Lauck’s Bakery sign still needs a home
After two eBay auctions, the historic Lauck’s Bakery neon sign still hasn’t found a buyer.
It’s not for lack of interest, said Tim Robbins, who bought the sign off the bakery and runs Central Valley Estates and Liquidations with his nephew, Chris Robbins.
The first auction’s web site received more than 240 visits and plenty of people clicked the “watch this item” link on eBay, Tim Robbins said. The bids they got didn’t meet the $900 minimum reserve the sellers had set.
“The thing that’s putting people off is that it is so big and it is hard to move,” he said.
The sign is about 11-feet long and 8-feet wide and weighs somewhere around 800 or 900 pounds, Robbins said.
He’s now hoping to sell the sign for at least $650. He’s talking to a handful of collectors in town who may end up with the sign. But he also says it would be perfect to display in a restaurant, “hopefully in the Tower District.”
