The Neon King of New Orleans

56 points
1/21/1970
3 days ago
by renameme

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vgeek

The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati (https://www.americansignmuseum.org/) is good if you like neon and advertising. They have an on site shop where you can view repairs being performed.

The Boneyard in Las Vegas is also worth seeing. It was featured in one of the Danny DeVito scenes in Mars Attacks.

3 days ago

vintagedave

If you're on the other side of the pond, I recommend Warsaw's Neon Museum: https://www.neonmuzeum.org/english

It focuses on Cold War era (gently phrased, ie the Soviet occupation) neon signage, and they're rescued a huge number of small to gigantic signs that made up Poland's visual landscape.

But I most appreciate trying to keep a record, a visual interactive record, of something present in cities that I hadn't even realised was silently vanishing. My favorite coffee mug is from that museum with a picture of the Kino Kosmos logo -- more locally, the Kosmos cinema in Tallinn closed recently and I feel its loss too.

3 days ago

soco

If you happen to go to London, check Gods Own Junkyard: https://www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk/ for neon galore (and craft beer)

3 days ago

bcraven

And https://www.neonworkshops.com/ of you're further north (Wakefield).

They even run courses in creating your own pieces.

3 days ago

danstocker114

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3 days ago

aaron695

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3 days ago

HoldOnAMinute

"Garden and Gun"? Is this a parody?

3 days ago

zhivota

They claim average household income of their readership is $550k, which for a magazine for the South is, wow. They're really targeting the regional top 1% there.

3 days ago

walrus01

Basically a southern American version of the same demographic that will buy a GBP 18,000 side by side shotgun in the UK.

3 days ago

buescher

No.

3 days ago