Look at this beauty in Beatrice, Nebraska!!
Yet another Owl cigar sign, but there's much more.
There's the remnants of wholesale groceries across the top.
Argo Starch above the Straiton and Storm's Owl.
And another cent sign mixed in with at least three signs
in the lower right hand corner.
And if you'll note, the yellow block letters seem to spell Durham.
Directly below them we see "Toba" which leads us to believe
there's a Bull Durham tobacco sign mixed in there.
(Whoever painted on top of who, Owl or Bull Durham, this had
to be something of an advertising coup.)
And over on the left, there's a figure in a yellow circle
above a white panel.
(At first we thought it might be another version of the Owl Cigar owl,
but comparing it to yesterday's entry leads us to believe they're
quite different.)
Brilliant!!
Kudos to Stone Hollow Brewing for not destroying it.
(AND, after looking through our records, we found early photos
of this sign, before the building had been repurposed. Courtesy of
Ms. D. Walz.)
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