The two continued to reinforce the display each year, adding additional lights and stronger aluminum piping, sometimes with help from other family members and friends.

In 2007, The Oregonian's Anna Griffin wrote, "Up close, the display seems surprisingly fragile: the martini glass is just a thin piece of tubing dotted with white bulbs.

Cooke also constructed a red slash, which appears across the martini glass near closing time, as requested by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

He not only switched it to LED, he also upgraded the glass's design, creating a deeper and wider bowl to better match the proportion of the stem.

[4] In 2007, Anna Griffin of The Oregonian wrote: "Over the years, various people have read various meanings into the oversized and ornately lit martini glass that beams down over Portland each holiday season.

[2] In 2017, Atlas Obscura's Cara Giaimo called the sign a "beloved landmark" and wrote, "The giant libation had been a fixture of the holiday landscape for decades, but went dark in 2012 after the property was sold to an architect, who tore it down along with the rest of the house.