In exactly one year, the neon globe from the old Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) newspaper will mark its 75th birthday. With this diamond anniversary on the horizon, a plan may be in the works to restore the gem of a local landmark to its former glory.
. It used to be illuminated with dozens of linear feet of neon tubes marking the latitude and longitude lines and the boundaries of continents. The eagle is also outlined in neon, and there’s a band of letters around the equator that spell out “It’s in the P-I” – and that band of letters used to rotate around the globe by way of an electric motor and rubber tires .
MOHAI director Leonard Garfield told KIRO Newsradio that hopes are to eventually raise enough money to repair and restore the globe and to fund its long-term annual operating expenses, which are not insignificant. In 2000, late Seattle P-I public affairs executive John Joly said the newspaper spent roughly $50,000 a year to maintain the vintage sign.
MOHAI, under Garfield’s leadership, gets why it’s important to preserve what he describes as an artifact that is “seminal to downtown Seattle history.”
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