Good friend and talented artist, John Bell, checked in from his vacation to Yellowstone, WY with some tasty old roadside neon he found along the way. Look, the fact is that while the East Coast of the U.S. holds some of the earliest artifacts of American history, the western states are still full of some of the greatest and most obscure fragments of mid-Twentieth century popular culture. For the most part, it’s all right there in architecture and graphic design readily found across the landscape. And post-war neon signage is at its best along the first western highways when everyone jumped into cars built for long-haul driving and went on vacation to see America.
John’s work is clearly inspired by this Golden Age of motoring (here) and we fully dig him for that, among other things. Critical decisions on pizza, old horror flicks and Seventies-era dragsters, to name a few.
