{"id":4354,"date":"2017-04-20T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2017-04-20T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:04:28","slug":"thomas-rinaldi-returns-to-talk-about-neon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rinaldi returns to talk about Neon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark and co-host\u00a0Pilleater<\/a>\u00a0talk to\u00a0returning guest<\/a>\u00a0Thomas Rinaldi. He is the author of\u00a0New York Neon<\/a>\u00a0and blogs at\u00a0nyneon.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thomas’s\u00a0Tours of West Village’s Vintage Neon Signs<\/a>, his\u00a0Greenwich Village Neon Walking Tour<\/a>, and how those areas have the highest concentration of surviving Neon in New York City
\nThomas’s observation that Neon has declined in both corporate chain dominated, as well as lower income communities
\nHow ironically in the 60’s Neon was\u00a0synonymous with commercialization(ex. Simon & Garfunkel’s\u00a0The Sound of Silence<\/a>)
\nThe association of Neon with 80’s Retro-Futurism(ex.\u00a0Retrowave<\/a>,\u00a0Club NEON<\/a>) and the irony that Neon hit rock bottom in the 80’s
\nThe decline of Neon in Time Square,\u00a0Robert Brenner’s Gritty Old Time Square Tours<\/a>, and the few remnents including the West 43rd Garage and the McDonalds from the 80’s
\nLights Out 2016: Signs We Lost That Year<\/a>
\nThe\u00a0Colgate Clock<\/a>\u00a0in Jersey City, which has been LED’ed
\nClock Towers Signs in New York including the\u00a0Paramount Theatre<\/a>, the\u00a0Consolidated Edison Building<\/a>, the\u00a0Met Life Tower<\/a>, and the\u00a0Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower<\/a>
\nSoviet Neon Stars at the Kremlin and\u00a0Neon in Communist Cuba<\/a>
\nWilliamsburg’s Domino Sugar Refinery redevelopment<\/a>; the outlawing of waterfront signs in New York City
\nThe C & H factory Sign<\/a>\u00a0in Crockett, California
\nGhirardelli Square<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco as one of the best examples of a renovated former industrial site
\nGeorges Claude<\/a>, the father of the commercialization of Neon
\nThe popularity of\u00a0Signs Inside<\/a>
\nFake Neon<\/a>
\nAnimated Neon Signs<\/a>, the peak in the 50’s, and\u00a0San Francisco’s “Coca~Cola” Sign <\/a>
\nBulb Signs<\/a>\u00a0which were proliferate in the 1920’s, and Robert’s observation that they were also popular with 90’s era Las Vegas Casinos
\nWildwood, New Jersey Neon<\/a>
\nMid Century Road Signage; Route 66
\nDowntown LA; The LA\u00a0Museum Of Neon Art<\/a>
\nNeon in Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/a>; The Art Deco\u00a0Kavanagh building<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Estadio Luna Park<\/a>
\nThomas’s observations from\u00a0Stockholm and Amsterdam
\nHow Neon is declining in both Mega Cities such as New York and London as well as the poorest cities in the developing world
\nHong Kong Is Slowly Dimming Its Neon Glow<\/a><\/p>\n

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                      Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater talk to returning guest Thomas Rinaldi. He is the author of New York Neon and blogs at nyneon.blogspot.com Topics: Thomas’s Tours of West Village’s Vintage Neon Signs, his Greenwich Village Neon Walking Tour, and how those areas have the highest concentration of surviving Neon in New York City … Continue reading Thomas Rinaldi returns to talk about Neon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,572,542,623,93,457,629,669,598,949,554,583,156,459,12,548,719,449,276,932,448,813,270,624,600,411,798,737,694,803,527,652,804,516,676,865],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-1980s","category-aesthetics","category-architecture","category-argentina","category-art","category-art-deco","category-asia","category-blade-runner","category-buenos-aires","category-cities","category-consumerism","category-corporations","category-culture","category-economics","category-futurism","category-gentrification","category-historic-preservation","category-history","category-hong-kong","category-las-vegas","category-london","category-los-angeles","category-mid-century-modern","category-neon","category-new-york","category-philadelphia","category-pilleater","category-retro-futurism","category-robert-brenner","category-san-francisco","category-thomas-rinaldi","category-time-square","category-travel","category-urbanism","category-wildwood-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}