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What better way to remind all of us to practice good dental hygiene than to be taunted by a green tooth?
Title
Signs at Night, Cole's Drugstore and Sherry Biltmore Hotel, Massachusetts Avenue
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: between 1954-1959
Location
Creation location: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 68.29
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001611
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and still hanging.
in 1953, the 'd' in the word 'good' on the east side of the neon sign burnt out. since that time residents in the beaches referred to the golden gate restaurant as the 'goo f'.
before he new owners took over and gentrified the interior, it did have an open kitchen, the waiters barking orders in mandarin and the best combination plates and lime rickey sodas anywhere.
the place is still there, sort of, but the memories still linger.
Photographed from an open topped double decker bus during an evening tour of central Las Vegas, Nevada in the USA.
Just a bar in the Oakland section of PIttsburgh, but wow, seven online reviews include two with 5 stars (calling it A Classic) and five with 1 star (Horrendous Health Hazard, Extremely Dangerous). At least no one argues that the neon sign is cool.
Stopped by Circus Liquor for something to drink and see how much of the old neon clown still lit up.........
Sporting music themed railings and neon as well as scalloped decks and roofline, the Tempo Motel was razed in 2002. The neon sign, argued over by several groups at demo time, supposedly still exists. UPDATE, May 2010. The sign had been lying on a rooftop on Pacific Ave., I recently located it on google earth, before I could find who actually owned it it was cut up and thrown out by someone doing remodeling in the vicinity
La Grande Halle is part of the old livestock market facilities. Its construction was directed by the architect Jules de Merindol assisted Janvier Louis-Adolphe and took four years, from 1863 to 1867.