From Curbed: " There may be no designer who’s left so deep an imprint on downtown Austin as the antiques dealer turned neon restorer turned neon artist Evan Voyles.".Upstate in Albany, it's lights-out for one of New York State's greatest storefront signs as Lombardo's Italian Restaurant, a south-side landmark for more than 100 years, closed at the end of 2018.Meanwhile, from the SHORPY blog, a look at some old signs across the USA - before they were old:.> Updates on theatres, car dealers and "ship buildings" As she puts it, "what shall we conclude from all this devastation?" Here are direct links to a few of a dozen or so entries she's posted in this series over the past month or so. The inimitable Debra Jane Seltzer has been status-checking the historic signs and roadside architecture she's photographed across the country, and the state of our old signs is not good.> An appreciation of surviving vintage drugstore neon in Brooklyn and Manhattan > An homage to the late great Chock-Full-O-Nuts coffee shop chain and its bygone New York storefronts. From the wonderful Ephemeral NY blog, the following:.Alas, if you missed it, you missed it: it was quickly ruined upon seeing the light of day. Not neon but still fantastically cool: via the Uni-Watch blog, in East Midwood, a great midcentury porcelain enamel storefront was recently unearthed with the removal of newer signage."Neon Lights Making a Comeback as Smaller Businesses Desire Unique Signs" - a nice write-up by Scripps Networks reporter Chris Welch on the output of neon shops today.Another part resurfaced recently on eBay and has now been installed at the McHale's reboot a few blocks from the original. Part of the old sign turned up at Emmett O'Lunney's on 51st Street. The original bar, at 46th and 9th, had been a favorite neon landmark before it closed around 15 years ago. The old McHale's Bar sign has resurfaced, appropriately enough, at McHale's Bar in Hell's Kitchen.Still more crappy news? You bet! Jolson's Liquors in Astoria Queens will become a Taco Bell. What will become of its great sign is still TBD but we can guess. And still more crappy news, also via Vanishing NY: the dead husk of Union Square's old Coffee Shop will become a bank.The sign hung on a few years longer but has now joined New York's silent neon majority. DeRobertis closed in 2015 after 110 years in business. From the RIP department, via the Vanishing NY blog: DeRobertis' Pastry Shoppe's relic sign on First Ave is gone daddy gone.The White Horse Tavern, one of New York's most venerated neon landmarks, has closed and re-opened amidst a controversial ownership change.If you missed it, the good news is that the organizers are looking forward to a third annual installation set for April 2020. The three day event featured presentations by neon practitioners, historians and enthusiasts from across the country, as well as walking tours and shop visits. The neon highlight of the past few months has to have been this year's second-annual Neon Speaks symposium out in San Francisco at the end of April 2019, hosted by San Francisco Neon.
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