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Vintage Signs: Links & Books

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My Flickr Groups:
All Skate!
Bulb Signs
Clock Signs
Foster's Freeze Ice Cream
Let's Bowl!
Masonic Lodge Signs
Neon Critters
Neon Extensions
Neon Objects
Neon People
Neon Sweet Tooth
Neon Transportation
Opal Glass Signs
Roto-Spheres & Sputnik Signs
Scaffold Signs
Service Ladder Signs

Museum Websites:
Ignite Sign Art Museum (Tucson, AZ)
American Sign Museum (Cincinnati, OH)
Museum of Neon Art (MoNA) (Glendale, CA)
The Neon Museum (Las Vegas, NV)
National Neon Sign Museum (The Dalles, OR)

Films:
Neon, Lawrence Johnston, 2015

Powerpoint Presentation:
Neon Speaks Festival & Symposium, Debra Jane Seltzer (2018)

Books:
The American Billboard: 100 Years, James Fraser, 1991, 1997
American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66, Lisa Mahar, 2002
Billboard Art, Sally Henderson & Robert Landau, 1980
Billboard Art on the Road, Laura Steward Heon, Peggy Diggs & Joseph Thompson, 1999
Ghost Signs: Brick Wall Signs in America, William Stage, 1989
Ghost Signs of Arkansas, Cynthia Lea Haas & Jeff Holder, 1997
Los Angeles Neon, Nathan Marsak & Nigel Cox, 2002
The Magic of Neon, Michael Webb, 1986
Neon Nevada, Sheila Swan & Peter Laufer, 1994
New England Neon, Susan Mara Bregman, 2018
The New Let There Be Neon, Rudi Stern, 1988
New York Neon, Thomas E. Rinaldi, 2012
Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements, Joe Sonderman, 2016
San Francisco Neon: Survivors and Lost Icons, Al Barna and Randall Ann Homan, 2014
Sign Language: Street Signs as Folk Art, John Baeder, 1996
Signs and Wonders, Tama Starr & Edward Hayman, 1998
Signs, Streets, and Storefronts, Martin Treu, 2012
Signs of Our Times, John Margolies & Emily Gwathmey, 1993
Vacant Eden: Roadside Treasures of the Sonoran Desert, Gumbiner, Hayden & Heiman, 1997
Vanishing Roadside America, Warren H. Anderson, 1981
Vintage Neon, Len Davidson, 1999
Vintage Signs of America, Debra Jane Seltzer, 2018

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