Travel: March 2008 Archives

Museum pieces are sure to be well read - Los Angeles Times

The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati features rescued neon from across the country: "Visitors entering the garden are drawn to a spinning Sputnik replica that welcomed customers in the 1960s to the Satellite Shopland shopping center in Anaheim. The 6-foot-diameter plastic globe -- its metal spikes studded with colored light bulbs -- spins near a Dutch Boys Donuts windmill with rotating blue neon blades from 1950s Denver." (Hat tip to Richard Hedgecock.)

By Ken Levine: Open letter to airlines: we hate you

Communicating honestly with passengers about flight delays -- the problem isn't weather in Chicago; the pilot is waiting in a long line at Starbucks -- would go a long way to winning back public confidence. (Some vulgar expressions. Via Ace.)