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vintage nighttime vegas neon signage on fremont street. this is one continuous 36-exposure roll of film, shot once to the end, then carefully rewound and then double-exposed. i intentionally staggered the first and second exposures so the frames would overlap and create a seamless effect. read it left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
nikon n90s + 28-105mm. expired scotch chrome 640T, double-exposed, cross-processed in C-41. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: nikon coolscan 5000. EXIF tags: filmtagger.
view it full-screen to see the detail. the original file, unresized for flickr, is over 40,000 pixels wide.
St Augustine, FL
UPDATE: I just learned today (Sept 3/21) that this wonderful motel closes in December, and will then be torn down. Folks, if you're nearby and have the chance, now's the time to get your photographs. Soon, it'll be gone.
I have seen photographs of this sign at night and it is spectacular. Love the bunnies coming out of the top hat -- night and day! Timing prevented me from getting a night shot but I made sure I got a daytime photograph. As you can probably tell from this photo, the rain started very soon after I shot this.
Montreal, Quebec
We have a Steve's Music store here in Toronto and the signage is almost identical, so I suspect they're related/affiliated. I loved the rusty old double neon arrow at the bottom of the sign.
One of my favourite signs on US Route 19! The sign may be busted up a bit, but when we've been by during the seasons they're open (i.e. not winter), they're always busy.
Hadley, PA
Pasadena, CA -- Everywhere you go in Los Angeles, you find great neon. Even some of the apartment buildings have wonderful old neon!
La Delice Pastry Shop is a family-run bakery that has been in business since 1935. This #momandpop bakery's three-layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream was made famous on Tina Fey’s skit on Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl last night when she said. “I would urge people this Saturday, instead of participating in screaming matches and potential violence, find a local business you support, maybe a Jewish-run bakery or an African-American bakery. Order a cake with an American flag on it and just eat it." The cake 🍰eaten by @tina_fey_official was created by @ladelicepastryshop. Analog photo from 2004 and our interview with the 2nd-generation owner of this #bakery appear in our book "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York". #storefront #signgeeks #lettering #dailytype #signcollective #everything_signage #ig_signage #typography #typevstime #weekendupdate #sheetcaking #sheetcakingisagrassrootsmovement
Shot in 2016, this is the same sign as my previous photo (linked below), just shot at night and from the other side. I would have preferred to have taken lots of shots of this sign at night, but when we pulled up, with the windows down, we could hear a loud fight going on. Not wanting to call attention to myself in what might have been an uncomfortable situation, I shot quickly without getting out of the car and off we drove.
LOL
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Eagle Rock, CA
Augusta, GA
We were heading north on US 25 in Georgia and when we got into Augusta, I spied this -- looks like a repurposed Maryland Fried Chicken sign to me. According to info I gleaned online, Jack's has closed, so the fate of this sign is, I guess, unknown.
"And another fractured place with a cracked swimming pool and broken windows, its rusted sign, CRESENT MOTEL, the more pathetic for being misspelled." Paul Theroux, writing about his experience in Allendale, SC, in his excellent travel book, "Deep South", highlighting his numerous road trips in the southern United States.
I have been fortunate to also travel through Allendale SC and witnessed the sights that troubled him as they did me. Indeed, we've been up and down US 301. I took this photo in Allendale on one of those journeys.
It's been way too long since I've been to Spartanburg; I need to get back to see what's changed and what's still surviving.
Spartanburg, SC
the now closed frontier motel along old route 66 in the arizona desert. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G.
Ghost sign spotted at the corner of Queen Street East and Coady Avenue, above the Edjan Convenience Store.
Toronto, ON
Plymouth, NC
I went down an internet rabbit hole and spent way too much time trying to determine the initials in this ghost sign that precede "Darden".
After reading more about the town and the Darden family than I had ever intended, I have come to the conclusion that the initials are MG, standing for Millard Graham Darden. The first half of the M has been erased by time but it's the only answer that fit both what I had read and the actual sign.
Candlelight III Bar has everything an #abandoned #storefront should have! Plenty of #rust, a great #vintage #sign completele with #script lettering and #graffiti on its pull-down gate. We are not sure why this closed but imagine it might have something to do with the gentrification of the neighborhood. #signage #signgeeks #font #typography #type #typevstime #tv_retrotype #gas_food_lodging #ipulledoverforthis #rustlord_texturaunique #80sixd #trb_ipoft_signs
On Colorado Blvd (Route 66)
Pasadena, CA
The neon arrow down the right side of the sign is a little hard to see on a sunny day.
Clinton, TN
This is not the first photo of Clinton's Ritz Theatre I have here on Flickr; there are others (have a peek in my "it's show time" album or my "tennessee" album to find them easily).
It's very photogenic. From the cracked Open sign you see at the bottom of the photo to the bulbs and neon (with much of it missing), it's quite a gem.
From the Cinema Treasures web site:
"The Ritz Theatre was located on the town square across from the Court House. It opened in 1945 and closed as a movie theatre in 1969. It was reopened again in 1972 and housed the Red Speeks Country Music Show which was a local radio show. It was closed again in 1987.
In 2000 it was cleaned up, remodeled and reopened featuring movies and live performances. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998."