Is it adiós to Tío Pepe?

Source: Bjorn Laczay (Wikipedia)

Madrid's neon knight upstaged by new Apple store Famous

Tío Pepe sign faces uncertain future as technology giant moves into building where it has stood for 75 years

One of Spain's most iconic images, the huge Tío Pepe neon sign that glows above Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square, has been shoved aside at the same time as a more recent force in global brand names – Apple – moves into the building that houses it.

The red and white neon figure of Tío Pepe, a guitar-toting sherry bottle dressed in an Andalucian-style short jacket and sombrero, has blinked at Madrid visitors for three-quarters of a century.

Source: Guardian

Vocabulary:

to upstage -

a sign -

to face (an uncertain future) -

an image -

huge (adj) -

to glow -

to shove aside -

a brand name -

guitar-toting -

to blink -

dictatorship (n) -

to loom -

coy (adj) -

a licence -

a firm -

a landmark -

iron (n) -

to gut (a building) -

a warehouse -

to be due to -

to spoil -

to go out (lights) -

a cull -

a commercial hoarding -

Will you miss the Tío Pepe sign?