Nashville: Signage

My favorite part of any city is usually the signage, and Nashville was no exception. My dad and I met in Nashville for a Memorial Day/dad's birthday father-daughter weekend trip, and we had a great time. The first store we went in was the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, which had an incredible sign that not only rotated, but included neon and a replaceable-letter marquee.

It was impossible not to be enamored with all of the neon signs downtown—cowboy boots, cowgirls, guitars, flying pigs. It's really hard to pick a favorite, but the flying pigs and the Hats/Boots cowboy were ones that had me majorly swooning. As with any proper sign, they looked great in the daytime as well as when they were lit up at night—the pigs even flashed in sequence to make it look as if they were really flying.

The signs aren't exclusively limited to downtown, of course, and there were great ones wherever we went in the city. Printer's Alley had a few really wonderful ones—neon and hand-painted. I'm not sure how many of the signs are original/vintage and how many are new, but even the ones that I suspect are new were still really beautiful.

I loved all of the western-style typography, but my very favorite sign was the one for the Dejà Vu Showgirls Gentleman's club. We drove by it a few times and when we finally walked by it I was so happy that I was able to get a picture of it in all of its neon-pink, fishnet-ed, classic-script glory.