A small sign above the door tells folks walking down this sidewalk that this is the door that leads to the Kyoto Japanese Restaurant. Unfortunately, the restaurant left here for a new location about a quarter mile up the road, so if you looked in through the glass, you would find an empty space. But the sign lives on, even though the restaurant is long gone.
All throughout the strip mall, it seems the owner/manager put these up for the benefit of shoppers. Further down you can see a sign for an optical store, that's been gone from that space for years. Sadly, there is only one orignal tennet left, a dry cleaners.
Neat thing about this Kyoto sign is that it's obviously using a sans serif font, but notice how they did their best to fit the entire name on one small sign. Big, widely spaced letters are used for "Kyoto", but the lettering for "Japanese Restaurant" are very narrow and squished together.
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