San Francisco Neon Survivors and Lost Icons Book

Softcover book with 200+ photographs. Features include: San Francisco/photography essay by local award-winning travel writer Tom Downs. Neon preservation notes by neon sign art expert Eric Lynxwiler. Endnotes section with local stories, oral history, and rich details on 45 iconic neon signs by photographers and essayists. Index by neighborhood to give readers a sense of which neighborhoods still have clusters of neon, and which neighborhoods have lost all but one or two surviving signs. Neon condition to give readers indication which signs are illuminated nightly, which signs do not light up and need restoration, and which signs are lost icons.