Give Me A Sign

GIVE ME A SIGN

GIVE ME A SIGN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ROUTE 66 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 PIKE PLACE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6 FISHERMAN’S WHARF - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 HOLLYWOOD - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 BEVERLY HILLS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 LAS VEGAS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14 EXTRATERRESTRIAL HIGHWAY - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16 WRIGLEY FIELD - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 CHICAGO THEATER - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 22 BOURBON STREET - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 24 KEYWEST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 26 BROADWAY x WALL STREET - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 30 RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 32

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COAST

ROUTE 66 Route 66 is the original highway connecting Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois.

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Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 and was very quickly labeled by many as the “Main Street of America.” Connecting Chicago to Los Angeles via a long northeast-to-southwest path also earned Route 66 the name “The Great Diagonal Way.” However, John Steinbeck gave Route 66 its most popular nickname in his beloved novel The Grapes of Wrath, deeming the route “The Mother Road.” The number 66 was chosen somewhat arbitrarily. It was commissioned at a time when the U.S. highway system was sparse; there were less than 60 numbered interstate routes throughout the country.

Route 66 was originally going to be called Route 60, but there were interferences in various states with pre-existing roads. The number “66” was relatively unobtrusive and pleasant to say, and was chosen due to its double-digit memorability.

Despite Route 66 flourishing in its day, it witnessed the beginning of its decline in 1956 when large-scale interstate highways were developed. The indirectness and overcrowding of the route, along with its particularly precarious sections and disrepair, led to the eventual abandonment of the road and the businesses that thrived alongside it. Today, there are hundreds upon thousands of abandoned gas stations, motels, and restaurants alongside the decaying pavement.

While Route 66 is now extinct, the route signage is still particularly popular, with original route signs often auctioned for high prices.

US 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and the road supported the economies of the communities through which it passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.

US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, and it was officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985, after it had been replaced in its entirety by segments of the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66", which is returning to some maps. Several states have adopted significant bypassed sections of the former US 66 into the state road network as State Route 66.

While American routes and highways may seem culturally irrelevant, Route 66 proved that route marker signs and American roads have a colorful history and an iconic significance in American culture, and there may never be an equivalent to the legacy of Route 66.

The routes are ever-changing, but the signs have all stayed the exact same.

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PIKE PLACE Pike Place Market is located in Seatle, Washington.

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The Market is located roughly in the northwest corner of Seattle’s central business district. To its north is Belltown.

To its southwest are the central waterfront and Elliott Bay. Boundaries are diagonal to the compass since the street grid is roughly parallel to the Elliott Bay shoreline.

As is common with Seattle neighborhoods and districts, different people and organizations draw different boundaries for the Market. The City Clerk’s Neighborhood Map Atlas gives one of the more expansive definitions, defining a “Pike-Market” neighborhood extending from Union Street northwest to Virginia Street and from the waterfront northeast to Second Avenue. Despite coming from the City Clerk’s office, this definition has no special official status.

The sign uses a type of art deco font and incorperates a large clock into its design. The sign is made partially of neon tubing which will illuminate it during the busy hours of the night in all of Seattle.

The sign, erected around 1930, was obviously built and designed by someone who understand typography. The condensed low-waisted letters, elegant and iconic, spelling out “Public Market Center,” feel both modern and old, and elegant in a gorgeous, homey way. It’s very familiar. The sign is a bit like a word that you repeat over and over until it becomes alien: imagine the sign not being there, and then imagine being the person looking up into that vacuum between buildings and knowing that the right way to fill that space is big letters and a clock.

Before the creation of the Pike Place Market in 1907, local Seattle area farmers sold their goods to the public in a three-square block area called The Lots, located at Sixth Avenue and King Street.

