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Submitted by cpassante on Thu, 2008-04-24 13:55.
Boundary Street is looking a whole lot better with the new, lower signs out in front of businesses. Not that this has to be Martha's Vineyard, but it also doesn't have to look like US19 in Clearwater, Fla., either (a few more check-chasing joints, and...).
But the city did good in (finally) enforcing an old ordinance to get the rusty signs off the 25-foot poles and give us a cleaner look.
But I still think the Maryland Fried Chicken sign, whether you consider it historic or not, needs to come down.
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You gotta be kidding. I use to work there in the early 70s. I don't think I'm that old. To be listed on the National Register of Historic Places the place, building, object or whatever must be at least 50 years old among other requirements. Anyway what is so bad about keeping the MFC sign up as long as the business is still serving fried chicken? Sure looks better than those gaudy mermaids that were placed around town last year or those cows that were up several years ago. You got something against fried chicken? Must be one of those damn Yankees.
I'm so "blessed" to have grown up in Beaufort during the 50s and 60s; before all those folks from Martha's Vineyard moved down here.
I agree that the lower signs look much better than the tall, rusty, and obviously worn-out signs such as MFC. Love their chicken, the owners is a great guy, the employees are nice, was born and raised here, but the sign is ugly and looks bad.
There is one more thing that needs to come down - the building next to Wendy's and the seafood place on Boundary. I think it was an old fire station many, many years ago. That building looks absolutely terrible. Who is in charge of that old thing?
There is one more thing that needs to come down - the building next to Wendy's and the seafood place on Boundary. I think it was an old fire station many, many years ago. That building looks absolutely terrible. Who is in charge of that old thing?
That building you are describing was the old hdqts. of the Burton Fire District. Of course, that was before Beaufort City annexed that part of Rt. 21. Burton built another headquarters and the City of Beaufort annexed that land too.
Burton was a very fine fire district during the many years I lived there. We even furnished fire service to Port Royal when we still had the swimg bridge over Battery Creek.
The building you are referring to belongs to the people who own Signs Now.
That old fire station has been owned by the folks who own Signs Now for years. They have future plans for it and in the meantime they pay taxes on it and keep the yard landscaped. It's their propertywhy should anyone else have a problem?
MFC was a rather small chain of restaurants, no longer operating under one owner. There are several still open under the MFC and some still use that same sign.
I think it began by a company using the chickens from the Delmava Peninsula.
Delmava had really good produce too, the only place I've ever traveled that they grew those very light green delicious cantaloupes that local farners sold on the highway.
Rather a long road up north via the Norfolk bridge, but worth the extra time.
Wonder what Rehoboth Beach looks like these days.
Those smoked Thanksgiving turkeys from the Beaufort MFC were really great!
We carried them up north for many years.
...I love the chicken and spuds...
just not the sign.
And, by the way, Maryland is pretty far north of Beaufort...
Would you arm-wrestle me over a rusty McDonald's sign, too?
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