Naming God's Own Junkyard

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a

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name as iconic as his Neon Chris was

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sitting at the desk one evening he

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shouts out Euphoria you know um I've um

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I've got a name and he said it was God's

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Own junkyard he was looking at an

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article by an American architect called

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Peter Blake and he was actually saying

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that uh all the Big Sky signs Motel

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signs gas station signs mainly through

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Route 66 were making God's own country

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into God's Own

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junkyard and Chris just said great

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that's it fantastic that's us Chris's

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work can still be seen around the

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Streets of London but over the years the

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demand for neon has fallen as shop

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fronts and street corners off for new

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attack like

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LED I think that neon signs uh

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to some extent will become rare there's

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only one neon powder company left in the

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world making the powders for the glass

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so if they don't make the powder you

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can't get these different colors what

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everyone's saying is that neon signs are

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going to be worth more money than

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gold in about 10 years we could be

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sitting on a gold mine making these

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one-off signs isn't a walk in the park

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each one takes hours of love and craft

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it's a