Several months after a historic neon sign associated with Tower Records was installed inside a Broadway office without permission from the city, a Sacramento official said it can remain there.
The sign, referred to in a mid-2010s interview by Tower Records founder Russ Solomon as “the dancing kids sign,” dates to 1949 and formerly was installed atop Tower Cafe. It vanished roughly 2-1/2 years ago before being installed around the holidays inside offices at 1508 Broadway for the Tower District.
The Endowment Board, which owns the Tower Theatre building that the cafe and Tower District offices are located in and didn’t respond to an interview request for this story, applied to install a replica of the historic sign. In the process of investigating, the city also learned that a replica Joe Marty’s sign had been installed on the building, with the original sold to an unknown buyer. Its whereabouts are unknown…