The Neon King of New Orleans

(gardenandgun.com)

55 points | by renameme 1 day ago

4 comments

  • vgeek 20 hours ago
    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.

    • vintagedave 15 hours ago
      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.

  • soco 1 day ago
    If you happen to go to London, check Gods Own Junkyard: https://www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk/ for neon galore (and craft beer)
  • aaron695 23 hours ago
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  • HoldOnAMinute 23 hours ago
    "Garden and Gun"? Is this a parody?
    • zhivota 21 hours ago
      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.
      • walrus01 20 hours ago
        Basically a southern American version of the same demographic that will buy a GBP 18,000 side by side shotgun in the UK.
    • buescher 23 hours ago
      No.