Permission to use as needed?
Those are the ones that they don’t sell in October? 
Why is a Gas Station sign so cherished? I have never understood that.
The lights in Wrigley I understood.
The loss of the facade at Yankee Stadium I understood.
You still have your green monster and crazy dimensions. Why is a Citgo sign so important, or are they planning to replace it with a Starbucks sign, then I would be forced to agree with you.
Is this akin to the minor but vocal protest that Yankees fans made when they replaced our Cracker Jacks with Fiddle Faddle a few seasons back? Or do you equate it to the Lights at Wrigley? OR is it simple outrage that another dopey politician seems to be turning debate into the sign into an updated version of Freedom Fries?
I can really agree with the last one being beneath contempt.
Jim
As always, freak freely.
Your location says “Tokyo”.
You can take the Red Sox fan out of Boston, but you can’t take the Fenway Frank out of his paws.
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Wait, that’s not…
I plead guilty, your honor, and throw myself on the mercy of the court. I am a Masshole and a Sox fan, but it was late and I was tired.
Originally from Stoneham.
My grandmonther used to live on the 23rd floor of an apartment building on Boylston street, with a west-facing view. I used to be mesmerized by that damn sign, and this was back in the 1970s, when it was still fairly new and fully functional.
I’m glad to hear it’s been refurbished. Here’s CITGO’s page on the sign.
If Boston’s still the same Boston I left 9 years ago, the driver of any wrecking crane approaching that sign is in for a world of hurt.
Five years ago, this would have worked, but big time and downtown. When Elmer Fudd was still The Leader, they could have gotten huge mileage out of this. Hell, they would have torn down the Citgo sign and started working on the GW Bush Freedom Center, or some such rot.
Now, they’re only hoping to stir outrage to lend a patina of dignity to a failure. Doesn’t look like its selling.
That so obviously says “1970s-80s Public Building”… did they sell them in kits?
And does this mean the distinguished gentleman from the Council is willing to allow that if the government changes hands in '08, we may erase all traces of the Haliburton corporation from the land?
Actually, it was built in the mid-sixties. I.M. Pei, who designed the rest of the plaza it sits on, is often blamed for it, but I just found out it was designed by three Columbia University professors.
I’ve always heard that City Hall was designed by two architecture professors (Kallman & McKinnell), who had never actually worked as architects before and won an open competition to design a new city hall. It pretty much became the prototype for a million hideous public buildings. The company they formed was Kallman McKinnell & Knowles, and is now Kallman McKinnell & Wood. They’re still in business, designing stuff that looks pretty decent, IMHO.
That crap about the Citgo sign is just stupid.
Looking for more info on Jerry McDermott and this issue, I found This lovely blog entry
My mother says that when she was in labor with me (in the Boston Lying-In, now Brigham and Women’s) the women on that side of the hospital timed their contractions by the Citgo sign.
I have the Citgo sign on my class ring.
You know, I’m not given to such expressions of approval, but I heartily welcome this OP with a standing ovation of left-handed golf claps.
I know this girl at the gym who has an awesome Ford tattoo. Are you single?
Where is the…come to think of it, never mind.
Married, not interested in girls. But every person who graduated from MIT in 1990 or later and has a ring has the Citgo sign on it.
Huh, I was born there too. Are you in your early 30s?
To be precise, what was the labor area where I was born is now a parking garage for Children’s Hospital, though.