Stunned by signage

The 6/1 Zippy strip celebrates a vibrant life on the side of the road, in drive-in joints offering comfort food and in flashy highway motels, in the lost days of mid-20th-century America (think HoJo’s clam strips): (#1) Stunned by signage: an octogenarian’s bulletin from the golden days; the cartoonist Bill Griffith was born in 1944, I was born in 1940, so this was the time of our youth Remembrance of lost time: L-Ken’s Drive-In Restaurant in Colonie NY (a northern suburb of Albany, the state capital) was demolished on 4/20/17; the Tucson Inn, in Arizona’s second city, was demolished in April 2025. Both were famed for their neon signs (cartooned above). Signage 1. From Chuck Miller’s Chuck the Writer blog, “Memories of L-Ken’s…” from 1/5/11: (#2) Photo of L-Ken’s taken by Chuck Miller in May 2009 L-Ken’s has been shuttered for years. The serving area is strewn with graffiti tags; the parking lot is starting to buckle. But I wanted to capture the memories of the iconic neon sign that…