Vintage neon signs

[LizzieMaine]

"That's a joke, son."

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

"That's a joke, son."

As was my response - I assume all know that even though I forgot to put in the smiley emoji. All meant in light good fun.

That said, I wasn't kidding that donuts seem to be having a foodie "moment." There's a coffee shop near me that now has these twice-normal-sized donuts, with a list (I kid you not) of fillings and toppings: "organic whole wheat donut with Vermont maple syrup filling and apple-smoked bacon bits on top," etc. I have to embarrassingly admit I was intrigued until I saw the $4 price and didn't want my father to come back from the grave and kill me.

 

[Frunobulax]

Hard to differentiate the jokes from the diatribes when the diatribes are so common.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Fading Fast]

Hard to differentiate the jokes from the diatribes when the diatribes are so common.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Fair point - I'm guilty as charged as I do both.

 

[Fading Fast]

The ball and pin (perfect tipping shot) are the stars of this one:

 

[Fading Fast]

Oh yeh,

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[KY Gentleman]

I saw my first “R” rated movie here.
I’ve been a movie fan ever since.

 

[Fading Fast]

I saw my first “R” rated movie here.
I’ve been a movie fan ever since.

What was the R-rated movie you saw?

The first R-rated movie I saw was (← kinda a palindrome) "The Valachi Papers" at age 7 with my - get this - grandmother who loved movies and took me to the ones she wanted to see. I wasn't brought up with any training wheels or protective helmets. Pretty sure that was about the last one we saw together as she was already sick and passed away not that long afterwards.

 

[KY Gentleman]

What was the R-rated movie you saw?.

My older brother took me to see The Kentucky Fried movie. He was a student at UK and The Kentucky Theatre showed that film on a regular basis. I was about 13-14 years old and right after the skit “Catholic High School Girls In Trouble” he instructed me not to tell my mom what movie we saw.

 

[3fingers]

To be clear I can inhale donuts with the best of them, Krispy Kreme is just not at the top of my list of choices.

Rob

I know I've asked this before, but why did we let this go away? Generic plastic sign boards with fluorescent tubes behind them were a poor trade to say the least.

 

[LizzieMaine]

One word: maintenance. I deal with a neon sign on a daily basis, and it's a rare day when there isn't a problem with it, especially in bad weather. Right now we're the "- - R A --" Theatre on one side and the "- - - A - -" Theatre on the other. This is why my hair has turned grey.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

I like the plastic "Shell" station signs, when the "S" is burned out...I always tell the wife, "We're driving into lowercase Hell".


Rob

 

[EngProf]

Both for your sake and mine I wish I had a photo of the sign I saw last night.
On the illuminated board at the local agricultural Co-Op store:
BABY HICKS ARE HERE

So *that's* where they come from...

 

[3fingers]

One word: maintenance. I deal with a neon sign on a daily basis, and it's a rare day when there isn't a problem with it, especially in bad weather. Right now we're the "- - R A --" Theatre on one side and the "- - - A - -" Theatre on the other. This is why my hair has turned grey.

Oh I understand that, but
I guess i was lucky. I had a neon sign at a former job that hung on the side of a building. In 10 years i replaced 1 transformer and resoldered a connection on the GTO wire a couple of times. The only other issue i had was a local junior heathen decided to throw a rock at it and break a letter. His father didn't want to pay for it until he was asked by a police officer to consider the alternatives.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The problem here has a lot to do with the salt air -- any connection that's not thoroughly slathered in protective goo will corrode out in a very short time, especially when you add in the extreme weather. We usually have a letter go sour every couple of years and have to be remade, and the rain and snow cause all kinds of unpredictable outages on top of that.

We still have an old-line neon-bending shop in the state, but the guy who owns it is in his 80s, and it takes a while to get custom work done. I'd think that'd be a good line of work for a young artisitic type to apprentice into -- if I was forty years younger and could still see, I'd look into it myself.

 

[vitanola]

"That's a joke, son."

"and Kenny Delmar tooting the Claghorn..."

 

[KY Gentleman]

 

[BobHufford]