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You learn every day around here that above all, people remember. We learned secondhand about the artistic doings perpetrated by Neon Concepts of Menomonie, Wisconsin, deep in what used to be a...
View ArticleEarl Gilmore, the godfather of all dekotora
If you’re spent any time at all on the Intertubes, I’m sure you’ve seen photos of the dekotora – those brightly lit and garishly decorated trucks in Japan. As David Greenlees showed us recently on The...
View ArticleNeon to light up new exhibit at NHRA Museum
Neon at the RM Dingman auction, 2006. Photo by Daniel Strohl Neon signs and the automobile go way back. While the neon sign was invented in 1910 in Paris, it wasn’t seen in the United States for...
View ArticleChicago, 1954
We’ve seen this photo of Chicago’s Rush Street, taken from an old postcard, all over the Internet, and for good reason: Aside from the wonderful neon (and, for us, the excellent carspotting), many of...
View ArticleLas Vegas, 1959
Nighttime street scenes typically make for more difficult carspotting photos: The dim lighting obscures many a detail, leaving silhouettes and impressions, just barely enough for vague...
View ArticleLas Vegas, 1960s
Las Vegas at night in black and white is cool, but seeing it in color is just glorious sensory overload. A lineup of traffic under those lights just makes it all that better. We recently came across...
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