Ovaltine Cafe (1942)

249-251 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada The exuberant Ovaltine Cafe neon signage with its exclusive arrow-formed projecting signal, designed by Wallace Neon in 1942, evokes the 1940s and 1950s, Vancouver’s ‘golden age’ of neon, when there was reportedly extra neon in Vancouver than anyplace in the planet, apart from for Shanghai, China. The interior of… Continue reading Ovaltine Cafe (1942)