This collection is curated from the Vintage Motel Signs Flickr group. It’s amazing collection of mid-century signage. Live the populuxe area all over again! You’ll see parabolas, dingbats, boomerangs and amazing typography! Don’t take my word for it, check it out!
These hotels and their signage was often maligned by the more “respectable” architects, but the fun nature of this era in design was best summed up by Thomas Hines in his book about this era, Populuxe:
The strip was conceived just at the edge of respectability. Only very rarely did it offer beauty. Far more often there was humor. But always there was vitality.” – Thomas Hines, Populuxe
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