Modern Pastry Shop

Modern Pastry Shop sign, Boston.

Just arrived in Boston yesterday for TypeCon 2006. While walking along the famous Freedom Trail, I snapped this photo of a great vintage sign. Scooby seems to like it, too. (By the way, if you walk on the Freedom Trail the wrong direction, should it be called the Tyranny Trail?)

Update, Febrary 2013: I never got around to writing more about TypeCon 2006. Sorry about that. It was pretty great. I did a short presentation about Adrian Frutiger (who was awarded the SOTA Award that year) and the folks from Bitstream did a musical number about Bitstream typefaces in the fashion of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Shot in Barstow, California, on August 17, 2010.

Motel

Photo of vintage motel sign

Vintage sign seen in Wisconsin Dells, July 31, 2003.

Neckties

Neckties

Seen in an antique store in Osseo, Wisconsin, on August 14, 2009.

Nash Metropolitan

Seen in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 20, 2009.

Neon Graveyard

Sassy sign

Outstanding set of photos by Carl Carl from the Neon Graveyard in Las Vegas. (Via Boing Boing.)