Allen’s Neon Sign, Southbank, C.1986
The Allen’s sign sat atop the Allen’s Sweets factory, which was located on the south bank of the Yarra River, opposite Flinders Street Station. The sign went through various incarnations over time. The final version involved three different sequences – an advertisement for Anticol cough lozenges, an ad for Kool Mints and a skyrocket starburst.
The sign was popular with the Victorian public, but a public campaign to save it failed, and when the factory was demolished in 1987, sadly, the sign went too.