One original 11-foot letter is hiding inside a Kenmore Square bar.
As the iconic Citgo sign that welcomed fans to Fenway Park and marked the final stretch of the Boston Marathon came down this spring, one question lingered: What would happen to the original letters that had become part of Boston’s identity?
One of them is hiding in plain sight — inside Cornwall’s, the neighborhood bar in Kenmore Square that once directly sat beneath the sign. The 11-foot tall blue C, one of the original letters removed when the sign began dismantling the sign in May, now sits in a window at the neighborhood’s longest continuously operating restaurant.
And its iconic blue light, now casting over the tavern’s interior, is already attracting attention. Customers and passersby stop to take pictures.
“When it first came here I liked to call it the bug zapper because it was a very … intense adjustment to the lighting level in the bar,” bartender Gavin Wills said. “But it certainly attracts customers, that’s for sure.”…