Signs

As a small business off the beaten track of Main Street, one of our primary objectives is, quite frankly, to get people to be aware that we exist. In Tarrytown, that's gotten a lot harder in the last few months, as a campaign was launched to "clean up the streets" by getting all signs, merchandise, furniture, etc...off of the sidewalks.

Obviously that seems aimed at Mint, although everyone we've talked to thinks the display of foods & bottles and posters that Hassan has out front adds, not detracts, from the look of Main Street. As long as people can make their way safely down the sidewalk, I can't see who's being hurt by, for instance, the "open" sign out in front of Whimsies, or the barbecue grills and wheelbarrows in front of Goldberg Hardware.

Or the sandwich board on the corner of Kaldenberg & Main that says "art gallery open".

Well, collateral damage we may be, but it really hurt us not to have that sign out there. When people come through the gallery, often we ask them how they heard about us, and more often than not, they say they saw the sign on the corner.

So, Tim came up with another idea; this one's not homemade (he built & painted that original sign in our basement one weekend), but I think it looks great, and it's out of the way. Let's see if we get any flak about it.

In the meantime, we found a way to put the old sandwich board to good use. Sign by Tim Thayer, fries by Mint.

Come on down & see us sometime. Thanks for reading.

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