{"id":6164,"date":"2011-09-09T19:16:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T00:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2011-09-09T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T00:29:18","slug":"nobscot-landmark-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/09\/09\/business\/nobscot-landmark-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobscot Landmark Disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - On Saturday, September 3rd, (2011), I was shooting photos of the Classic Car Cruise-in at CJ's Northside Grill, and decided to take some photos of a few other things near Nobscot's Water Street \/ Edgell Road \/ Edmands Road intersection.<\/p>\n

After shooting photos of the boarded up gas station, the old meeting hall, the vacant Jiffy Lube<\/em> building, I was driving through the Nobscot Shopping Center parking lot, and decided to get out of the car and shoot a few photos of the shopping center.<\/p>\n

The last few I took were of the big sign in the middle of the parking lot.\u00a0 I even went as far as lining up the shots to block out the light poles and other obstructions and get \"just the sign<\/em>\".<\/p>\n

\"FRAMINGHAM,<\/a>

This photo, shot on September 3, 2011 may be the last photo ever taken of the landmark Nobscot Shopping Center sign in Framingham, MA.<\/p><\/div>\n

They may be the last photos anyone ever took of that sign.<\/p>\n

This afternoon at 4:00p.m., (Friday, September 9th, 2011), after I dropped my daughter off at work, I was headed back down Water Street and noticed \"something missing\" -- the sign was gone. All that remains is the white concrete base and the shrubbery planted in it -- and even that had been hacked up<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Nobscot<\/a>

At 4:00pm, on Friday, September 9, 2011 all that remained of the former Nobscot Shopping Center sign was the concrete base.<\/p><\/div>\n

Strange, that amid all the controversy about the run-down strip mall in the past week that the owners would decide to remove a sign which has stood as a landmark in Nobscot for more than half a century.<\/p>\n

I've left a voice mail message for Mark Klaman of\u00a0Centercorp Retail Properties, (his company owns the shopping center)<\/em>, and also left a message for Framingham Selectman Dennis Giombetti -- but it was late, and a Friday, so I have not heard back from either of them (yet)<\/em>...<\/p>\n

Updates to this \"mystery\" will be posted in the comment section below.<\/p>\n

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