... I have found it to be true: "You can find heraldry everywhere!"
In this specific instance, I had taken my lunch time and left the office where I work to walk to a nearby shopping center to see if I could find a couple of Christmas gifts for some family members. And on my way, I passed a new hamburger joint that had recently opened. (The Hopdoddy Burger Bar if you must know. I haven't tried their burgers yet, but I may have to before long.) And on some large panels covering part of the building, interspersed with the name of the Burger Bar and with its logo were this arms-like logo:
By way of some explanation, though the location of this shopping center is a little north of downtown Dallas, it is not "in" Dallas, but in one of two "island" cities (so-called because they are completely surrounded by the City of Dallas) often referred to as the "Park Cities," Highland Park and University Park.
As a logo it is, I suppose, reasonably distinctive. As heraldry, it has some problems. I would blazon the "coat of arms" here as Quarterly, 1, Argent three bars Sable, 2 and 3, Argent plain, and 4, Argent three pallets Sable. (The red banner with the words "Park Cities" is, in my opinion, external to the shield and thus not really a part of the arms. Though I could, and I know of others who might, argue otherwise.)
In any case, I found this another example of being able to find heraldry, or heraldry-like depictions, everywhere, even while walking down the sidewalk on my way to someplace that had nothing to do with heraldry. And how cool is that?
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