A few months ago, I chronicled my dining escapade at Sherri’s Diner, 704 S.W. 59th Street, lavishing high praise on their home-cooked cornbread and peach cobbler. I also made mention of their flea-market collection of used metal signage that covers the walls, inside and out, some of them I’m sure fetching a demeaning price from big-city garbage pickers.
But I guess neighborhood thieves weren’t too happy with the lack of offers, because a recently stolen metal Royal Crown Cola sign was found abandoned “on the ground somewhere” in Oklahoma City. Now, thankfully, it is back where it belongs—or it soon will be—on the pink brick walls of Sherri’s Diner.