Something happened to a "We Buy Houses" sign on Rte. 66 in Portland Sunday AM. Like perhaps it was hanging on chains, and was attached by nuts that maybe yielded easily to a socket wrench. It looks like it might've been fairly elaborate, with letters that were cut individually from a reflective material. Shame that somebody seems to have swiped it.
It may not show up in the picture all that clearly, but the cross-bar on the sign's post is held in place by a similar nut and a single decking screw. So if the sign is replaced, something more elaborate might have to happen to the post.
As an aside - a coworker wondered if the sign could be altered somehow to read "We Buy Shoes - Any Condition," and what kind of reaction that might generate.
>As an aside - a coworker wondered if the sign could be >altered somehow to read "We Buy Shoes - Any Condition," and >what kind of reaction that might generate.
You know what would be easier? How about "WE BUY HORSES ANY CONDITION."
AN UPDATE - Sunday morning, there was a replacement sign hanging from the same post. Not quite as nice as the first one, but hung with the same nut-and-bolt setup dangling from two small chains. After the sign was dispatched, I grabbed the cross bar by removing the nut and the four decking screws, then giving it a few hammer whacks to liberate it.
To demonstrate that there's nothing personal in my removing this sign a second time, and to prevent hard feelings, I decorated the lone remaining vertical bar with a nice smiley face. That should smooth things over.
Ok, Zoro was my hero, but now you are (your smiley face trademark is much better than his slashing "Z"!). Very nice work on a particularly challenging sign (X2)!
"It's 10 p.m. Do you know what Dumpster your street spam is sleeping in?"
So THAT'S why I didn't see the sign when we went through Portland on Sunday on the way to Glastonbury to take the old ferryboat across. (Had lunch at that "Happy Days" burger & dog & ice cream stand in Cobalt; I highly recommend their chili-cheese dog with kraut.)
However, I did see one other sign that was in front of somebody's house (have seen this in other areas as well). If the sign is in the front yard of a residence, I'd get in touch with the zoning people in town, because you can't put up a sign like that in an area zoned for residential. You also need to register any business you run out of your house with the town, and get a sales tax certificate from the state.
Sometimes it's easier to let the Powers That Be do some of the work for you.
Keep up the good work...Portland's pretty clean, and I assume it's thanks to you.
