Winston Carter
Practically Family
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Sandy's Hamburgers. Austin, Tx. Since 40's.
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Vintage neon signs
- Thread starter Blackthorn
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This looks like the design for a neon fish might have been reworked to be a neon rocket ship:
Ghostsoldier
Call Me a Cab
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I wanna ride my bicycle....
Rob
Rob
Winston Carter
Practically Family
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Mission Drive In Theatre. San Antonio, Tx. Since 1948 still open.
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And kudos to the promotional brains that came up with the movie tie-in for all those awesome trucks.
2jakes
I'll Lock Up
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"Happy Trails"
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2jakes
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Ghostsoldier
Call Me a Cab
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Rob
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Kudos for creativity - not a done-a-hundred-times-before sign:
2jakes
I'll Lock Up
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Nice....although not sure what that white stuff on the ground is.
2jakes
I'll Lock Up
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A 1939 photo of Hollywood and Vine. The Brown Derby sign is visible in the middle.
Via Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.
Sign restored.
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Nice....although not sure what that white stuff on the ground is.
"Cool comfortable spacious hostesses..."
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
2jakes
I'll Lock Up
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"Cool comfortable spacious hostess"
- Title: Roseland Hostesses
- Date: 1943-01
- Physical Dimensions: B/W NEGATIVE
- Subject Keywords: 1940s, Roseland, Hostesses, 1940s
- Publisher: TimeLife
LizzieMaine
Bartender
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Good lord. Tucker Carlson, Arianna Huffington, James Carville and Anderson Cooper are actually playing Radio City Music Hall? Roxy is oscillating severely in his grave. It's the modern incarnation of Fink's Mules.
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Something isn't right here. I'm guessing at some point, this was a cool Tiki place with the clean looking (and boring) "cocktails" sign having been put in later. The original sign was probably darn cool:
Also not sure what's going in here -were's the bar / cocktail lounge? But at least it has a Tiki / Polynesian theme:
Also not sure what's going in here -were's the bar / cocktail lounge? But at least it has a Tiki / Polynesian theme:
Ghostsoldier
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Rob
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Rob
⇧ Very much a SGF and my type of place. Shame they are all fading away nowadays.
NYC lost one to a fire a few years back - an odd combination (and a quirky architectural mess of a place) of coffee shop/diner, slightly nicer room for "dining" and a solid if oddly located bar.
Now it's a boring condo tower fully sold out to Chinese and Russian investors which sits empty as the buyers were just looking to stash money out of their one-party countries.
This:
Then this:
And now (yawn) this:
Huh. "We build big apartment on this lot. You sell to us, yes?"
"Ah, no thank you."
"Too bad place burn down, you sell lot to us we build big apartment, yes?"
"OK"
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Ghostsoldier
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Rob
