Icon.
Websters's defines it as "emblem" or a "symbol."
Not really what I had in mind.
I consider an icon something that becomes bigger than itself, that starts to represent something more than it appears.
We are losing icons here in Delaware County.
Recently we saw two more reach the end of the line.
Last week it was Joseph D. Doubet jewelry store, which has held fort on State Street in Media for decades.
This week, just a few miles farther out Baltimore Pike, we got word that the Riddle Ale House will close its doors forever soon.
Icons.
Yep, I think they both qualify.
We salute these two institutions on today's editorial page.
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