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Last weekend Michael and I grabbed a Zip Car and took off. We didn’t have a specific agenda, but sometimes it is nice just to go see what’s outside of center city (for a few hours). As I mentioned in Monday’s post, we ended up at a Davy Jones Concert in Geneva. While driving out there I noticed a few neon signs on Roosevelt Road that I knew I had to see after dark. So on the way back, we made a few stops and stood in parking lots with my tripod capturing some great neon signs. What I didn’t know was that I had a wrong setting on my camera the whole evening, and most of the images didn’t come out so well. This is the best of the lot… The first one is of Seven Dwarfs Restaurant in Wheaton. The sign is old, but the restaurant had been badly remodeled a few too many times.
Another sign in Wheaton that caught my eye was Malloy’s Save-Way Liquors. This sign is from the latter years of large neon signs for mom and pop businesses.
On the way back, he headed over to Brookfield to drop in on a friend and stumbled on Sawa’s Old Warsaw Polish Style Smorgasbord in Broadview, at 17th and Cermack.
The restaurant looks to be from the late 1940s, but from the history page on their website, they opened in 1973. I guess they really were going for that old world look.
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