Vegas Seven 2-18-2010 : Page 83
Sites to see By Geoff Carter WONDERS AND SIGNS (neonmuseum.org) I love the Neon Boneyard. Whenever I find myself in the neighborhood of Las Vegas Boulevard and McWilliams Avenue I invariably stop and shoot a few photos of vintage neon signs through the chain-link fence, yet I’ve never signed up for the tour like an intelligent person would. But I will. Right now, the Boneyard is being remade with an entrance and walking paths, with the goal of creating a proper Neon Museum at long last. The Neon Museum’s website provides details of the construction process, one of the first steps of which is to replace my beloved chain-link fence. IN PRAISE OF PHOTO BOOTHS (photobooth.net) Black-and-white photo booths are on the list of things I love unconditionally, wedged some- where between Campari and every damn thing Tom Waits has ever done. Somehow, photo booths allow people to be truly themselves: You adjust the seat, close the curtain, put in your two bucks, face the camera and real emotion pours from your face. (Also, things often pour from bras and pants. It’s that curtain.) Photobooth.net celebrates these machines—from their locations to their place in pop culture—with such fervor that you’ll want to find your way to a booth immediately. There’s one at the Double Down Saloon, I think. Remember that public decency laws are only enforced if you’re caught. SALMON LATTES AND EGGSPRESSOS (puttingweirdthingsincoffee.com) Things that go in coffee: Cream, sure. Sugar, absolutely. Butter ... well, maybe. Peanut butter and jelly? Whoppers Malted Milk Balls? Look, we’re heading into a whole weird area here, which is fine, because the Putting Weird Things in Coffee blog is already on the scene and reporting the carnage firsthand. I could tell you what a cup of coffee looks like once it’s met a strip of bacon, but you have to see it yourself. Wow. Journalist Geoff Carter is a Las Vegas native living in Seattle, land of virtual titillation. February 18-24, 2010 Vegas Seven 83
