tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670547542156136826.post7422896235703447315..comments2024-03-10T03:08:26.496-05:00Comments on The Sixth Ward: The Magiskist Carpet sign that once stood near 87th & Dan Ryan #tbtLevoishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738239742618133212noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670547542156136826.post-71313668630681911452021-05-05T19:00:18.787-05:002021-05-05T19:00:18.787-05:00P.S. Naxon's font was used on a Magikist sign...P.S. Naxon's font was used on a Magikist sign - on the West Randolph Street side of the frontage for the Shoppers Corner building at 150 N. State from 1968 well into the 1980's. The year before that (1967), it was seen on the billboard on that same side for 'Chicago News Central', a smaller cousin of the Walgreens / Life news zipper at 151 N. State on the corner with East Randolph that in turn was a sister to the news zipper around what was then the Allied Chemical Tower at what would come to be designated One Times Square in New York City.wbhisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02270661237413315760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670547542156136826.post-34247075524525256182020-12-11T21:21:30.403-06:002020-12-11T21:21:30.403-06:00I seem to remember that the font on the 88 x 7 mat...I seem to remember that the font on the 88 x 7 matrix electronic sign accompanying the time/temperature display on those Magikist signs was identical to the type seen over Times Square in NYC from 1969 to the mid-1980's on the billboard that, to 1976, peddled Canadian Club whiskey, then Suntory Whisky on its first round, and after that Midori Melon Liqueur. (When Suntory returned to that spot, the font running through that zipper changed.) I wonder what sign company installed these zippers, I know they date to at least 1969. Could it have been Chicago-based Naxon Telesign, or if not them, who?<br /><br />(I know that the 1956-6? TWA sign on North State and West Randolph atop the Shoppers Corner building used "traveling message sign" zippers with fonts from Trans-Lux, for example. And that other companies such as Daktronics and Time-O-Matic a.k.a. WatchFire had fonts that were seen through such zippers and/or LED displays over the years.)wbhisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02270661237413315760noreply@blogger.com