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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.puzzle
Subject: Re: amusingly corrupted famous signs
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 23:00:34 EDT
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In article <1429@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP writes:
>...  For
>years somebody at the Kroger near Duke has been turning off the K and
>the R in the sign and leaving OGER.
>
>Which brings up an interesting puzzle:  What other famous signs can be
>amusingly corrupted by selective darkening of individual letters?

My mother tells me that for some time during her childhood
(she was born in '17), the neon sign above the ESSEX HOUSE
in Manhattan had its first two letters unlit.
-- 


Rob Bernardo, San Ramon, California
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