Jim R., I got you covered. This would be a great building for Menard's to produce.
Woolworth's and Murphy's
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I didn't need 2 Red Owl stores, so here are the results of my signage change. I found the sign artwork online and reworked them with Office Word. My mom worked at Kresge's in the early 1940s. The Pin Up Girl Clothing store is a contemporary company that specializes in vintage inspired and styled clothing. The girl in the window is singer/actress/model Renee Olstead.
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milnyc posted:I didn't need 2 Red Owl stores, so here are the results of my signage change. I found the sign artwork online and reworked them with Office Word. My mom worked at Kresge's in the early 1940s. The Pin Up Girl Clothing store is a contemporary company that specializes in vintage inspired and styled clothing. The girl in the window is singer/actress/model Renee Olstead.
WOW! What you've done looks fantastic? Could you please post here the files you've made and used so those of us who aren't as knowledgeable and adept as you in using Office Word to create and resize such signage could print what you've made directly from files you've created? How you created Pin Up Girl is fabulous, especially that great window!!!
I too am amazed at how you changed that so neatly! Wonderful job!
Very cool looking! It nice to see what other people are doing with there building to work on there layouts!
Here is the artwork. It is a word file. I have included some extra window displays.
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milnyc posted:Here is the artwork. It is a word file. I have included some extra window displays.
Thank you. It's definitely appreciated that you've chosen to share the work you did. Btw, on what type of paper or medium are the signs printed? Photo paper, presentation paper, regular copy paper, transparency film? Matte, semi-gloss, or glossy finish?
Again, thanks for sharing your work with the forum members.
I use cheap glossy photo paper. For the 2 signs above the awnings I use double stick scotch tape to attach them to a piece of clear acetate, and then use Walthers Goo to stick on to the building.
This is another great, simple structure. I can see the Watkins side turned into a small motel with the law office turned into the hotel owner's living space.
Another great one from Menards that offers something different. Reminds me of the Woodland Scenics Corner Emporium with the barber, pool hall, and ice cream shop all in one building. A lot of interest in a very small footprint.
What all went into changing out the lighted signs and windows?
towdog posted:This is another great, simple structure. I can see the Watkins side turned into a small motel with the law office turned into the hotel owner's living space.
Another great one from Menards that offers something different. Reminds me of the Woodland Scenics Corner Emporium with the barber, pool hall, and ice cream shop all in one building. A lot of interest in a very small footprint.What all went into changing out the lighted signs and windows?
The original signs above the awnings were carefully peeled from the building. The cheap photo paper that I used for the signs lets the light shine through from the back. I stuck them in place with Walthers Goo. I covered the Watkins awning sign with wide black tape and then used double stick scotch tape for the new sign on the front of the awning. The window sign is held in place with double stick tape.
I had hoped to dig in and replace the Red Owl sign this weekend, but Menards still hasn't unpacked my special order.
My ship-to-store order arrived at 10 a.m. Friday, but it was buried in a shipment of seven pallets, so when I showed up around 6:30 p.m. they said it would take too long to find it at that moment. So I came back Saturday night and found out the store had received another five pallets of stock, further burying my Watkins Building special order. Now they suggest I come back Monday. 
What I learned my last trip to Menards was when the tracker says arrived at store it basically means the truck pulled into the store. Then they have to unload the truck. So now I wait an extra day. Still beats having it sent to the house. ..........Paul
Usually only takes then an hour or two from past experiences. But the poor fellows who work in receiving had never experienced such a backload of shipments. The shipping area was almost completely filled, and that was after spending parts of Friday and Saturday unpacking the pallets. The entire section would have been overflowing if they hadn't. I had certainly never seen the area so packed with shrink-wrapped pallets.
Under all this was one building (and ambulance).
They did try to find it Saturday night. But it was impossible to locate without a full breakdown of the shipments of all things home improvement.
Here in Meridian we have a building that still has the Kress signage. I think this would look great replacing the Red Owl sign.
I'm really enjoying the ideas that are flowing in this thread!
We chose to use a light box behind the signs because we realized that folks may want to apply their own signs. With a little care, you can peel off the Red Owl or J.R. Watkins signs and put any signs you'd like on there. I should have pointed that out earlier but it looks like you guys have figured it out!
-Mark the Menards Train Guy
Goshawk posted:Here in Meridian we have a building that still has the Kress signage. I think this would look great replacing the Red Owl sign.
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Thank you for the signs MILNYC!
Mark Boyce posted:Thank you for the signs MILNYC!
You're welcome, but someone else did the hard work. I found them with a Google search for FW Woolworths signs.
milnyc posted:Mark Boyce posted:Thank you for the signs MILNYC!
You're welcome, but someone else did the hard work. I found them with a Google search for FW Woolworths signs.
I appreciate your honesty. You posted them here though!
milnyc posted:Goshawk posted:Here in Meridian we have a building that still has the Kress signage. I think this would look great replacing the Red Owl sign.
Very handy. Now I'm torn. Should I go "Woolworths," which existed in every town I ever lived (but one) from New York to Minnesota to Wisconsin? Or "S.S. Kresge," which spawned Kmart in the 1960s. Or stick with the Red Owl/Watkins combo for their historic Minnesota connections?
Anyway, thanks for the sign help. It makes the task easier, if not the decision.
Oh, and the building is home now. Menards guys were hard at work on Easter Sunday, with four guys unpacking a dozen skids so that the Monday crew walked into a mostly cleaned up receiving area. I was in and out in less than five minutes tonight, special order in hand.
Not that I want to complain, but I misunderstood the free ambulance promo and assumed you only got one per order, not one per qualifying train car, so I deleted the 2nd ambulance from my order. Not sure if I really needed more than one anyway, but it's duly noted for future orders.
I received my Watkins Block today, and am happy with it. Yes, I will change the Red Owl sign because there have never been any Red Owls in Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia, but I haven't decided what to change it to yet. My wife likes it too, so that is a double bonus! Thanks Menards.
