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Today I was doing a sales call for a guy who's re-opening an old run down bar. The building is an old historical type of joint. Nice with lots of brick, but the guy just wanted to get the awning letting. I suggested a few other options, but he tells me the city will not allow any other type of sign because of the building's age. So,,,being the woman that I am, I visited the planning department from the city. It was just a few blcoks away, and I know that they are dead this time of day. So I asked about the signs etc, showed them a qucik drawing, yadda yadda yadda, my signs ideas were just fine by the city codes. So I go back to the bar owner and tell him where I went and that the city has no problems with the other signs I suggested. So he says, "I'll think about it" Maybe he was just being cheap or maybe he didn't think he would come accross a person like me. Time will only tell.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3813 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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He may have talked with another business owner sho is in a different zone & wouldn't be allowed the type of signs you wanted to do. Or, he got the wrong person at the planning department who just wanted to brush him off.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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He's watching his nickels and dimes, but didn't know how to tell you. Give him time, he might come thru...
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I'm kinda like the mouse that roars. I want to see nice signs around that old downtown area. I'm trying to up the standard.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3813 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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I could never figure out why people think that "just letter the old awning" is going to be a huge savings for them.
They are a super PITA to letter on site. It never fails that the old stuff can not be covered up, too.
The heck with that. Don't quote it cheap.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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