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Atlantic Monthly
Signs of the Times
September, 2006 - Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle neon artists aim to create a buzz with their wine-jug furnishings
July 27, 2006 - Wine snobs turn their noses up at it. Your gramps loved it. When you were young and broke and looking for a cheap buzz, you might have knocked back a bottle or two yourself. Ah, yes. Carlo Rossi's wine in a jug. What can we say about it? Well, it's certainly affordable (as in $10.99 for a 4-liter jug)...
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Seattle Times
City lights: Two men pursue their passion to save Seattle's neon
Februrary 26, 2004 - By day, they can look almost invisible, colorlessly blending into the side of an upholstery store, a hotel rooftop, a funeral chapel, a neighborhood dive. But as soon as the sun goes down -- and the lights go up -- they come alive, beckoning to all with a thousand and one seductive messages: Hot Coffee...
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Seattle Times
Seattle's best neon
Februrary 26, 2004 - From the Edgewater "E" that has guided mariners to Seattle's port for decades to the "R" that went flying off the Roosevelt Hotel's roof during the Inaugural Day storm of 1993, signs tell stories. Here are a few that will be featured in an upcoming guided tour led by the Museum of History & Industry...
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Photo by: Mike Kane / P-I
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From left, lead fabricator Jaime Zaretsky and president Jay Blazek.
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