Circle-P famously means parking in every language. To continue to display the banner in this condition is to perpetrate an urban blight upon the city of Winston-Salem.
According to Google Streetview, the banner was hung sometime between July 2018 and June 2019. It should be removed and not replaced, and the parking garage should be converted to comfortable-yet-inexpensive apartments.
The parking garage was built in 1972, the International Year of "My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry.
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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, on the west side of North Main Street between West 4th Street and West 5th Street.
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