Most produce sold at The Lots would then be brought to commercial wholesale houses on Western Avenue, which became known as Produce Row. Most farmers, due to the amount of time required to work their farms, were forced to sell their produce on consignment through the wholesalers on Western Avenue. The farmers typically received a percentage of the final sale price for their goods. They would sell to the middleman on commission, as most farmers would often have no time to sell direct to the public, and their earnings would be on marked up prices and expected sales. In some cases, the farmers made a profit, but just as often found themselves breaking even, or getting no money at all due to the business practices of the wholesalers. During the existence of the wholesale houses, which far predated the Market, there were regular rumors as well as instances of corruption in denying payment to farmers.

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FISHERMANS WHARF Fishermans Wharf is located in San Francisco, California.

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At the corner of Pier 39 and Hyde Pier is a classic sign that marks the importance of Fisherman’s Wharf for the city’s past and it’s present. Like much of California’s history, San Francisco saw a huge population growth during the California Gold Rush. It wasn’t long before immigrant fisherman recognized an opporunity to sell their catch to the hungry gold miners. Later, Henry Meiggs, who was a dealer in lumber capitalized on the city and bay’s increase in business and built several piers to harbor the fishing boats. In 1935, when restaurants began to grow wise to the potential of the pier and it’s fishermen, they began to serve freshly caught fish to their customers.

Finally, in 1978, the pier began to turn towards the tourist attraction of today which is probably around the time when the sign itself was erected.

The sign includes many iconographic and typographic details.

First off, the sign is in the shape of a ship sttering wheel, which pays tribute to the fact that it is located on the north western coast of the United States. Another pictoral detain included in this design is, of course, the crab located right in the center of the sign. This crab draws a lot of attention because of its difference in color compared to the rest of the sign. Every other part of the design is a muted brown or white color, except for this crab.

Written on the outside circle, encircling the crab, is the text “Fishermans Wharf of San Francisco”. This sign is used as an enterance intoF Fishermans Wharf, which means that the point of this text is to simply let the visitor know where they are. Although this sign is full of design, its main goal is to attract visitors and let them know where they are located.

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HOLLYWOOD The Hollywood sign is located in Hollywood, California.

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It was built on Mt. Lee in the Santa Monica Mountains in 1923, originally, and famously, as an advertisement for a housing development called Hollywoodland, which the original sign spelled out, originally lit with four thousand bulbs. There are a lot of fun little details about the building of the sign, such as the fact that it was hauled up there with mules and that there was a plan to light it with neon, and that it was only intended to last for a year and half, or that its caretaker accidentally destroyed the original H by driving drunk, or that the original sign was sold on eBay to artist Bill Mack. But for now let us discuss the type.

The fact that it’s a sort of blocky sans serif is notable, as, in 1923, Deco and Nouveau were very much in vogue. But both types tends toward elegant curves and narrow curlicues, and this sign was to be built of barn roofing attached to telephone poles. Its builder, George Roche, was an ad man with a reported background in typography, and it is fair to assume he had a hand in the development the signature font. The design of the sign is typically credited to Thomas Fisk Goff, who owned the Crescent Sign Company and was an expressionist painter who especially favored barns; I suspect the project was more of a group effort than is credited, and would be curious, if I can track it down, to see Roche’s original design.

In the meanwhile, the completed sign was constructed with lettering that is a bit similar to a typeface called ITC Machine; were one to want to make due, one might be able to pass off this font as the one on the sign. But as this detailed thread on MyFonts.com points out, any type fan worth their salt will quickly spot the substitution. As it happens, one of the participants on the thread went ahead and made their own version, and any really dedicated designer should be able to turn this into a digital typeface for their favorite design program. Participants on the thread also point ouwt the uncanny similarity between the O in the Hollywood sign and the 0 on the side of the General Lee, the car driven by the “Dukes of Hazard,” and speculate that this may not be a coincidence: “[T]he first promotional photos of the General Lee in 1978 took place in Griffith Park. At this time, the General Lee did not have the ‘01’ on its doors yet (because no one had thought of it yet). The Hollywood Sign can be clearly seen from Griffith Park. Plus it was 1978, the year they rebuilt the Hollywood Sign with celebrity donations and much fanfare (which also coincided with Hollywood’s 75th anniversary), so a lot of public attention was on the sign at that time. This makes me think that whoever designed the General Lee’s ‘01’ copied it from the Hollywood Sign.

