neon, was put into storage in 1981 when the restaurant moved into City Center. (At one point developers banned it from the City Center facade, a decision that was later reversed.) In November 1984, after restoration, the 30-foot-tall sign was installed outside the ...
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