The historic Tujague’s restaurant sign that hung for decades over one of the city’s oldest French Quarter restaurants has been removed by the building’s owners and appears headed to a new home at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.
The sign’s removal earlier this month came after the Vieux Carré Commission in May approved a request by the building’s owner, real estate developer Mike Motwani and members of his family, to take it down.
The Motwanis said through an attorney that they intend to give the sign to the museum, whose executive director said she welcomes the addition to the collection of historic restaurant memorabilia. But it’s not clear who will pay for repairs to the 75-year-old sign, which is currently sitting in the yard of a neon repair shop in Central City.
“We told them we would love it, but we need to discuss a donation,” said the museum’s executive director Connie Jackson…