The Museum of Neon Art will open its Pomona storage warehouse, housing 250 to 300 enormous pieces, to visitors on July 9. The collection is rarely open to the public.
— went there after he’d had dental surgery and because of that the owner, Bob Cobb, chopped the salad up really fine for him.This sign comes from a bar in Oakland called the Hofbrau. The estimate is that it was made sometime between 1950 and ’59, but one of the interesting things about this sign is it used to be another sign. When we took it apart to wire it up, we found that inside the sign is housings for another sign.
This particular sign is pretty iconic — it was visible from the 5 and 91 freeways. It’s very sentimental for people who went to as kids. It’s a marker of a really significant, more than 100-year-old theme park that was one of the first in the U.S.The Western Motel is pretty notable. In terms of the aesthetic value and technical value, if you look at it, you’ll notice there’s different sizes of neon tubing. The thick neon tubing is very hard to bend. Also, this motel was inso you wouldn’t necessarily think lasso and cows and all that.
This is from ‘70-’79. It’s a hybrid sign in that it has neon and back-lit plastic. Especially now, neon can coexist with many different types of signage. And we’re seeing this renaissance of neon art and signage now. Because, I think, people are more interested now in things that are made by hand. The retro aesthetic and the vintage aesthetic. It’s not either or — we live in this world where everything can coexist.Sunday, July 9, 3-7 p.m.
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