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Skipping Girl Vinegar Factory and Neon

From a series of non-polluting (So safe to plop next to Residential and Commercial like real life) Industrial RICO buildings for your City Centre/Downtown Fabric District or light industrial fringe, based on buildings in Melbourne CBD, Australia

Probably my favourite asset out of the series, an art deco moderne factory with neon sign that lights up at night

Skipping Girl brand vinegar was produced by the Nycander & Co, established by Swedish immigrant and prominent bacteriologist, Oscar Emile Nycander (1859-1927), who established Australia's first yeast manufactory and vinegar brewery. The large Nycander factory housed 17 fermentation vats, each with a capacity of 35,000 gallons.

The sign was designed in 1936 for the Nycander factory premises by artist Jim Minogue (who would go on to build the Nylex Clock in 1961), employed by Electric Signs, later called Whitewall Neon, then Claude Neon (after Georges Claude). As was usual practice, Electric Signs built and operated the sign, for which Nycander paid an annual rent. The sign advertising their "Skipping Girl" brand of vinegar was immediately popular, becoming a well loved landmark.

The origin of the connection between vinegar and a skipping girl is a skipping rhyme, usually "salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper, if I dare, I can do better..." to which the rope would be spun faster. In 1938, the company promoted its product with a girls' skipping competition.


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