One of the more distinctive street signs in Louisville has up and vanished. The sign is located near the corner of Ninth Street and West Main Street and is hanging on the Kentucky Mirror & Plate Glass building. The sign began its life with the Progress Paint Manufacturing Company but sometime last year got a complete makeover, trading its cartoon persona for a real life portrait and its paint placard for a real life mirror. It seems now that the sign was a little too realistic as it appears to have jumped off the building and run away. Keep your eyes peeled for a plastic man in overalls running downtown with a mirror.
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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
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