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BelAir Motel, Olive & Weber, Fresno, Ca.

this is funny. That pigion is really fitting. Do you think the sign has some vacuum tubes in it? Cheers, Micheal

I think the pigeon is the low dollar replacement for the NBC peacock.

the colors seem to pop out in 3D and the pigeon does'nt care just arunning his business as usual...a real nice evidence of the importance of color TV some decades ago...now the pigeons have recycle the whole thing as their perch...

I suspect that there are kids today who have no idea that there was a time when all televisions were black and white. How strange that must seem to them. It's funny how the reds have fared the worst on the sign.

it's the same with cars body and lots of other surfaces....the red fades away first...I guess it has something to do with the pigment or whatever that makes the red take more sun energy and fades away faster....

Very good david, I like always your style.....you know my english is poor, but i appreciate a lot your work. Saludos from Mexico, Giovanni

I haven't been here for a while, but I see you are still knocking them out, Dave. Interesting stuff, as usual. And as far as ....the red fades away first...it seems to be a sign of the times. The blue is very vivid, however. Wishing you a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. Barb :)

Thanks. Your English is way better than my second language.

Nice to see your smiling face around here. Hope you are all healed up and full of piss and vinegar as always (meant in a good way, of course). And yes, red has faded. But don't you worry, the bastards will be back. And too soon. ☺

Brother, I would pay a hefty sum to stand in front of this sign. Thanks for bearing witness and then translating the scrolls so perfectly.

 

Cheers,

 

Jay

I love the pigeon, oblivious to the miracle of technicolor. And speaking of color, this hearkens back to the 50's/60's color scheme. Melmac dinnerware.

another Meyer classic. love the processing on this one too. the times they are a changin'. we are probably getting into the second generation of kids who would not recognize a black and white tv (and remember those rabbit ear antennas!), would not know how to change a channel without a remote or dial a rotary phone!!

Come on out! I'll take you to the very spot. Not at night though. ☺

Oh that's great. You just dislodged a long lost memory of Melmac dinnerware we ate on for years. It was kind of a pinkish brown stuff with absolutely no redeeming aesthetic value. But the food seemed pretty good.

Yes, we are such relics. Can you sense it?

So cool, Dave. I guesse the bird is waiting for the pet programme show to start. lol. Well seen. Have a great year, my friend. Regards, Lawrence.

How low the mighty have fallen. The colors are just as I remember them when I used to watch Bonanza "in living color" at my friend Frankie's house except here the colors tend to stay where their supposed to and not wander all over the place.

Thank you my man. Love your work, and it's nice that you dropped over for a look at mine.

As a fellow curmudgeon, I know you can appreciate the history this brings back. Think, "Philco," "Magnavox," "Sylvania," "RCA," "Studebaker," "Westinghouse," "Sunbeam," and so many more. Hell, even Maytag, born in the fields of Iowa, is bought out by the Chinese and no longer made by sturdy German descendants on the prairie. RCA, if they even exist, turned into Japan Victor Corporation I think. Waterford/Wedgewood on the brink. Who shall make those lovely glass containers in which our tears of nostalgia may fall? Change is certain and can be a good thing, but I'm not so sure a lot of this is for the better. Ah, now I feel much better......

Wonderful, David. I was born in the early sixties but loved the looks of the era then and still do today. That particular style has always been a major influence for me. I wish I'd been twenty then. The music, cinema, clothes, furniture, cars, architecture, art, yeah, really love the American style from the fifties and sixties..

So nice to hear from you. I graduated from high school in 1963, so that era of the late fifties and early sixties (or maybe all of the sixties) had a tremendous influence upon me. RCA, of course, was a name universally known. How times have changed. So too have all the cultural standards. But, I guess that is the nature of time.

I was born in 1963. And I often try to think out the nature of time too. Sometimes I'd just love to have a time capsule. RCA Victor, the TV sets, vibrant color, and of course those LP covers in gorgeous color, wonderful.