re: Shreveport nostalgia thread

Murrell's has been brought up several times, but I'd like to mention the old billboard that was on top of the building, which was there forever, advertising the Mid-City Motor Hotel (on Jordan). It actually wasn't exactly a billboard, as it was a permanent signage. I looked closely at it one time, and it seemed to be comprised of a kind of porcelain-ish blocks. It featured an artistic rendition of the front of the hotel, and parked at its entrance was a stylized old auto, looking something like an old mid-1950s Buick or the like. You really couldn't see the car unless you got up close and looked at the sign. Had never noticed it the millions of times I'd driven by it on Youree.

Anyway, the sign obviously dated back to the 1950s, and it intrigued me that it was still standing there and serving its purpose, all those years later. I took a photo of it in the mid-1990s. I also stayed once at the Mid-City Hotel around that time, but it wasn't in the best of shape, as I recall. It seemed big and rather creepily empty. I think the restaurant had long since closed. There used to be a childrens' shoe store housed on the other side of the hotel building, correct?