Whale sign from Doc's Great Fish House, 11 feet wide, 5 feet tall, tin steel, ex-neon.
Artist
Dock's Fish House, Chicago (original restaurant sign)
Dimensions
132 in wide x 60 in tall
Materials
Tin steel sign with junction box and neon brackets (tubes not present)
From the Captain's Log
FROM THE CAPTAIN'S LOG. I found this at an architectural remnant place in the late 90s in Wicker Park, Bucktown. It stayed in a Ukrainian Village for a while. Then I took it up on my Celica on the roof. It was actually longer than the car from Ukrainian Village to East Rogers Park and then now back. But it's an epic sign.
It's a fish; it was a small fish cane in the South Side of Chicago started by a man from Alabama. It was called Doc's Great Fish House. This is the sign. It's wired for, you know, you can see it used to have neon on it. So it's got the junction box and the brackets to hold the neon.
It could really do something to a room or something that relates to whales. It's tin steel, pretty heavy. It's about 11 feet wide and about five feet tall from the tail to the bottom tail or from the spout to the bottom tail. This is the one that started the website.
— The Captain, Whaleworx
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This tin steel sign is the whale from Doc’s Great Fish House, a South Side Chicago spot started by a man from Alabama. Once glowing with neon, it retains the junction box and brackets that held the neon tubes. It’s about 11 feet wide and five feet tall, a hefty piece of Chicago history.
After being found at an architectural remnant place in the late 90s, it traveled from Ukrainian Village to East Rogers Park atop a Toyota Celica, longer than the car itself. This sign is the one that inspired the Whaleworx name, a fitting homage to its storied past.
Heavy as a sailor’s sea chest and just as full of tales.
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