I last saw it all in wooden crates at Gloria Poore’s downtown loft in about 1985. The neon was saved/salvaged by an ad-hoc preservation group called SONO (Save Our Neon Organization, a play on SOHO’s name). Gloria Poore and Juliette Mondot were the principals in that group if you can track them down.
They probably did something artistic with it. Back in the day (early 80s) you could have just about any old sign or tube you wanted or could handle just for the asking. Or sometimes for the taking, if it was doomed. I owned the Zebra Club, Lyceum Theatre, 5th Ave palette, cold cathode from the Pan Pacific in LA, etc. for a time myself.
SOHO is the major San Diego historic preservation organization. A registered nonprofit since 1969. We have fought, with mixed success, the demolition of Cinemas and live theatres in town for years.
To clarify, the theatre was replaced with a shopping “strip mall” but the location where the majorette was moved to was a previously existing larger mall, about 1 ½ miles from the theater site. At the theatre site are newer, small scale versions of the majorette figure.
I last saw it all in wooden crates at Gloria Poore’s downtown loft in about 1985. The neon was saved/salvaged by an ad-hoc preservation group called SONO (Save Our Neon Organization, a play on SOHO’s name). Gloria Poore and Juliette Mondot were the principals in that group if you can track them down.
They probably did something artistic with it. Back in the day (early 80s) you could have just about any old sign or tube you wanted or could handle just for the asking. Or sometimes for the taking, if it was doomed. I owned the Zebra Club, Lyceum Theatre, 5th Ave palette, cold cathode from the Pan Pacific in LA, etc. for a time myself.
SOHO is the major San Diego historic preservation organization. A registered nonprofit since 1969. We have fought, with mixed success, the demolition of Cinemas and live theatres in town for years.
To clarify, the theatre was replaced with a shopping “strip mall” but the location where the majorette was moved to was a previously existing larger mall, about 1 ½ miles from the theater site. At the theatre site are newer, small scale versions of the majorette figure.