So much is going on, scoring some nice cans locally here in the Portland area. I am sending you some pics of several nice scores in recent months with some notes on them. The biggest score happened just before Christmas. I was contacted by a guy in the Bay Area who was in a glass shop in Pittsburgh California that was going out of business. This man had owned this glass business since the 1950's and was closing shop and retiring. I guess some years back he discovered up in the rafters of his old building there were two large wooden crates that contained two very large porcelain neon signs. He knew the building was built in the 1930's and he figured these crates were there since then, but he didn't know for sure? These crates have been in the attic/rafters of this old building since the late 30's or early 40's from what I have gathered. Now that it was time to close-up shop he decided it was time to get these crates down and do something with these signs so he could sell the business and the building. The signs happened to be (2) double-sided porcelain/neon signs from Rainier Brewing of San Francisco. One was Rainier and the other was Tacoma. My luck paid off as the guy who contacted me thought since they were Rainier and Tacoma that they were Northwest signs and through my contacts I could probably do something with them. He never knew they were from San Francisco or I may have never been called. When I got pictures of them I was so astonished that I made a trip down to the East Bay the following weekend and secured the deal. What I brought home was two absolutely mint double-sided porcelain signs that are 5' by 3'. They had the original neon tubing that was broken on all 4 sides but has since been repaired. Here are some photos of these two classic signs from around 1937 that are absolutely diamonds. Please post the photos on your website so all members of the chapter can enjoy them. -Pat Franco
These two cans showed up here in my town two weeks ago. An old woman had them for close to 70 years, with original caps on them.
