Vintage neon signs

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[BobHufford]

Springfield, Missouri. 1930s.

Same neighborhood today:

 

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⇧ The older architecture is so much more engaging, IMO of course.

 

[3fingers]

Springfield, Missouri. 1930s.

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Buck and a half for a room. Where will it end?

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[BobHufford]

Tower Theatre, Oklahoma City.

Still around...

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Try that Long Bob today.

Rob

 

[BobHufford]

Kansas City.

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[Ghostsoldier]

Noir.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Chief Steam Heat.

Rob

 

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Chief Steam Heat.

Rob

Everything is period perfect: the Chief, the "steam heat," the car, the woman (her dress), the dog and the mailbox.

How much do you want to see that sign on at night?

 

[Frunobulax]

Everything is period perfect: the Chief, the "steam heat," the car, the woman (her dress), the dog and the mailbox.

How much do you want to see that sign on at night?

She looks thrilled to be having her picture taken.

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

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She looks thrilled to be having her picture taken.

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Agreed and that's part of what makes it period perfect. Today's culture is a look-at-me culture that texts / Tweets / reports on Instagram / sends pics of everything it does to the point that documenting what it is doing is sometimes more important than the experience itself.

The depression generation, a meaningful subset of it anyway (and I'm grossly over generalizing here, as I did in the prior sentence), was about doing and found "showing" unnecessary and unserious. My material grandmother died before I was born, but her appearance has a strong echo of that woman sitting on the curb (dress, too). My mom said she was a good person who had had a hard life that wore her down - common of the period - and that having her picture taken was far from her favorite thing.

 

[3fingers]

That woman could easily be my maternal grandmother. My granddad loved to take pictures of their travels and he would put her in them. She wasn't a particularly nice person to begin with and photography did not hide that fact in the least.

 

[2jakes]

Happy Valentine

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Praise the Lard.

Rob

 

[2jakes]

 

[LizzieMaine]

Praise the Lard.

Rob

I wonder if I could get a reservation for the upper room?