Neon/bright billboard districts in your city (think Times Square etc.)

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

i think Times Square should be bigger...

[JDRCRASH]

I think it shouldn't.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

I think it shouldn't.

sorry but i like pretty shiny things that light up

[volguus zildrohar]

Then get yourself a big Hess truck.

I used to like Times Square a lot - it wouldn't be so bad now if it weren't for the tourists.

[JDRCRASH]

Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork

sorry but i like pretty shiny things that light up

yeah, but other than the intersection itself (or...what's left of it), every other block nearby, IMO, doesn't really need all that signage.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

yeah, but other than the intersection itself (or...what's left of it), every other block nearby, IMO, doesn't really need all that signage.

how about a supertall in times square that lights up like Harrah's in Atlantic city


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[RST500]

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[RST500]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Market Street, San Francisco, 1960's


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1957 Street scene in San Francisco, CA. Looking South on Stockton Street at Geary Street. Looking toward Market Street further down the block.





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[The_Architect]

Originally Posted by mthq

What I don't like about these neon districts in Los Angeles and Toronto is that they're artificial and built with the sole purpose to serve as a Times Square like area. Times Square, Ginza, Shibuya, etc on the other hand are organic and developed over time in what was already a busy intersection of the city. Unlike LA or TO, none of the buildings in these other cities are from the same time period with the same architecture and whatnot.

Yonge Street in the 70's:

[softee]

Yep, Yonge and Dundas has always been a brightly lit flashy district. I hope they bring back the iconic spinning discs from Sam The Record Man once Ryerson U redevelops the property Sam's used to occupy.

[J. Will]

Originally Posted by softee

Yep, Yonge and Dundas has always been a brightly lit flashy district. I hope they bring back the iconic spinning discs from Sam The Record Man once Ryerson U redevelops the property Sam's used to occupy.

Whoever told mthq that Yonge Street was entirely built up recently with large, flashy, colourful lights and signs is a moron and a liar. And the buildings there range from the last 100+ years. They are not "from the same time period with the same architecture and whatnot". That's another lie someone told him.

He needs to stop listening to what others tell him, and do some research for himself so he's not just spreading their lies.

[RST500]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

For me, besides Times Square and Tokyo's Shinjuku district, nothing quite beats old Piccadilly Square...














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Originally Posted by Taller, Better

Regent Street is one of the most beautiful streets anywhere on the planet. I took these pics around the Picadilly vicinity a few months back:

Originally Posted by wjfox

[Chief Blackhawk]

Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

There are no areas like this in Chicago period. Large public advertisements, for whatever reasons, are almost none-existent in the city of Chicago. I've just begun to realize that our downtown is almost completely sterilized of advertising.

Damn straight; let's keep it that way!!

[Xing]

State St near Randolph has significantly lit up in Chicago, but it's not advertisements beyond the title of the buildings and news stations, and giant tv's.

[RST500]

Besides that street in Vancouver where else has there been a revival in neon? Its heyday was from the 1930's-60. In many places such as San Francisco's midmarket district it was removed completely. There was a ballot measure to bring back the sign district(not sure if it was neon or just billboards and led screens). In Time Square in New York and Piccadilly Cricus in London they replaced almost all the neon with the screens.

[RST500]

SAN FRANCISCO — Can neon save a neighborhood?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/us/03billboard.html

"Mr. Addington, who owns two of the 52 buildings on that strip, known as Mid-Market, including the Warfield Theater, says he came up with the idea while looking at old photos of the area, which effectively connects the shopping friendly Union Square district with the area surrounding City Hall.

“When you begin to look at historic pictures and look at what it is now, what you notice is the lack of signage,” Mr. Addington said."

[mrnyc]

columbus has a new one too at broad and high aka the crossroads of ohio:





cleveland playhouse square has old theater signage and 'a' newish billboard:

[Jonboy1983]

I don't think Pittsburgh has any left. I know when downtown retail and entertainment was in its heyday they had the Warner Theater on Fifth Avenue (sign is still there). Now, I think it's pretty much confined to Station Square. Oh, I guess the Cultural District might have some... I wonder if South Street on Philly would be considered as so.

Niagara Falls has Clifton Hill I know. I was on the NY side in 2004 and I could see the neon glaring from across the border into my hotel room...

[volguus zildrohar]

Err....I guess South Street could count. We'll see what Market East becomes after this zoning change.

[miketoronto]

Randolf Street in the Chicago Loop, when the Loop was the nightlife centre of the region.

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