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BEVERLY HILLS Beverly Hills signs are located in Beverly Hills, California.

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Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. Specifically, Beverly Hills is bordered on the northwest by the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air and the Santa Monica Mountains, on the east by West Hollywood, the Carthay neighborhood of Los Angeles, and the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, and on the south by the Beverlywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The area's "Platinum Triangle" is formed by the city of Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel Air and Holmby Hills.

In spite of the city's name, most residents live in the "flats" of Beverly Hills, which is a relatively flat land that slants towards the hills, and includes all of Beverly Hills itself. The houses situated in the hillside north of Sunset Boulevard have a much higher value than the average housing price for the rest of the city. Santa Monica Boulevard divides the "flats" into two areas, locally known as "North or South of the tracks," referring to the train tracks that were once used by the old Pacific Electric streetcar line that traversed Beverly Hills along Santa Monica Blvd. Houses south of Wilshire Boulevard have more urban square and rectangular lots, in general smaller than those to the north. There are also more apartment buildings south of Wilshire Blvd. than anywhere else in Beverly Hills, and the average house value south of Wilshire is the lowest in Beverly Hills. Nearly all businesses and government offices in Beverly Hills are located south of Santa Monica Blvd. Two notable exceptions are the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Just outside the city limits to the west lies the Los Angeles Country Club. Other locations commonly associated with Beverly Hills include the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Beverly Center, just outside the city limits to the east.

There are many locations of this sign located throughout the Beverly Hills area, along with one massive Beverly Hills sign that is used as an enterance into the local park. The reason this sign was chosen instead of the other sign, is due to its unique shape. Unlike other road or highway signs, the Beverly Hills shield sign has a very unique shape to it. It looks like an upside down triangle with flat ends, which does not resemble other popular road signs.

The typeface chosen for this shield sign and the large entry sign are both the same capitalized san serif, although the entry way sign is slightly more bold. These signs are so widely popular is because of its elegance, and the fact that it identifies a very high end, rich neighborhood. Many people who are visiting the Los Angeles area wish to travel to this neighborhood to see its grand apperance, and take pictures of thesigns in order to show that they have been to this area.

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LAS VEGAS The Las Vegas sign is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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The sign is a 25-foot-tall classic pole design, mounted offset on two flat poles which are joined by a cross piece at the top. The poles extend above the top of the sign.

The sign is a horizontally stretched diamond shape, with the top and bottom angles pointed while the side angles are rounded. It is double backed, internally lit, with a border of flashing and chasing yellow incandescent bulbs outside around the perimeter. In a nod to Nevada’s nickname as “the Silver State,” across the top of the sign are white neon circles, designed to represent silver dollars. The circles each contain a red painted letter, outlined in neon, which together form the word “Welcome.” Crowning the sign, located between the two poles and just under the crosspiece is an eight-pointed, red-painted metal star outlined with yellow neon.

The intersecting vertical and horizontal lines of the star extend over and wrap around the frame that is created by the two poles and the cross piece, which give the star a dynamic, explosive appearance. The cabinet is faced with translucent white plastic and covered with blue and red painted text. The south side of the sign reads “Welcome” inside the silver dollars, with “to Fabulous” in blue, in a 1950s-style cursive, underneath. The words “Las Vegas” are on the next line in red, all capitalized, and large, almost filling the width of the sign. Under “Las Vegas” is the word “Nevada” in blue, all capitalized, in a much smaller font. On the back or north side, which is less frequently photographed and thus is lesser known, the sign reads “Drive” on the top line and “Carefully” on the second in red capital letters, with “Come Back” in blue on the third line, in script, and “Soon” all capitalized in blue on the fourth line. The design is characteristic of the Googie architecture movement.

