Iconic South Charleston Sign taken down for new business (fit in, 2015)

[Chriscross309]

The Charleston Gazette | Iconic South Charleston paint can comes down

The Giant Paint Can has always been a part of my childhood memories, and I hate to see it go. But it is nice that a new business is coming to that building and bringing more jobs and customers to downtown S.C.

[pknopp]

I don't know about "refashioning" it. It was a cool old sign that fit in well with the neighboring area and it is too bad it came down.

I would have left it as a new business. It was a bit of a landmark that one could have used in advertisements.

[mensaguy]

I went down and watched them take the paint can down. (I even got interviewed by a TV station.) Ferguson Waterworks bought the building. Somebody had suggested donating the paint can to the South Charleston Interpretative Center down the street, but the company owners decided that they wanted to rework it into a water pipe with water flowing out and put it back on the building.

It's in the warehouse now where it will be refurbished.