Post #388476 by procinema29 on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 11:20 PM

This is just a passing thought that I thought I would post. You know so many things are being torn down, have probably noticed a lot of things vanishing yourselves...that cool old building, that beloved sign, etc.

There's a shopping center here in the Rosemead area...it's on Valley Blvd. and has been there for more than forty years...been there as long as I can remember, anyway...

And they had this cool designy thing, a Googie sign made of colored panes of glass mounted in metal boxes attached to a pole...it looked somewhere between 50's Googie and 60's Austin Powers, anyway. Actually it wasn't technically a sign, just a decorative construction. There to look pretty and to attract you to the shopping center.

For a long time I would drive by this and think, "That thing is from another time...I have this strange feeling someone will just tear it down soon because it looks so old..."

I had thought about going out to photograph it, but I never got around to it. And not too long ago, someone did indeed make the decision to rip it down. It's gone.

I wish I could show you a photo, but I was too lazy to take one. Believe me, it was beautiful.

So now, when I see something like this, I am going to make an effort to take a picture, just to save it.