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Five photos back, you'll see my photo of Golden Donuts......seems like there's one sign designer who is a success with the local doughnut shops!
Grove City (Columbus), Ohio
(Edited to add: the Honey Dip in Columbus also has the same sign style....thanks to Debra Jane Seltzer for pointing that out :-) )
On Niagara Falls Blvd (US 62)
Niagara Falls, NY
The poor pelican is missing most of its neon. We also checked back at night and the sign was not turned on. I'm guessing it doesn't work any more.
And worth noting: there are no pelicans in Niagara Falls lol
out in the far reaches of the mojave national preserve. nikon D7000 + nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VRII. processed in photoshop + nik color efex.
Los Angeles, CA
I read this as "Royale Wilshire" but according to the Los Angeles Conservancy web site, it's the "Wilshire Royale". And, in the past, it was The Arcady.
Great history here. More from the web site:
"Olive Philips, a Los Angeles leader of the anti-liquor Woman's Christian Temperance Union, had the upscale Arcady apartment-hotel built on the site of the Higgins mansion, which was moved down Wilshire to Windsor Square in 1924.
Philips took an apartment herself and advertised the Arcady for people who are accustomed to fine living. A 1928 ad for the Arcady in the Los Angeles Times described deluxe service with "all the work being taken care of by a thoroughly-trained crew of maids, butlers, housemen, pages, valets, laundresses and porters." Rates in 1930 were $5 a day and up for a room and $150 a month for apartments.
The building has since served as a Howard Johnson's hotel and Fifield Manor, a home for elderly members of the First Congregational Church at Lafayette Park."
And it's now the Wilshire Royale -- luxury apartments.
JUNE 2021 UPDATE: I learned some sad news today. This magnificent sign has been removed!
Sadly, this Dunkin' Donuts on US 1 in the Lake Park area of West Palm Beach is no longer a diner/restaurant -- it's just a regular DD donut shop now -- and I'm doubly sad that I didn't get the chance to visit here when it was. Not for lack of opportunity -- I just didn't know it even existed. If I had, we would have been there in a heartbeat. (It's also the first Dunkin' Donuts, apparently, established in Florida.)
For old sign lovers, it's still a must-visit, but you won't be able to get a hot cooked-to-order meal; I settled for a sandwich, a coffee and, of course, a donut.
Here's an article about this location: www.palmbeachpost.com/news/entertainment/dining/a-histori...
West Palm Beach, FL
Glens Falls, NY
Hey -- it's been a while. But I'm getting back into the swing of things. So much catching up to do LOL
You won't be seeing any recent pictures -- the pandemic has curtailed our road trips for now. Here's hoping the roadtripping can resume without too much more delay. But right now, things aren't great here in Ontario and we are under a stay-at-home order. Much patience is required!
Velvia 50 "bleeding neon" lateral film movement trick with Fuji's GW690's T mode. Camera scanned with Sony A7R-IV
QUALITY CHEK’D
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Pentax 6x7 | Rollei CR200 in E6 | Magdalena New Mexico USA
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I really like this film. In 35, but even more in 120. The larger negative calms the grain down just a bit while leaving the far out color signature intact. I know this film is marketed as a stock to cross process in C41. But I love my transparencies too much to ever do that. These colors are why. No Snapseed. No Lightroom CC. Just better living through chemistry. ❤️✨✨
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Apologies to the engineers and scientists at the VLA. Those disturbances felt on November 21, 2018 weren’t frack quakes. Just good old Pentax 6x7 mirror slap💥!
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Fans of pointing their high pixel count macro lens equipped digital cameras at film as an alternative to using conventional scanners: You can see the film grain clearly. I think that answers the resolution question. For color negative work I can’t praise @negativelabpro highly enough. Forget curve tweaks. Inversions in Photoshop. And so on. NLP is the best way I have found, including my $500 copy of Silverfast HDR 8.8.
