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Neon: the 20th Century’s Sign of the Times

Posted on March 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

“…a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.” – Nelson Algren

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