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Located in the epicenter of UCLA.
Great food. superior beer.
Great service from wonderful people.
You can't go wrong coming here.
The Fireside used to be a local favorite on the near south side of Indianapolis. I am not sure how long it has been closed though. I did take a look at Google map street view and the sign is still there, but it looked stripped of neon and displayed another business that looked out of business.
Neon Museum
Neon lights of diners and motels have been some of my favorite subjects to photograph over the years, perhaps second only to art museums. Thus, the Neon Museum was the perfect marriage of these disparate interests of mine and was naturally my top pick to visit in Las Vegas.
However, the weather forecast of successive days of blistering heat plus boring cloudless sky almost made me can the whole idea. Thanks to my intrepid old med school classmates, they dragged me along with them and made it all come true.
To add drama to my story, the Neon Museum reception desk greeted me with a warning sign saying that cameras other than those in mobile phones are not allowed on the premises. I was really pissed when I had to surrender my camera and my tripod. Maybe I wasn't as lucky as I believed I was.
My frustration spurred me to transform challenges into opportunities. So, it soon became a pivotal moment for me to test and hopefully prove that fundamental tenet in photography: The best camera is the one that's with you.
I was never able to capture an image of this neon sign with all eleven elements illuminated at the same time and with developers taking over at the end of the month, I never will.
January 31st, 2025 will see the end of the Filmores Gentleman's Club and its iconic display of neon.
Menkes Developments will replace the club with what else, a condo.
The name chosen is 'Elektra Condominiums'. This just might be an homage to the stripper of the same name in the 1959 musical ' Gypsy' reprised in 2024....or it just might be a bad joke.
It looks like someone painted this old relic along IN 15. It was bad in my original 2008 shot and worse just a couple of years ago. The restaurant has been closed for at least 25 years.
As I was closing the bookshop and putting it to bed for the night, I had turned off most of the lights, but hadn't turned off the neon sign with our motto ("we read after our bedtimes"). I liked the way it looked, but I didn't have the tripod with me, so I sat the camera on tables and books to steady it and crossed my fingers.