The Pig Stand has closed its doors for good. A classic sign collector has already hauled off a 12-foot specimen.
, but the decades-old diner still had plenty of action in its parking lot Monday, with classic cars on hand for a movie shoot and a classic sign collector taking home some of its neon.
Austin-based collector Clifton M. Jones hauled off the Pig Stand’s sprawling “Coffee Shop” sign, a roughly 12-foot, reflective red wonder that Jones estimates dates back to the late 1940s to early 1950s. There’ll be an auction of the restaurant’s furnishings and decor on April 1, to benefit the diner’s former staff. But one of its most memorable fixtures is now gone.“With these types of iconic signs, the developers buy these properties, they usually don’t see any value in this stuff, and they just get rid of it,” he said.
Mike Ryan of Texas Neon & LED Sign Co. secured the sign with a truck-mounted crane for Jones to haul to a storage facility in Lockhart. A camera crew earlier had captured around two dozen colorful vehicles from Alamo City Rods assembled outside the eatery for “Once Upon a Time in San Anto,” a Sinatra-era period piece in the works by San Antonio filmmaker Jaime Ledezma.
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