The store refurbished the chair in 1969, but went out of business leaving the sign to fade. The sign was a clear message of what wares the store was hawking. First it was at Haynes and Kane Furniture store. Ever since the 1940s, there was a World’s Tallest Ladder-back Chair sign in Bennington, Vt. Though Vermont shuns roadside billboards to preserve its natural beauty, there are a few oddities along the roads. World’s Largest Ladder-back Chair, Google Maps It offers the distances to Maine towns that also share the name of foreign locales, including Peru and Sweden. old Route 3) in South China that seems to capture both Maine’s diverse heritage and its dry humor. The sign for the sign for the Goldenrod in York Beach also deserves a nomination.īut we settled on the small road sign on Village Street (a.k.a. The purple/pink dinosaur of Perry’s Nut House in Belfast comes to mind, or pick your favorite from Old Orchard. To see it, you can visit Kenmore Square – or just turn on your television for any Red Sox home game. As is the original sign, which has been refurbished and updates many times over the years since it first appeared in the 1940s. There was originally a Cities Services (now Citgo) gas station in the building where the signs sits, but it’s long gone.
Year in, year out, Boston Red Sox baseball fans – wherever they may be – are treated to endless television shots of the dazzling, lighted sign during breakaways, and its impossible not to associate it with the lazy, pleasant summer nights spent watching a game. But the Kenmore Square Citgo sign has to get the nod. For its kitsch and craziness, few can match it. It would be tempting to nominate the Hilltop Steakhouse Cactus on Route 1 as the most well-known Massachusetts sign.
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