{"id":2215,"date":"2017-08-19T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2017-08-19T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:51:51","slug":"the-neon-signs-of-albuquerques-route-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"The Neon Signs of Albuquerque’s Route 66"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Neon Signs of Albuquerque’s Route 66 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the goals of my Albuquerque trip was to find neon signs from the vintage Route 66 motels.  I did some research on GoogleEarth to see where people had posted their pictures of these signs.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Albuquerque in the early afternoon and drove to the Westward Ho Motel.   I then drove from west to east along Route 66 (aka Central Avenue).  I had a general idea where some of the neon signs were and stumbled across others.  I pulled a u-turn after capturing an image of the Premier Motel and drove east to west to capture signs on the other side of the street.<\/p>\n

I originally thought I would drive the strip at night and capture all of the signs lit up.  Unfortunately, only the El Vado was lit up, and very brightly at that!<\/p>\n

Once I returned home I cut out each sign from their background and pasted them all into a new file.  For the background I used the stucco wall from an image of a building in Sante Fe.  The Albuquerque lettering comes from a sticker on the hood of a car hanging on the wall of a building outside the 66 Diner (see this post<\/a> for the original sticker).  I had taken several images of that hood, one from straight on thinking I might be able to use the lettering on the sticker.  I used the Perspective Crop Tool<\/a> in Photoshop to straighten the text.  Cutting out the text and pasting it in the master file completed all of the elements I needed for the poster.<\/p>\n

Westward Ho Motel: N35 04 39.99 W106 43 08.61<\/p>\n

Premiere Motel: N46 04 45.66 W106 36 04.57<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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