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The Ritz Classic bowling pin sign, 90 feet tall and built in 1958, was returned to State Street in South Salt Lake on May 9, 2017, after renovation by YESCO. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that it would mark the entrance to the new Ritz Classic Apartments.
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Ritz Classic Lanes giant neon bowling pin sign (90 ft, refurbished)
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Site-level location · 40.7217° N, 111.8881° W
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For decades a 90-foot bowling pin towered above the Ritz Classic bowling alley on State Street in South Salt Lake. According to the Salt Lake Tribune in May 2017, the sign was built in 1958, taken apart on April 12, 2017, and renovated before South Salt Lake and the Yesco sign company returned it to its longtime perch on May 9. The Tribune reported that it would mark the entrance to the Ritz Classic Apartments, then under construction.
Think Architecture, which designed the apartments, describes the bowling alley as now shuttered and the reassembled sign as a symbol of the neighbourhood's past and future; it says the five-storey complex has 287 units. The architects write that the pin has served as a place-maker for the area since 1958.
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In May 2017 the Salt Lake Tribune reported the refurbished 90-foot bowling-pin sign back on State Street at the entrance to the Ritz Classic Apartments. The bowling alley it advertised has closed.
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On State Street in South Salt Lake, at the entrance to an apartment complex.
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