It had turned the night sky red in that year of 1928.1 In its natural state neon gas is unremarkable, without colour or smell, something for the chemist rather than firefighters. When he said it was, the fireman assured him that it was not flames lighting up the night but the neon sign of the Florence Hotel in Missoula.
Then he asked the caller whether what he thought was a blaze was long and rectangular. He reported a glow right over Missoula he was so beside himself that the fireman had trouble calming him down. A man was calling from Rattlesnake Gulch, 26 km away. The telephone rang at the fire department headquarters in Missoula, Montana, way out on the American prairie. Title 621.3’275’09-dc23 isbn 978 1 78023 091 7ġ R DN 7 2 ROSES ARE BLOOMING IN MANHATTAN 23 3 N WILDERNESS 53 4 LAS VEGAS: CITY OF LIGHTS 5 GREEN FINGERS 101 6 ART FROM TUBES 127 7 LISTE I 151 REFERENCES 169 BIBLIOGRAPHY 197 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 214 PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 215 INDEX 216Ī Call from Rattlesnake Gulch The town seemed to be burning. Printed and bound in China British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Ribbat, Christoph. First published in English 2013 Translated by Anthony Mathews English-language translation © Reaktion Books 2013 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be translated, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Die Geschichte des Neonlichts Christoph Ribbat © 2011 Franz Steiner Verlag, Birkenwaldstrasse 44, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany All rights reserved The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International – Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society vg wort and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association). Published by Reaktion Books Ltd 33 Great Sutton Street London ec1v 0dx, uk Flackernde Moderne.
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