Profile: Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles offers tours of the city to see various neon lights

From: NPR Special | Date: June 29, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
06-29-2005
Profile: Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles offers tours of the city to see various neon lights

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
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This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick.

Coming up, beach book bingo. Summer reading recommendations from DAY TO DAY literary editor, Karen Grigsby Bates.

First, this paean to neon that comes with an online alert. If you are near a computer at the moment, go to npr.org, pull down the program tab and to go DAY TO DAY, and there is a link to some really glowing illustrations of this next story, which is ...

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