Ignite | Neon Museum | Tucson | Arizona

A new museum has opened in Tucson -  Ignite, a "Neon Museum".  I expected mostly antique neon signs from decades gone by.  Some were, but quite a few of them were from the past couple of decades.

This is interesting, on the far right is a note that claims this last drive-in showed the last movie in October, 2009. 

I'm thinking this one was from a casino.  I imagine casinos have lots of old signs.

I'm not sure if this restaurant went out of business, but I know they've been around in this decade, or close to it.

Here's more of what I expected.

Mexican food!   I'd be there for a burrito!

 

There is a Valencia road in Tucson, possibly they had a grocery store there.

 

 

Nice collection of old clocks. 

 

When motels had neon signs to lure people in......

 

Not sure where this would have been - might be a motel. 

This was an interesting sign - instead of being neon, all the lights around on the arrow lit up in succession - with a little click for each light.  Old technology, but it was cool.

 

 

This is a nice old one, the words lit up one at a time, and I had to time the shot to have both lit at the same time.

 

This was from a burger place, reminds me that McDonald's had burgers this price too!

I like this one.

 

There were a few walls of just signs collected - I like the one that says "No Trespassing Between 7 pm and 7 am"  I guess any other time - trespassing is welcomed.  The "No Sniveling" is a good one too.

 

 

There were two of these scenes set up, looking like old-time soda fountains.

 

 

 

Nothing to do with signs at all, but this was part of the collection.  They had a video playing of an old Groucho Marx show.  As I walked through, someone on the TV mentioned something about the 1950's.  I'm thinking the TV itself and the antenna are from that era.