Showing posts with label signs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signs. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Cameron's Seafood Sign Leaving Pasadena

The familiar Cameron's Seafood sign is on the trailer and leaving town.  

The sign, complete with handmade neon lights that outline the sign lettering, will be preserved at the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale.  Presumably the sign will find a home in the museum's extensive neon sign collection.  

Of course, I have many fond memories of Cameron's -- the lobster tank, a young boy who ordered calamari, graduation and birthday celebrations.  Cameron's was the kind of place you could enjoy a good meal and expect to see a friendly face from the neighborhood.  

On the corner of East Colorado Blvd. and Berkeley Ave., Cameron's was a fixture in East Pasadena for decades.  The restaurant was named after initial owner John Cameron and new ownership took over in the 1980's.  Reportedly, the restaurant closed due to Covid-19 restrictions and never reopened.  

So what will happen to the Cameron's site?  In August 2021, In-N-Out Burger applied to the City for approval to build a new In-N-Out restaurant on the site.  The proposal includes 45 parking spaces, outdoor seating and a two-lane drive through.  However, the plan would require zoning code exceptions, including a variance from current code which requires at least 500 foot separation between drive through uses.   

With the separation requirement, the Taco Bell drive through right across the street would make it difficult for the City to approve any drive through on the former Cameron's site -- even the immensely popular In-N-Out.  Not sure where the In-N-Out proposal stands or what other plans might be in the works for the Cameron's site.  

To round this story out -- Pasadena is, of course, home to the oldest operating In-N-Out restaurant.  The location on East Foothill was established in 1952 and cars still line up daily for the famous burgers and fries.  The location includes, wouldn't you know it, an historic landmark neon sign, which was the subject of this early East of Allen post.      


Sunday, August 29, 2010

Texas Stop Sign

Do you get a ticket if you run a SOTP sign?

This photo from my niece originates east of Allen Avenue -- about 1500 miles east.