Images of Neon Signs
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Helium
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Neon
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Argon (with Mercury)
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Krypton
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Xenon
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A deteriorated, 1950s era sign typical of Googie architecture; "Ships" was a chain of coffee shops in Los Angeles.
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Original Whitey's Restaurant "EAT" sign in Arlington, VA
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Famous quotes containing the words images, neon and/or signs:
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
—René Magritte (1898–1967)
“A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk.
So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Cows wandered through the streets.... Vegetables grew chiefly in cans, and stream-beds and cañons glittered with these omnipresent signs of civilization.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)