When Is a Rock City Barn Not a barn?

This sign in North Chattanooga finally caught my attention

just before it was sand-blasted into oblivion.

 People naturally assume that every structure that carried a "See Rock City" sign is/was actually a barn. The fact is, however, that while most were indeed barns, many were not. Off the top of my head I can think of at least four small country stores, quite a few sheds and garages, and at least three free-standing silos. Even a restaurant.

And that doesn't count signs painted on the sides of commercial buildings. Somehow, though, I was completely oblivious to the sign on the building on South Broad Street in Chattanooga even though I passed it on the way home from my studio every day. 

I almost lost out completely on the sign at the top of this post, even though I passed it frequently without my brain in gear. It was located on Frazier Avenue, just across the river from downtown Chattanooga and right by the north end of the Walnut Street Bridge. I probably would have passed it by again if my attention had not been caught by the fact that a crew was sand-blasting it away to renovate an old storefront into a Subway Restaurant.

Since Rock City did not retain these signs in their records, I suspect there were a lot more of them that I missed, both in Chattanooga and in other towns. 

I passed this sign on South Broad Street in Chattanooga every day without noticing it.

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