Frigidaire neon sign
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strongenough78
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I wonder how quickly Robert snagged that one up!
I love neon. That is definitely one of a kind.
I have/had some neon. Had a great piece from one of our defunct travel agencies. It had a large sun with sunglasses over blue waves with 2 palm trees on it. I was planning on putting in up in my basement when somehow it tipped over and shattered. I was very upset, I really liked that sign. I still have the piece with the location's name, but it's just boring red and not that attractive.
I often wonder if it was custom made or a production item. I'd love to buy one like it, and have it as a remembrance of my travle agency days...
I have/had some neon. Had a great piece from one of our defunct travel agencies. It had a large sun with sunglasses over blue waves with 2 palm trees on it. I was planning on putting in up in my basement when somehow it tipped over and shattered. I was very upset, I really liked that sign. I still have the piece with the location's name, but it's just boring red and not that attractive.
I often wonder if it was custom made or a production item. I'd love to buy one like it, and have it as a remembrance of my travle agency days...
Looked though some of the neon on ebay, came across this which has only one palm tree, mine had two just like it and and size is close, mine was about 36" by 18-20"
http://cgi.ebay.com/Palm-Beach-Cant...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca71c74da
http://cgi.ebay.com/Palm-Beach-Cant...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca71c74da
Sweet Merciful Heavans!
I am not yet fortunate enough to own any Frigidaire washing apparatus (Oh WCI-58, why must you be so elusive and likely expensive?), so I am not qualified to own this magnificent sign. Someone else here, however, needs, no DESERVES to have this sign!
Go get it,
Dave
I am not yet fortunate enough to own any Frigidaire washing apparatus (Oh WCI-58, why must you be so elusive and likely expensive?), so I am not qualified to own this magnificent sign. Someone else here, however, needs, no DESERVES to have this sign!
Go get it,
Dave
I love neon signs as well-Sadly they are a disappearing craft-with LED and other lighting technologies-its putting a hurt on neon tubes.Neon signs are HANDMADE and blown-not machine made like other lights.Many of these neon signs-esp the small wall and window hung models-were mass produced for customers-like Frigidaire Appliances,the beer and drink companies and so on.These signs were made in shops employed large number of "tube benders" to make them.Usually the guys were just from sign making school.Some is still taught today-but not on the scale signmaking used to be.Sometimes neon is TRYING to make a comeback-no other lighting can duplicate the color and "look"I used to have a small collection of Berr signs-they are common around here-but got broken during a move-now the signs are much more expensive.May try to get a fewjust for the neon "Look" even though I hate beer.Really large neon sings--esp "Spectaculars" as signmakers call them--are so fragile and large its hard to ship them to a new owener.Also I really like the "animation" that was in neon signage.Once I knew someone that worked in a sign shop and he got transformers-straight neon tubes(for borders and such in windows)and a "No" or if you held it the other way--"On"These got broke or lost from moves years ago.Also had the animation switches and timers.Was fun to play with them.They were electromchanical-timer motors and such-modern ones are of course solid state and microprocessor controlled-there goes the cool clicking and clacking noises from the mechanical ones!
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