STILL LIT, issue twenty-two
STILL LIT, issue twenty-two
Two hundred and fifty signs sit in a dirt yard at 770 Las Vegas Blvd N. About thirty of them turn on.
The Neon Museum has been pulling signs off the strip since 1996. The yard opened in October 2012, the first time the collection was built to be seen lit. A sign company climbs the poles and puts the gas back in, one sign at a time. The Stardust is out there. So is the La Concha lobby, which is the visitors centre now.
A sign that has been dark for thirty years is still a sign. It just needs someone to climb the pole.
If I got to pick one, it would be the small one with my own name on it. Half the bulbs in the B are dead. I would fix the B.
Your turn: name a sign you'd put back on.