Here’s a very cool collection of C-U’s historic neon signs

In 2017 the Kip Pope Family donated a collection of photographs of neon signs in Champaign-Urbana from about 1939. The Champaign County History Museum recently shared this Flickr account with the images; they look incredible.

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View them for yourself at the link above.

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