Mystery Arizona Don the Beachcomber Sign - General Tiki

GK Grand Kahu Grand Member (2 years) Dallas, TX Joined: Jul 31, 2006 Posts: 189	GK Grand Kahu Posted posted on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 1:15 PM Well, one really needs a bit more detail to see how professionally-lettered the sign is, but aside from it being the home of a die-hard Don fan (read, most of us on this board), who would actually go to the trouble of making a fake "Don" sign of that scale? It's pretty derned esoteric in the scheme of things. If it said "Jimmy Buffett Lives" I might see it as a fake. ;D If the rest of the yard, um, "decor" was adrift in fake signs, that might be a clue too, but if it is the usual out-of-the-way home/junque store, I suspect it was just a haul from a demolition site and could very well be the Palm Springs sign, repainted or not. (And as an architectural historian, I very much agree these kind of renderings take huge guesses/liberties as to the final signage, so I would not worry that the drawing is not a clean match to the sign) GK

Well, one really needs a bit more detail to see how professionally-lettered the sign is, but aside from it being the home of a die-hard Don fan (read, most of us on this board), who would actually go to the trouble of making a fake "Don" sign of that scale? It's pretty derned esoteric in the scheme of things. If it said "Jimmy Buffett Lives" I might see it as a fake. ;D

If the rest of the yard, um, "decor" was adrift in fake signs, that might be a clue too, but if it is the usual out-of-the-way home/junque store, I suspect it was just a haul from a demolition site and could very well be the Palm Springs sign, repainted or not. (And as an architectural historian, I very much agree these kind of renderings take huge guesses/liberties as to the final signage, so I would not worry that the drawing is not a clean match to the sign)

Post #478609 by Grand Kahu on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 1:15 PM