Sometimes it takes a little imagination to come up with a birthday gift for Andrew Guanciale. Several months ago, the west half of Cornell's Clothing on North Park Place in Downtown Newark, Ohio owned by Steve Layman was remodeled. The sign from the original Bazaar's location was removed and kept by Robin Pierce. The Bazaar was known as a gentleman's bar, men only. I remember during high school, men would stop by for lunch with a drink and then after work. When ever you walked by and the door would open the cigar smoke would fill the sidewalk.

We purchased the "A" which still had it's 60 year old glass tubes and contracted with Kessler Sign of Zanesville to rework the transformer and what ever else they do to make an old florescent light work. By the smile and thank you, this was a good one of a kind gift that will last a long time and offer some stories in the future. Twelve months to go to figure out next year's gift.

Thank you to Scottamus' from Flickr photo of the old sign.