At this time, the sign and statue remain in place.
According to Arnold Stalk, the planning and development consultant for the property owner, whatever is developed on the property of the Blue Angel Motel, which was torn down a few years ago, will have to be built around the sign.
"It's got a whole structural column that goes very deep into the ground into footings, so it's going to remain standing there as a landmark," he explained.
The 35-foot-tall statue that has kept watch over the neighborhood for decades also used to turn 360 degrees, so presumably some of that equipment (cogs and gears and pulleys) is still also buried.
Meanwhile, t’s almost a certainty that if the time does come for the Blue Angel to be taken down, it will wind up as a preservation project of the Neon Museum, which is monitoring the situation.
Anyone who’s interested can read past coverage in QoDs on December 9, 2014, and April 11, 2013.
The whole story of the Blue Angel herself, along with the last days of the motel and related literary non-fiction, are in our book My Week at the Blue Angel by Matt O’Brien (author of the highly acclaimed Beneath the Neon).
