By adamg on Sat., 6/25/2016 - 12:15 pm
With BU looking to sell the building that now serves as the iconic sign's base, the Boston Preservation Alliance has started collecting signatures on a request to Boston to designate the giant, glowing beacon an official city landmark.
Landmark designation will protect the CITGO sign permanently and require any possible changes to be reviewed (including those that result from future development of 660 Beacon Street). Further, it will recognize the CITGO sign as an important piece of Boston history and culture.
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The Shreve Crump and Low
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 12:27pm
The Shreve Crump and Low building is a landmark and still facing a bulldozer. Why should a glorified billboard have greater protection?
It's a landmark?
By adamg
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 12:31pm
I thought that building was denied landmark status. Of course, I could be completely wrong - I don't know anything about a lot of things.
According to this it, SC&L building did not get landmark status
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:09pm
Scroll down after the article on 185 Franklin St
http://www.bostonartdeco.org/
but but but but
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:58pm
Old = "landmark"
If an advertisement can be
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 3:47pm
If an advertisement can be landmarked when a grand building is denied something is very wrong with the commission.
If an advertisement can be landmarked at all
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 9:01pm
Then there's something very wrong with the "historical preservation" process.
That building should have
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:30pm
That building should have some more preservation.
What is so "historically signficant" about
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 9:03pm
the Shreve Crump and Low building that it deserves landmark status? In a word, nothing.
For Historical Correctness, Change It Back To "Cities Service"
By Elmer
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 1:50pm
[img]https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/citiesservicesign2.jpg[/img]
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Think Times Square! Calling RISD !
By theszak
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:00pm
Or a Neon Designer create a new even better landmark! Think Times Square. Calling RISD !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_School_...
Calling all Design School !
https://www.google.com/search?q=design+schools+boston
I Knew A Man, His Name Was Lang, And He Had A Neon Sign
By Elmer
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:13pm
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Signs of the Times
By theszak
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:30pm
Signs of the Times
https://issuu.com/signs-of-the-times
Tear it down!
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:15pm
I have hated that advertising for a shitty oil company for decades. It should not be a source of pride just because it's familiar.
What happens if CITGO changes its name or logo, or merges?
By Ron Newman
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 2:34pm
I'm sympathetic to the cause, but corporate names and symbols don't necessarily last very long these days. Suppose another company buys CITGO and decides to get rid of the brand name, or CITGO just decides to change its name or its logo? (They already did that once, as they used to be "Cities Service" with a clover-shaped logo.)
I Thought It Looked More Like A Pickle Slice Than A Clover
By Elmer
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 3:36pm
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I imagine
By Kaz
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 4:18pm
We'll probably take the CITGO off of it and maybe change the colors slightly but if it's a landmark we leave it there because it's a landmark.
I mean look at how San Francisco repurposed the Rice-o-Roni ads into working streetcars for the tourists and St. Louis took down half that McDonald's ad and repainted the rest and New York left the King Kong set and even made it into a functional building. We could do the same.
That King Kong set
By jmeltzer
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 4:46pm
was better with the ape on it.
Seriously, has anyone ever tied a King Kong balloon to the Empire State Building?
Nobody's going to buy...
By perruptor
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 6:29pm
the oil company. Not unless Venezuela decides to sell it.
sshhh! don't give Walsh any
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 7:18pm
sshhh! don't give Walsh any ideas.
At the rate Venezuela's going
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 8:33pm
At the rate Venezuela's going there won't be anything left of Citgo to sell except drilling rights.
Actually, they tried to...
By E
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 9:03pm
PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela (and Citgo's parent)) put Citgo up for sale in 2014, but the bids they received were no where near what PDVSA was looking for, so the sale was called off.
Other cities have kept iconic
By anon
Sun, 06/26/2016 - 8:40pm
Other cities have kept iconic signs in their original forms despite name and logo changes. For example, the Amoco sign in St. Louis lives on despite becoming part of BP.
https://goo.gl/maps/uzQAXEGb8Wy
You mean that ugly sign in
By anon
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 10:32pm
You mean that ugly sign in Kenmore Sq. that advertises a company owned by a communist dictator. Where do I sign?
You mean that federal presidential republic?
By perruptor
Sun, 06/26/2016 - 5:52am
According to the CIA World Factbook, Venezuela is a republic, whose president is "directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 6-year term." If you have a more authoritative source, bring it.
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