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38 Lexington Club
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37 United Nations
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36 Ocean Park Motel
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35 Mannings Coffee Cafe
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26 First Baptist
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33 Haight Street
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32 Carlton Hotel
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31 Orpheum Theatre
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30 500 Club
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Omar Khayyam’s legendary San Francisco restaurant opened in 1938 by George Marikidian, the storied former Armenian Freedom Fighter. Located at 200 Powell Street, the welcoming neon sign greeted a solid San Francisco clientele as well as notable celebritie
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28 Donuts Best
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For architectural preeminence on the strip [theatres on Mission Street], none outclassed the El Capitan, two blocks north of the New Mission. Its baroque façade is a city landmark, but the theater closed in 1957 and shortly after that it was gutted and tu
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The New Mission Theatre looms over 2550 Mission in 1964. Photo by Alan J. Canterbury, courtesy of San Francisco History Center @SFPublicLibrary #sf #typographye #neon #everything_signage #signgeeks #signcollective #retrotype #cinematreasures #sfneon
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23 El Capitan
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25 Tower Theatre
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22 Great Star
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Looking west on Haight Street, from Ashbury Street on a wet November 11th, 1944. In the background is the Haight Theatre, which closed 1964. Detail is the eye-catching projecting neon sign advertising Doctor S. Zwerling Optometrist. Photo courtesy of San
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20 Twin Peaks
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19 Fillmore Street
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14 Roxie Theater
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12 Verdi
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11 Hamms
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05 Mr. Peanut
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10 New Mission
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09 Willie Mayes
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The Ocean Park Motel sign was designed by the motel’s owner, Mark Duffett. This 1937 stream-lined landmark is one of the best motels in San Francisco and one of the first. 2690 46th Avenue, 2014 photo by Al Barna from San Francisco Neon. #sf #typographye
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The Lafayette Coffee Shop sign is restored and glowing again on Hyde Street! The new owners wanted to restore it because they thought “it would be nice to preserve some of the city's history. The Lafayette sign features a classic design that cannot be rep
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13 International Settlement
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In business since 1918, the neon was installed in 1954. The current owners had the neon fully restored in 2002 after years of neglect. (Neighbors taped notes to the windows pleading for restoration of this Mission District classic.) This is a rare exampl
