Stone: Day 1

I took a trip down Stone on my bike. The wealth of material is phenomenal. I have enough pictures for three days. Which I will be uploading for the next three days.




This sign is behind a chain link fence, chances are it's going to be torn down soon and this plaza will be redeveloped.

Broadway and Campbell

Today I went to a region south of the U of A.

I really like this sign (Vince's Automotive Repair) notice the use of only two colors and the creative deployment of typography.

This is like some kind of sign grave yard. (Notice my shadow).

Funny thing about this R.V. Parks is that it's actually a trailer park, and it's pretty run down too. Furthermore it sits right in the shadow of the city, it's there, you go around the corner of Safeway and you'll see it. But unless you go one block out of your way: it's hidden behind all the glamorous Cricket wireless store and an apartment complex, and, Safeway.

I like that this sign is missing the 'S'

Grant and Park

99 cent store!
There's not much to say about this sign. I just took a picture of it on my way home from church. It's just like every other sign in Tucson. With this blog, I want to get a diverse representation of the signs throughout the town, spectacular or not. So: let this be an example of a typical Tucson sign at night.

Prince & Stone

I went out of my way today and these are the results:

One thing Tucson has, in abundance, are these payday loan places. This one is unique in the number of glowing neon and LED signs in its windows, really obnoxious if you ask me.

The thing that caught me about about this Dairy Queen was the glowing star on top. This Dairy Queen was built in 1952 and it's still owned by its original family. The star on top is based on an old electro-mechanical system that controls the lights to light up in around the star in series, like the Lucky Wishbone sign on Broadway. Unfortunately only the inner lights work because the system has broken down and replacements parts are no longer available. I'm lucky I got this sign now too because city ordinance forbids it because it's "distracting to traffic". The only reason it's up now is because it was put up before that ordinance was passed. Once it goes down: it can't go back up. So its days are numbered.
Although one thing I wonder: why do they let the payday loans place have so many neon lights and they don't want Dairy Queen to have its glowing star?

Trip over to west campus

So I headed over to west campus, a place I do not normally go to to try and get a hair cut. Being Monday, as I forgot, the barber was closed. But I used this as an opportunity to get more pictures.

Here is the place I tried to get a hair cut at.

I can't resist taking pictures of two signs stacked almost on top of one another.

This picture just shows the creativity of human laziness. So you were too lazy to walk the other twenty feet to put the top of your soft drink container in the trash? You just had to stick it into the entrance sign at the bank didn't you? And what did you do with the soft drink container? Did you throw that in the trash? So you couldn't carry the extra 2 grams to the trash but you could carry the container just fine? Really, this just doesn't make any sense.

Alvernon iCal

Alvernon iCal, on the corner of Campbell and Glenn.

Fair Wheel Bikes

I snapped this really quick outside of the U of A. I don't have much time to take too many pictures now with my Senior capstone design project and other school work, but I do what I can when I can.

The sun was reflecting directly off from this building. This image was taken from the west facing wall during sun set, making it look very bright and yellow. Most of the day this building looks different but during this one time of day it looks like this.
This is one of the things I'm trying to do with this blog: capture perspectives we normally don't see in things we see every day.