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I went to the neighborhood strip center to Redbox a movie from the Walgreen's and to scope out some neon signs for the November Assignment.
This store's signs advertised "Gyrotonic Massages", which I still don't know what that means.
You'd think SOMEBODY in the provincial capital would
be trying to do SOMETHING to restore this classic neon
sign to its original glory!
I've only been able to photograph this sign while sitting on a Greyhound bus to/from St. Louis, two trips now!
Title
Symbols - Nighttime, Bottle - Whiskey Advertisement, "The Best in the House" Neon Sign with Lit Clock Face above Lit Display Windows, Harvard Street
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, 73.06
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_001870
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Photographed from an open topped double decker bus during an evening tour of central Las Vegas, Nevada in the USA.
"...continuously served by four generations of the Zagona family since 1938."
434 N 4th Ave, Tucson, AZ
An Ann Arbor News Photo, undoubtedly by Eck Stanger -- from the Ann Arbor District Library's OLD NEWS website.
The "Neon Signs" business, and the Ann Arbor Fluff Rug Co., together occupied what is now Ann Arbor's oldest commercial building, which had been erected in 1834 by Anson Brown, onetime Ann Arbor Postmaster, and the activist kingpin of "Lower Town" Ann Arbor -- the portion that lies north of the Huron River -- also long known as the Fifth Ward. That building is now occupied by the the St. Vincent dePaul resale store, which has been there for decades.
The four-story building attached to it in 1937 had had its windows removed in anticipation of a drastic remodeling that removed the two upper floors. In the mid-19th century this had been the Medical Works Building, owned by the clairvoyant physician, Dr. Daniel B. Kellogg. It is a pity that the upper floors were lost, because there were rumors in town, no longer susceptible to confirmation, that Kellogg had a system of speaking tubes and wires concealed in the walls, that could be manipulated by his relatives to simulate ringing bells and ghost messages -- designed to satisfy the doctor's clients that he was in two-way communication with the Spirit World.
Dr. Kellogg's advertisement in the 1872 Ann Arbor City Directory: www.flickr.com/photos/70251312@N00/5906585871/
Steve Stricklen, 64, tells me that Wurster Dairy (at right) went bankrupt in 1938, and that his parents took over the building, which became the HQ of their Cloverleaf Dairy. In 1966, Stricklen's father told him to remove the building's false front (visible here), which was coming apart. (The front had been constructed for Wurster Dairy "on the cheap" by a contractor named Hilbert. It lent a cachet of modernism to the building, which had been a homely-looking automobile repair garage.) The Dairy building is now the location of the Northside Grill -- successor to the Cloverleaf Lunch, which moved to the NE corner of Liberty and Fourth Avenue.
[September 2012].
I have no idea if this is even close to being old, but nowhere around it was something even resembling a "Dairy Way."
This building was made famous by Billy Wilder in his "Sunset Boulevard." Still standing at the top of Ivar Street in Hollywood, CA.