I took a break from adding to the website for a couple of extended weekend trips to L.A. & Orange County and then to Central California & the Bay Area en route to NeonSpeaks. Those photos are all up at the website and I’ll add some highlights of other things here (some included at my site, some not). If you are new to my blog, the purpose of it is to document each day’s shooting in some way and to include many things not worthy of my website. The photos at my blog are also include at my roadsidenut Flickr account so that the images are searchable and have links in each caption to the blog post where they appear.

Let’s start off with some Southern California stuff. This chimp statue is installed in front of the Mr. Brainwash Art Museum in Beverly Hills:

Another chimp statue in Beverly Hills in front of a house on Benedict Canyon:

A wood-carved bear in Los Angeles that’s been painted many colors over the years:

A detail from the L.A. Times Building in downtown Los Angeles:

A detail from an apartment building in Los Angeles:

The Silver Fox nightclub in Long Beach — fake deco from 1981:

The Segal House in Malibu:

The Tail O’ the Pup clock in West Hollywood:

The Rainbow Neon Dog in West Hollywood which was built in 1990 for a pet store. The store closed in 2020 and the sign was gifted to the City and installed here earlier this year:

Let’s move on to some Central and Bay Area stuff. The restored Mammoth Orange from Fairmead now at the Fossil Discovery Center in Chowchilla:

This building is in San Francisco:

A mountain lion carved from a tree stump in Mill Valley:

Lord Snort from recycled metal in Healdsburg:

Moving on to a batch of signs. This former bulbs and sputnik-ish detail is mid-pole at the Puerto Vallarta restaurant in Hanford:

Sam’s Anchor Cafe in Tiburon:

This former Bob’s Big Boy sign in Fresno was recently repurposed for a cannabis store:

A detail from the Pine Cone restaurant in Sebastopol:

The Milt’s Coffee Shop sign now installed at the Kern County Museum in Bakersfield:

Caldron’s Jewelers in Tracy closed in 2021 but this sign remains over the vacant space:

The SureSave Market sign in Madera:

The Linder Hardware (also closed) sign in Tulare:

A couple of San Francisco signs. Neon directly over vitrolite on Mission St. Established in 1908 and still operating:

This sign with the “tipsy” martini” was repainted recently. I’m sure it had neon originally:

Let’s end this post with this sign. The Hotsy Totsy sign in Albany in looked like this until just a few weeks ago:

The new owners wanted to it to be known that management had changed and asked for these colors. The neon was reinstalled just a week after my photo:

That’s it for now. I’ll be back soon as we get back on track with the summer trip’s Missouri stuff and eventually Illinois.

Happy trails,
dj & the dogs

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