the lost chapter: Hop Louie and the Stockton Islander (image heavy) - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 10:44 AM On 2009-11-02 08:26, quickiki wrote: .....and he said that the parent company at the time had them destroy literally thousands and thousands of documents including drawings, photographs and artist renderings as part of their final liquidation. Some of the more impressive renderings landed in the hands of a few of the managers, some went back to the artists who created them, most were trashed, much to the dismay of the old timers. Arrghhh....sob...sniff! (Anger-denial-surrender) The same thing that happened at the menu companies...all this great art lost...like tears in the rain. I always point out the supreme irony of that Las Vegas sign: In the 90s the city wanted to tear it down, and some citizens group fought them and won , and now it is plastered on every poster and ad that features Vegas as THE icon/logo. That is branding that they couldn't buy if they wanted to. Plus, considering the huge neon signs that the city allowed to get razed, the real sign is so small, it's funny/sad. And they are using it to advertise a Vegas esthetic that is just not there anymore, because they allowed it to be destroyed.

On 2009-11-02 08:26, quickiki wrote:
.....and he said that the parent company at the time had them destroy literally thousands and thousands of documents including drawings, photographs and artist renderings as part of their final liquidation. Some of the more impressive renderings landed in the hands of a few of the managers, some went back to the artists who created them, most were trashed, much to the dismay of the old timers.

Arrghhh....sob...sniff! (Anger-denial-surrender) The same thing that happened at the menu companies...all this great art lost...like tears in the rain.

I always point out the supreme irony of that Las Vegas sign: In the 90s the city wanted to tear it down, and some citizens group fought them and won , and now it is plastered on every poster and ad that features Vegas as THE icon/logo. That is branding that they couldn't buy if they wanted to. Plus, considering the huge neon signs that the city allowed to get razed, the real sign is so small, it's funny/sad. And they are using it to advertise a Vegas esthetic that is just not there anymore, because they allowed it to be destroyed.

Post #491463 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 10:44 AM