Betty Willis intended to design a sign that was unique in its shape, style and content. Legend has been written that “Willis considered this her gift to the city and wanted it to be in the public domain.” In fact, Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) currently owns the sign, which leases to Clark County. The sign has never been copyrighted; this has resulted in the image being ubiquitous on Las Vegas souvenirs.

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL HIGHWAY The Extraterrestrial Highway is located in Nevada.

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Nevada State Highway 375 stretches for 98 miles from US-93 in the southeast to US-6 in the northwest. It crosses three large high desert valleys in south central Nevada: Tikaboo Valley, Sand Spring Valley and Railroad Valley. Except for a couple of ranches, the town of Rachel is the only settlement along the way.

In April 1996 Nevada State Highway 375 was officially named the Extraterrestrial Highway for the many UFO sightings along this lonely stretch of road. The highway is close to the mysterious Area 51, a super-secret Air Force test facility, and in the 1980’s and 1990’s there have been many sightings of unidentified objects near the base. Even today visitors and locals alike often see strange lights in the night-sky while driving down the highway.

The E.T. Highway can easily be visited in a day-trip from Las Vegas. Or make it a two-day round trip, coming up on US-93, then travelling the full length of the E.T. Highway from Crystal Springs via Rachel to Warm Springs, and return to Las Vegas via Tonopah and the US-95.

The top-secret Area 51 government base is near SR 375, and many travelers have reported UFO observations and other strange alien activity along this road. Such stories prompted the state to officially designate the route as the Extraterrestrial Highway in 1996. The small town of Rachel, located near the midpoint of the highway, caters to tourists, geocachers, and UFO seekers with alien-themed businesses. Although the area receives some tourism due to alleged extraterrestrial activity, SR 375 remains a lightly traveled route.

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MID & WEST

THE SOUTH

WRIGLEY

Wrigley Field is commissioned by the Federated Sign Company of Chicago and installed in 1934, the marquee’s initial purpose was advertising, Cubs historian Ed Hartig said. The Cubs relied heavily on day-ofgame ticket sales -- holding 25,000 of the then 40,000 ticket capacity for such sale -- and used the marquee to promote that day’s game.

The marquee, at first colored fern green, originally read, “Wrigley Field, Home of the Cubs,” and featured the same cascading soft curved lines still seen today.

Although placing an elegant marquee at the main entrance makes sense, the sign did not fit the corner of Clark and Addison in 1934. A coal yard sat across Clark Street, sending smoke and dust into the air. Train tracks were also across from the ballpark, making the area surrounding Wrigley Field’s main entrance anything but distinguished.

“It was not a glamorous place,” Shea said. “The intersection was loud. There was pedestrian traffic, automobile traffic, trains. So it was kind of interesting that they chose to put it there. Obviously, they needed to have something, because it was the main entrance to the ballpark, but putting something so beautiful there is surprising in retrospect.”

The marquee was painted dark blue a year or two after its installation, and by 1939, “the” was swapped for “Chicago” and the marquee’s message has since read the same, except in autumns through 1970, when Chicago’s NFL team called Wrigley home and “Cubs” was swapped for “Bears.”

The marquee received its familiar coat of red paint in the mid-1960s, and it has seen other changes throughout the years. The electronic message board was added in the early 1980s, the Budweiser logo appeared beneath it for a few seasons in the ‘80s, and other banners have surrounded it over the past few years. It has also read “National League champions” following the Cubs’ pennant-winning seasons, and for about a week in 2010, it was painted purple when Northwestern hosted a football game at Wrigley Field.

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FIELD

Wrigley Field is located in Chicago, Illinois.

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CHICAGO

The Chicago Theater is located in Chicago, Illinois.

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THEATER

With the city of Chicago’s municipal device tucked away in the marquee, there is arguably no other sign that is more Chicago than that of the Chicago Theater.

