Old motel signs

Photographer Nick Freeman pays tribute to 135 of the Chicago area's famous—and not-so-famous—neon signs.

images old motel signs | Old Home Motel.....Adamsville, Tennessee

For Sale on 1stDibs - Motel Signs, 1979 to 2005, by Steve Fitch. Offered by Kopeikin Gallery - churned.

This is a great neon sign for Desert Hills Motel on Route 66 (11th Street) in Tulsa Ok.

A photographer has spent decades capturing these symbols of Americana and the open road.

Oasis Motel neon sign retouched by Trey Callaway, a Tulsa resident during the '70s-early-'80s. He now works in Los Angeles. He sent me an email with the following comment: "I wish you could've seen me just now on a conference call with Fox network executives, trying to sound like I was deeply engrossed in everything they had to say-- but all the while trying to "relight" the neon of an old motel sign." Heheh! Thanks for double-dipping for Lost Tulsa.

One of the three massive motel signs lining this stretch of road in Redding, California.

Motel signs are one of my favourite examples of vernacular typography. They form that familiar symbol of shelter on the American roadtrip.

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