Las Vegas Neon Signs 1985
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2014
- Old neon in Las Vegas in the mid 80's. Most of these old signs are rusting away in the neon boneyard these days.
I shot this using a Sony M3 3 tube camera and recorded it on a Sony VO-4800 3/4' recorder.
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This is GREAT stuff! The sign I remember most from my first trip to Las Vegas is the old Golden Nugget sign on Fremont Street, and I noticed it in the background on this video. Thank you for posting!
Thanks. This was the first time I was in Vegas. I was hired to shoot a wedding, but I was not about to haul my 150LBS in camera gear down there, so we rented a professional camera for the shoot. The wedding was on a Saturday, but I couldn't return the gear until Monday. So we walked, drove the rental car around on Sunday night and made this video. It was shot using a really nice Sony tube camera that weighed a ton, and recorded on a portable beta recorder that weighed about as much as the camera. The next time I went back in 88 or 89 I took my Sony beta camcorder, that is part 2. Being an early CCD camera it had a totally different look. I was back in 2008, and just went back a few weeks ago armed with several HD cameras. I took some sticks and did the Fremont street experience and will be working on that, and several other videos of my travels in the US over the coming months.
I still like the old Neon stuff. I am an avid Neon collector, and have some nice pieces of neon art in my personal collection, as well as some antique pieces some dating back to the 30's.
They need to bring this style of neon back! Not necessarily the old signs but just the same classic vegas style of neon lighting like how it was back then. They need to bring that for the hotels that stand now. Like the good old days
Problem is all the artists that worked with neon are all gone now and no new blood is entering the trade.
I think these signs are much prettier than the ones they have now
These signs were a true art all in themselves. The only reason I went to Vegas the first few times was to document the old neon hauling around a heavy camera, and even heavier tripod and separate recorder.
I haven't been back to Las Vegas since 1994. It's a long way from Kentucky, where I live now. Something very comforting about these neon signs; it saddens me when they replace them with something more modern. I still miss the old Holiday Inn signs, and they've been gone for close to thirty years.
Long way from Vancouver BC too. Vancouver used to be one of the neon capitals of the world back in the 50's. I remember back in the early 70's when they started taking them down because the council of the day found them too seedy.
The BOWMAC sign on Broadway is in the Guinness book of records as the largest neon sign on the world at the time.
There is just something cool about passing thousands of volts down a glass tube and it glows. The craftsmen that made them had to be very creative indeed. It is a skill I always wanted to learn.
12voltvids I spent three nights in Vancouver at the Georgian Hotel in September of 1984. The drive from Banff to Vancouver might be the most scenic drive of my life. I also enjoyed my stay in Victoria. Wonderful area.
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Yes it is nice country. I have some videos in time lapse of the area.
Will likely do the Sea to Sky and Duffy lake road drive later this month. I am working an my Arizona trip right now and will start posting time lapse views of the road from that trip soon.
This is such an amazing video! I’m currently a student and working on an educational video about the chemistry of neon signs and how they work, would it be possible to use some of this video in that project? I would absolutely love to have it!
I like this
Just not the same these days.
@@12voltvids I've never been there but watching vids of how it looks now without the neon sucks. I wonder what they were thinking. Makes no sense
@@thesilentdiva not the same now. Glad I was able to see old Las Vegas. Now I could care less. Went there a few years ago and won't be going back again.
@@thesilentdiva Monkey see monkey do. One puts up a giant video screen, and the rest follow suite and now it looks ridicules. The old neon was just cool. It was real art, not this video screen crap.
@@12voltvids i heard it's very expensive too. My friend is going this wknd so my curiosity led me to looking up vids
When they say the video screens help advertise the hotels and make people look at it more? Poor thinking process. I believe tourists would rather look at a beautiful piece of art neon sign that lights up the strip and thought and work was put into it to make Vegas really the Vegas we want to see. Modern screens don't fit with this city.
I agree 150%. I made 2 trips down there, one was a working trip (shooting a wedding in vegas for a high roller that paid my way) and the second time just to see and photograph the signs. (I did that the first time too, but it was a rental camera and I had to send it back so I went back a few years later with my own camera)
Now I could care less. I have been back a few times, passing through, and the LED signs do nothing for me at all. The old neon was fantastic, a real work of art.
Looks pretty good, I expected worse from Umatic. CBS Sunday Morning has a clip from 1993 about Las Vegas lights: ua-cam.com/video/GziM74QuBaA/v-deo.html they show the silver slipper from the Silver Slipper casino in a bone yard, you have it at 9:05.
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