The sign and the building were designed in 1921 by Chicago architects Cornelius and George Rapp, who were also responsible for the whimsical gems of the Oriental and Uptown Theatres, and built by Barney and A.J. Balaban and Sam and Morris Katz. Most of Chicago’s old theaters carried luminous vertical signs as a distinguishing mark, but the Chicago Theatre sign has outlasted all of its local competitors and is one of the oldest of its kind in the U.S. “It is an important piece of architecture to the city and the nation,” said Charles Thurow, deputy commissioner of the city’s Department of Planning and Development. “It’s an excellent example of the 1920s’ fantasy architecture. It represents big, old movie houses.”

At the time of the building’s 1978 application for the National Register of Historic Places designation, the venue’s marquee had been replaced twice. The original marquee was basic and facilitated two lines of text for announcements. The 1922–1923 marquee had ornate “flashing pinwheels, swirls and garlands of colored lights”.

It also included “milk glass letter attraction boards, and CHICAGO in large letters on three sides”. The 1949 replacement was similar to the second marquee, but its attraction boards were larger and the oversized CHICAGO lettering only appeared on the front.

Until Balaban and Katz’ 1969 sale to the American Broadcasting Company, their name was on the marqee. The entire marquee was replaced in 1994, but retains the look of its predecessor. In 2004, the original marquee was donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

The marquee is featured in numerous movies and TV shows set in Chicago, and its neon font was used in the title of the 2002 film Chicago. This sign is one of hte most iconic in all of Chicago.

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BOURBON Bourbon Street (French: Rue Bourbon, Spanish: Calle Bourbon) is a street in the heart of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter, in New Orleans, Louisiana. It extends 13 blocks from Canal to Esplanade Avenue. Known for its bars and strip clubs, Bourbon Street’s history provides a rich insight into New Orleans’ past.

Given Bourbon Street’s high-ground location in the French Quarter, it was mostly intact following 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. A major tourist attraction, Bourbon Street renovation was given high priority after the storm. However, New Orleans was still experiencing a dearth of visitors. In 2004, the year before Katrina, the city had 10.1 million visitors. The year after the storm, that number was 3.7 million.

Efforts to draw visitors back to the city were initiated by the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, featuring celebrities such as Emeril Lagasse and Patricia Clarkson with the slogan, “Come fall In love with Louisiana all over again.” (One third of the city’s operating budget, approximately $6 billion, came from visitors and conventions; officials saw the tourist draw as vital for post-disaster economic recovery.) Travelers heard mixed messages in the media.

Advertising campaigns gave the impression that New Orleans was thriving, while city leaders asked for increased Federal financial assistance and National Guard troops to help control municipal crime waves.

New Orleans has been working its way back to pre-Katrina tourist numbers as it attracted 7.9 million visitors in 2009 and 9.5 million in 2014. In April 2017, the 100 block of Bourbon Street was closed off for reconstruction of the street and its underground utilities as part of the city’s $6 million French Quarter infrastructure project.

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STREET

Bourbon Street is located in New Orleans, Louisianna

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Key West is located in Key West, Flordia.

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KEY WEST Key West is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States. Key West is the southernmost city in the contiguous United States. The island is about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, with a total land mass of 4.2 square miles. Duval Street, its main street, is 1.1 miles in length in its 14-block-long crossing from the Gulf of Mexico to the Straits of Florida and the Atlantic Ocean. Key West is about 95 miles north of Cuba at their closest points.

The city is the county seat of Monroe County.

The city boundaries include the island of Key West and all or part of several nearby islands: Sigsbee Park, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Island. The total land area of the city is 5.6 square miles. Key West is the southern terminus of U.S. Route 1, State Road A1A, the East Coast Greenway and, before 1935, the Florida East Coast Railway.

