Vintage neon signs

[1mach1]

That sucks so much Harv. Springfield (MO) loves a chain restaurant as well. I remember the excitement when Chili's came to town. That love meant that long-time icons like Hamby's Steak House eventually went out (and is now a parking lot). This place had the best blue plate specials and pies. And the rolls ... oh, the rolls. We're starting to see a move towards more local independent restaurants, but it is sad to think of what we lost due to the standardization of America.

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I would eat at that steak house any day of the week Bob! Gentrification of the restaurant scene is sad. Places like Chili's, Ruby Tuesdays, Fridays, Applebys, you name the abomination. They all serve high calories food without flavor. I know we have discussed Truck Stop Restaurants in the past. I remember when that was the best place on the highway you could eat a meal. Sad to see that all disappear for food that is the same price, but a way lower grade. Dammit. [emoji35]

 

[Fading Fast]

Not only for a choice of your favorite ice cream dish, but for one of those hamburgers too!

Oh yeh, burger, fries, ice-cream - a good day in America.

 

[Fading Fast]

Light anything can go take a hike. (Except for Diet Coke, which I have been drinking since the age of 13, due to my parents refusal to by anything else. I do love it, and rarey drink any other soda but DC. It just taste better to me than regular Coke. Right @FadingFast ? )

You'll get my Diet Coke when you pry from my cold, dead...

 

[dh66]

And speaking of which....

Not vintage, but 80s for sure.

It's still hard for me to wrap my brain around it too, Harv, but now days 80s IS vintage.

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[vintage.vendeuse]

Illuminating the kielbasa factory in Hamtramck, Michigan (a city located completely within the confines of Detroit) since the 1940s:

 

[Fading Fast]

As a teenager / young adult growing up in NJ, going to Atlantic City - when it was the only casino alternative to Vegas - was something you did. You headed north to NYC, east to the shore or south AC. In AC, you had the casinos, the honky tonk boardwalk, the racetrack (thoroughbreds) and concerts.

Coming back, about an hour outside of AC and with two more hours to go, this was the place to stop as AC (at least back then) didn't have great food places, so by the time you got here, you were starving. It's a classic NJ diner (with great breakfast foods, wonderful steak fries, huge and rich sticky buns [took some extra for the ride and next day] and massive pies, if memory serves).

If AC wasn't such an armpit today, I'd love to get down there with super girlfriend (she's never been to AC) in part to show her this diner, but that is a heck of a long trip for not much more than seedy AC and a diner.

 

[1mach1]

As a teenager / young adult growing up in NJ, going to Atlantic City - when it was the only casino alternative to Vegas - was something you did. You headed north to NYC, east to the shore or south AC. In AC, you had the casinos, the honky tonk boardwalk, the racetrack (thoroughbreds) and concerts.

Coming back, about an hour outside of AC and with two more hours to go, this was the place to stop as AC (at least back then) didn't have great food places, so by the time you got here, you were starving. It's a classic NJ diner (with great breakfast foods, wonderful steak fries, huge and rich sticky buns [took some extra for the ride and next day] and massive pies, if memory serves).

If AC wasn't such an armpit today, I'd love to get down there with super girlfriend (she's never been to AC) in part to show her this diner, but that is a heck of a long trip for not much more than seedy AC and a diner.

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Good point. Looks and sounds like a great place. Im with you, AC is no destination. For anyone. Ever.

Well, not for anyone I know anyway.

 

[Fading Fast]

Garbage pail above the "junk" sign (okay execution) + the gratuitous unmatched bulbs on the outer border = not a bad crazy sign

 

[1mach1]

Closed in 2004, but the sign remains, and was restored in 2015. Portsmouth, NH

 

[Fading Fast]

Closed in 2004, but the sign remains, and was restored in 2015. Portsmouth, NH

"I want big, I want neon, I want a giant whale with a blowhole, I want his tail to move, I want a huge water spout, I want waves and bulbs - I want it all!"

"It will cost a lot."

"I don't care - I want my big flashy sign, the kids can go to state schools."

 

[1mach1]

"I want big, I want neon, I want a giant whale with a blowhole, I want his tail to move, I want a huge water spout, I want waves and bulbs - I want it all!"

"It will cost a lot."

"I don't care - I want my big flashy sign, the kids can go to state schools."

 

[Fading Fast]

While I applaud the effort - a big giant shirt on a dry cleaner's sign - somehow the execution doesn't really work IMHO.

 

[1mach1]

While I applaud the effort - a big giant shirt on a dry cleaner's sign - somehow the execution doesn't really work IMHO.

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I agree about the shirt. But I do dig that green bow tie!

 

[3fingers]

While I applaud the effort - a big giant shirt on a dry cleaner's sign - somehow the execution doesn't really work IMHO.

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While not the best execution by any means, it beats the tar out of a crappy faded plastic sign board stuck on the front of the building with some half working fluorescent tubes behind it. And like Mach1, I dig the green bowtie.

 

[Fading Fast]

1) Elvis, 2) Timely tie-in to our TV thread and 3) see #1:

Looks like some serious neon work went into Humpty Dumpty himself.

Also, I love "the heck with the Boys From Marketing" approach - what do we serve: Good Food.

 

[1mach1]

1) Elvis, 2) Timely tie-in to our TV thread and 3) see #1:

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Looks like some serious neon work went into Humpty Dumpty himself.
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Also, I love "the heck with the Boys From Marketing" approach - what do we serve: Good Food.

I'd stay and eat there. Its "modern" [emoji14]

 

[Ghostsoldier]

One I picked up on a trip to Tybee Island, Georgia this weekend.

Rob

 

[1mach1]

One I picked up on a trip to Tybee Island, Georgia this weekend.

Rob

Thats a good one. Posted that on my Instagram. A few years back.

 

[Fading Fast]

Another not-small-invoice sign.

And it looks to me as if chef is wearing spats - nice detail for a neon sign.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Yeah, the last time I was through that part of the county, the actual Williams restaurant was still there, and open...I see now, sadly, that it has been razed.

I never had a chance to stop and eat. [emoji22]

Thats a good one. Posted that on my Instagram. A few years back.

Rob