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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Along 66, December 2018: Sonrise Donuts Sign in Sptingfield, Illinois


DECEMBER 12--  Sonrise Donuts sign in Springfield, Illinois,  is being auctioned off.  The sign is nearly 70 years old and very striking.  The building it sits atop in a non-doughnut tenant and no longer wants it there as people keep coming in asking for you-know-whats.

One side of it is now at $3,000 and the other at $2,500.

The sign, located at 1101 S. Ninth Street (Route 66 alignment) has been off for many years.

Sonrise Donuts closed in 1998 after the death of long-tern owner Don "Donuts" Greenslade.  Sonrise opened in 1947 by Byron Figuera, who bought the sign two years later..  Greenslade was a former employee, bought the business in 1967 and at one point made over 400 varieties of donuts a day.

The sign shows a rising sun with the words "SONRISE DONUTS  Famous For  Coffee Bar."

--RoadDog






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