Bowell Funeral Home neon sign, c. 1955-1960
Museum of Vancouver
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| Nom de l'objet : | Bowell Funeral Home neon sign, c. 1955-1960 |
| Numéro de catalogue : | H996.22.13 |
| Fabricant : | Neon Products Ltd. |
| Municipalité d'origine : | Vancouver |
| Province d'origine : | BC |
| Pays d'origine : | Canada |
| Date de début de production : | 1955 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1960 |
| Description : | Large outdoor sign; 1 sided; roughly rectangular shape; raised glass tubing mounted on brown plywood backdrop; reads "S. Bowell & Sons Ltd. Funeral Directors"; same text painted on backdrop underneath tubing in white and yellow; glass tubing painted-out with brown, white and yellow; imitation scrolls painted in blue at each end of sign; extra glass tubing between first and second line of text creates a fret-like design at each end; 1 tube runs across width of sign underlining "S. Bowell & Sons"; all tube ends run into transformer at bottom of sign; transformer housed in wide trough-like can with curved ends; can painted olive green; 5 large bolts on front for attaching sign to mounting surface; backdrop screwed to wooden frame on reverse; sticker with company logo for Neon Products placed under letter "C"; condition of glass at time of cataloguing: no broken glass but tubing has come off elevation posts at "S" of "S. Bowell" and "s" of "Directors". |
| Fonctions : | S. Bowell & Sons - Funeral Directors - Embalmers, was located at 66 Sixth Street, New Westminster, 5772 Pacific Highway. Today the business carries on as Bowell and Sons, 219 Sixth Street, New Westminster. Designed and manufactured by the Neon Products company of Vancouver. Established in 1928, Neon Products was the original and most prolific manufacturer of neon signs in Western Canada. Signs produced by the company were generally custom made and leased, not sold, to clients. Neon Products maintained and repaired the signs for an annual fee. During the height of neon's popularity in the 1950's, Neon Products was responsible for producing some of Vancouver's most famous neon signs including the Regent Tailor's sign, the Aristocratic Restaurants sign and the enormous BOW MAC auto dealership sign. Today, Neon Products is one of the largest lease/custom-design sign companies in the world. Ralf Kelman, an artist and self-described lighting activist, collected signs from the Neon Products scrapyard. In 1977 he sold a collection to the Vancouver Museum. See report on neon collection by John Atkin in Doc. Spec. file. |
| Largeur : | 366 cm |
| Profondeur : | 21 cm |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Mention de crédit - Image : | Museum of Vancouver Collection |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Vancouver |
| Province de l'établissement : | BC |
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