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• • • September 10, 1959 At a public hearing of the Historic Districts Commission held September 10, 1959 in the Selectmen's Room, the Minute Man Cab Co. appeared in regard to a sign they wish to put up on their company offices in Depot Square. Sitting on the Commission were Donald R. Grant, Chairman pro tempore Philip B. Parsons, Edwin B. Worthen, Jr., and Associate Members Charles H. Cole and Carl E. Bryant. Mr. Durkin and another gentleman from the company were present. On November 25, 1958 (issued November 27) this company was granted a certificate of appropriateness to install a new en.• trance doorway, lighting and a carefully- described sign. Orig- inally they thought they would have to take out a window and put the sign in question where the window had been on the side of the building. However, they found they did not have to take out the window and now wish to erect the sign over the door. They there- fore made the letters different in type, now Roman, larger than the letters originally planned, and left off the facsimile of the Minute Man. The main part of the sign is the same, ie., cream background black letters, but is now silhoutted on white and the edges of the sign are red. The Commission explained they had to decide if this was enough like the sign for which permission had been given, so they could approve it, or whether a new hearing would have to be advertised.