Saint John, NB
Even though this is in the historic part of Saint John, the sign is not old or vintage, but I really liked it AND I have a dear friend named Britt, so this was simply a must-shoot. We ate here for brunch that day and the food was delicoius!
First opened in 1912, Scotti's Italian Restaurant celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012 (and has kept the banner up!) and is still operated by members of the same family.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Here's a recent restaurant review: www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/dining/2018/03/02/...
US 401
Society Hill, SC
Fabulous old plastic-fantastic sign! The bottom part, hanging below the sign, is extremely faded, but I think it says "soda shop" and below that, "fountain service". And, easier to read, "quality checkd" just above "ice cream".
I did a little online digging regarding Buttercup Ice Cream and found the following, along with some great old photos, at the fb page for "Historic Hamlet, North Carolina":
"The L.A. Corning family came to Hamlet in January of 1920 from Elmira, New York. Mr. Corning had owned a drugstore in Elmira and had experimented with making ice cream. It had done so well, he sold the drugstore and built an ice cream plant. That, in turn, was so successful that a milk products plant bought him out with the condition that he never build another ice cream plant within 500 miles of Elmira. He tried different jobs after that, but his wife could see that he was unhappy so she told him she would move wherever he wanted to go. After some research, he saw that Hamlet had the crossroads of the railroad in the South, so he came down, bought a tract of land from Mrs. Lum Smith near the southbound tracks out of Hamlet, and took a picture of Front Street to take back home to show his family the new town they would be living in. Returning to Hamlet, he built his new ice cream plant and Buttercup Ice Cream was born.
Corning passed away in 1954, but his family continued the business for another fifteen years. With mounting competition, the family sold out to Coastal Dairy Products in 1969 and the name was changed to Mello Buttercup. Coastal continued operations in Hamlet for the next nine years, closing the Hamlet plant in 1977, consolidating operations in its Wilson, NC plant."
Eagle Rock, CA
We spotted this shortly after we left Eagle Rock's Casa Bianca where we had enjoyed a delicious dinner. Of course we had to pull over so I could grab some photos.
Route/US 20
Warsaw, NY
So many establishments have some sort of arrow sign with a star forming part of the sign, whether it's at the top, like this one, or at the bottom where the point of the arrow is turned into a star shape. Sometimes they're neon, sometimes just bulbs. I love them all.
This neon camel captured my attention as we were driving through Lynn, Massachusetts -- unfortunately at a time when we couldn't stop. We returned as soon as we could though -- the very next day. How could I miss the opportunity to shoot this?! Located at 32 Western Avenue, the business appears to be closed, but we were thankful the sign still remains.
Cincinnati, OH
There was just something about the combo of the number 13 and Main Street that appealed to me. Classic, timeless.
Pomona, CA
Built in 1931, the Pomona Fox Theatre in the LA suburb of Pomona is a gorgeous Art Deco gem.
Burlington, ON
Charming old sign with just a wee touch of neon hanging on along the sides when I took this photograph. Sadly, another motel and its sign that are now gone. And what's standing there now? You guessed it -- a condo tower.
Los Angeles, CA
Opened in 1969, this was Los Angeles's first video store. With the wonderful murals painted by Howard Freeman, it was a great looking place. According to their FB page, they had to shut down in May 2020 as the building had been sold and was intended to be demolished -- but they do intend to reopen in a new location.
Wildwood, NJ
I have a night shot of this wonderful old motel here at Flickr (check out my Night Owl album, or of course my New Jersey album) but here's one of the sign on a glorious June day.
Thetford Mines, Quebec
Motel Eve is no more. Yes, it may look like just a strip club, but it was also a motel as well. Behind the delivery truck, the units are visible.
I read online that this motel/strip club -- built in the late 1950s -- was completely demolished in November 2020.
You can see photos of the demolition here:
www.lanouvelle.net/2020/11/17/un-projet-commercial-a-veni...