Key West is 129 miles southwest of Miami by air, about 160 miles by car, and 106 miles north-northeast of Havana. Key West is a port of call for many passenger cruise ships.The Key West International Airport provides airline service. Naval Air Station Key West is an important year round training site for naval aviation due to the tropical weather, which is also the reason Key West was chosen as the Winter White House of President Harry S. Truman. The central business district is located along Duval Street and includes much of the northwestern corner of the island. The official city motto is “One Human Family.�

This wooden sign is essembled of multiple different plaques that each contain the milage to different geographic locations.

This sign, or more accurately, these signs, are made up of wood, and what appears to be hand wirrten paint. Each location is shown in a different color, and the text contains a light stroke of a different color.

The mix matching colors help give this signs its beachy aesthetic, and help make it more appealing to its visitors. This sign is a very popular tourist attraction and has seen its fair share of selfies and photographs. Many copy-cat signs have been created in tribute to this sign, as well as numerious gift-shope styled memorebilia. There are a large number of other signs located in the area of Key West, due to the fact that it is the southern most end of the United States. There a a number of markers to dictate the location of the town, as well as the exact southern most part of the States.

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EAST

COAST

Although is sign itself is not more popular than the streets themselves, both Broadway and Wall Street are home to some of the most visited places in New York City, and the fact that they intersect at this location makes this a popular stop for pictues.

Broadway runs from State Street at Bowling Green for 13 mi through the borough of Manhattan and 2 mi through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional 18 mi through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement, although most of it did not bear its current name until the late 19th century. The name Broadway is the English language literal translation of the Dutch name, Brede weg.Broadway in Manhattan is known widely as the heart of the American theatre industry, and is used as a metonym for it.

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York–based financial interests.

Anchored by Wall Street, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the city is home to the world’s two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. vSeveral other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange.

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BROADWAY & WALL STREET

Broadway and Wall Street is located in New York City, New York.

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When the stock market crashed in 1929, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. held a $91 million, 24-year lease on a piece of midtown Manhattan property properly known as “the speakeasy belt.” Plans to gentrify the neighborhood by building a new Metropolitan Opera House on the site were dashed by the failing economy and the business outlook was dim.

Nevertheless, Rockefeller made a bold decision that would leave a lasting impact on the city’s architectural and cultural landscape. He decided to build an entire complex of buildings on the property-buildings so superior that they would attract commercial tenants even in a depressed city flooded with vacant rental space. The project would express the highest ideals of architecture and design and stand as a symbol of optimism and hope.

Donald Deskey wasn’t the most celebrated interior designer to enter the competition for design of the Music Hall’s interior spaces. In fact, he was relatively unknown. But from the moment opening night visitors passed through the lobby and entered the Grand Foyer, his popular legacy was secured. In his design for the Hall, Deskey chose elegance over excess, grandeur above glitz.

He designed more than thirty separate spaces, including eight lounges and smoking rooms, each with its own motif. Given general theme, he created a stunning tribute to “human achievement in art, science and industry. He made art an integral part of the design, engaging fine artists to create murals, wall coverings and sculpture; textile designers to develop draperies and carpets; craftsmen to make ceramics, wood panels and chandeliers.

Deskey himself designed furniture and carpets, and he coordinated the design of railings, balustrades, signage and decorative details to complement the theatre’s interior spaces. He used a brilliant combination of precious materials (including marble and gold foil), and industrial materials (including Bakelite, permatex, aluminum and cork).

The strength of his achievement is reflected in how well the theatre has maintained its character over time. It was a remarkable example of contemporary design in its day and it still has the power to take the breath away. It remains an elegant, sophisticated, unified tour de force.

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RADIO CITY

MUSIC HALL

Radio City Music Hall is located in New York City, New York.

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GIVE ME A SIGN

THE ULTIMATE ROAD MAP

Are you bored this season? Do you want to go out and explore new places? You’re in luck! This book contains a list of the best signs to visit around the U.S.A., from the west all the way to the east. So grab some snacks and your keys and lets get moving!