SF Historic Preservation Commission to Vote on Palace Hotel’s Neon Signs
—Sara Hotchkiss, KQED

SF’s Iconic Palace Hotel Neon Signs Are About to Change
—John King, San Francisco Chronicle

SF Was Once Filled with Neon Light
—Julie Zigoris, The San Francisco Standard

Magical Mystery Lure
—Adriene Biondo, CA Modern/Eichler Network

How Main Streets Can Preserve Historic Neon Signs
—Jeremy Ebersole, Main Street America Blog

Neon Comes Out: San Francisco’s Gay Bar Signs of the 1960s and 1970s
—Jim Van Buskirk and Al Barna, Society for Commercial Archeology Journal

Supervisors Approve Special Neon Sign District in the Tenderloin
—Sarah Wright, SF Standard

Noir and Neon: A Match Made in San Francisco
—Sara Hotchkiss, KQED Do List

Bright Ideas: Will neon signs shine again in the Tenderloin?
—Benjamin Schneider, SF Examiner

Noir and Neon: A Match Made in San Francisco
—Sara Hotchkiss, KQED Do List

Neon Sign Tour of San Francisco’s ChinatownLunar New Year
—Samuel Getachew, KQED Do List

Virtual Neon Tour of Chinatown’s Past
—Grace Li, SF Weekly

Virtual tour of SF neon signs as good as walkdown Bush Street
— Leslie Katz, SF Examiner

Lunar New Year in the Bay Area
—Datebook, SF Chronicle

Neon Dreams and Nightmares of Chinatown’s Past
—Grace Li, SF Weekly

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco
(featuring Li Po Lounge Neon Restoration and SF Neon Tours)
—Dwight Garner, New York Times

Neon Restoration Symposium: Neon Speaks
— Ryan Kost, SF Chronicle

Best Neon Museums in the West
— Christopher Hall, AAA Via Magazine

Tenderloin Neon A-Z Aims to Restore Neon
— Carrie Sisto, Hoodline
Tenderloin Museum Offers Neon A-Z Walking Tour
— Ryan Kost, SF Chronicle

San Francisco Was Once Aglow with Neon
— Serginho Roosblad, KQED Bay Curious

Bringing the Light Back to the Night
— Bonnie Burton, AltaOnline.com

San Francisco Neon Renaissance
— Joyce Slayton, PerLaMente.com

City and Property Owners restore neon signs in the Tenderloin
— Carrie Sisto, Hoodline.com

San Francisco Neon Tours Celebrate Luminous SignsPast & Present
— Nikki Collister, Hoodline.com

Lush photography book illuminates San Francisco’sneon history…
—Jim Van Buskirk, San Francisco Examiner

Once loved, then reviled, the world of neon art is back in lights—from Los Angeles to San Francisco
—Jack Levitan, CA Modern Magazine

An Ode to the Disappearing Neon Signs That Light Up the Streets of San Francisco
—Jordan G. Teicher, “Behold” photography blog, on Slate.com

A New Book Documents San Francisco’s DisappearingNeon Signs
—Meg Miller, CoDesign on FastCompany.com

12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week
—Caleb Pershan on SFist.com

Neon City, Jimmy Carter and more
—Weekend Features, San Francisco Examiner
If only San Francisco’s neon signs could live forever…
—Anika Bugess, AtlasObscura.com

These San Francisco neon signs are awesome…
—Annie Tittinger, San Francisco Magazine

San Francisco once basked in the glow of neon…
—Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle

New book to focus on neon signs
—David Weinstein, Eichler Network

The Ultimate San Francisco Bucket List includes vintage neon! This article uncovers the best of hidden San Francisco.

The Glowing, Glorious History of Neon Coffee Art by Jenn Chen “Coffee shops and cafes were early adopters of neon signs because they were trying to get people out of their car and into the shop.”

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SAN FRANCISCO NEON BOOK

“Just when you thought you knew everything about San Francisco, along comes Al Barna’s and Randall Ann Homan’s book, San Francisco Neon. With beautiful photography, paging through is like strolling down the streets of a familiar city with a new vantage point. You’ll never look at San Francisco streets in quite the same way again. If just one of these neon survivors gets saved from demolition, this book is a huge success.”
—Andrew Danish, author of Palm Springs Weekend (Chronicle Books)

For some, a neon sign is a quick burst of color in their peripheral vision. For others, it is art. For me, a neon sign has a larger significance. It is an important place marker in our collective history. The beautiful photographs in San Francisco Neon are pleasing to the eye but they also awaken my San Francisco pride. What would a drive across the Golden Gate Bridge be without the neon clock at the toll plaza? How attractive would the 500 Club be with a backlit plastic sign? When a neon sign disappears, not only is the visual landscape a whole lot duller, there’s one less bookmark in our unique story.
— Heather M. David, author of Mid-Century by the Bay and Motel California

“…I have to confess that I have long envied San Francisco for its especially rich concentration of colorful and inventive neon-bedecked storefronts. San Francisco Neon captures the magic of these signs into a single glowing portfolio that will provide a lasting record of these important but endangered cultural landmarks”.
— Thomas E. Rinaldi, author of New York Neon (W.W. Norton)

“This wonderful book offers a uniquely atmospheric tour of a world that is rapidly disappearing. It’s at once a gift to designers and a souvenir of the colorful night world of the City by the Bay. Some of the photographs have a cinematic quality, or inspire film noir reveries, with vibrant signs that beckon, warm and welcoming, to denizens of the night. The photographers know San Francisco well, and deserve praise for capturing these charming and often remarkable signs with such affection and care.”
— Richard Sala, author of Mad Night (Fantagraphics Books)