The Manchester Parkade sign as it was on the thriving West Middle Turnpike end. The wooden-framed sign is mostly still there albeit signs now all replaced.

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A once 20-year fixture of Broad Street in Manchester was finally removed on September 2011.

The giant, iconic logo and towering road sign once signaled patrons into the long-running Manchester Parkade which has since become a perch for pidgeons, seagulls and other dead mall winged wildlife.

Since the closure, the site has fallen on very hard times following the closure of Bradlees being a tremendous blight and ghost-town to a slowly redeveloping area of Manchester. The sign's removal marks the first strike in a long overdue demolition which took place in Spring 2012.

This sign was shot upon my first visit in 2006.

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A once 20-year fixture of Broad Street in Manchester was finally removed on September 1, 2011.

The giant, iconic logo and towering road sign once signaled patrons into the long-running Manchester Parkade which has since become a perch for pidgeons, seagulls and other dead mall winged wildlife.

Since the closure, the site has fallen on very hard times following the closure of Bradlees being a tremendous blight and ghost-town to a slowly redeveloping area of Manchester. The sign's removal marks the first strike in a long overdue demolition which took place in Spring 2012.

Here is an archival shot of the sign from December 2006.

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A once 20-year fixture of Broad Street in Manchester was finally removed on September 2011.

The giant, iconic logo and towering road sign once signaled patrons into the long-running Manchester Parkade which has since become a perch for pidgeons, seagulls and other dead mall winged wildlife.

Since the closure, the site has fallen on very hard times following the closure of Bradlees being a tremendous blight and ghost-town to a slowly redeveloping area of Manchester. This sign removal marks the first strike in a long overdue demolition -- which has yet to begin (as of February 2012).

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A once 20-year fixture of Broad Street in Manchester was finally removed on September 2011.

The giant, iconic logo and towering road sign once signaled patrons into the long-running Manchester Parkade which has since become a perch for pidgeons, seagulls and other dead mall winged wildlife.

Since the closure, the site has fallen on very hard times following the closure of Bradlees being a tremendous blight and ghost-town to a slowly redeveloping area of Manchester. The sign's removal marks the first strike in a long overdue demolition which took place in Spring 2012.

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