"The Club Royal" 1997-2004 In “Time in a Bottle”

In “Time in a Bottle” the first GTO I ever painted reflects the influence of Detroit’s Woodward Avenue

I had a detailed painting

The Flying A Ethyl Gasoline sign was from a photo of a billboard found at a swap meet

Because this edition was intended in part to celebrate Wil’s retirement as manager of the Corvette Assembly Plant

"The Club Royal" 1997-2004 In “Time in a Bottle”The neon sign of Kansas Citys Club Royal, which closed in the 1980s, cast an intriguing shadow above the front door. The second floor windows, however, were most interesting with the juxtaposition of storage items and the collapsed Venetian blinds on the right. The entire front wall of the original building was disassembled, then reassembled during redevelopment, and still remains on Main Street although the signage is gone.