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BACK TO 1983 — When Life Was Slower // Best Chillwave & Vaporwave Mix.
(This iconic photograph by Stephen Shore captures a nostalgic slice of Americana on East Speedway Boulevard in Tucson, Arizona. Looking east from Country Club Road, the image showcases a "neon forest" of towering commercial signs and mid-century billboards competing for space under the desert sky.
Once infamously labeled "the ugliest street in America" due to this visual chaos, the scene serves as a time capsule of vintage car culture and suburban expansion. The dense layering of signs—advertising everything from banks to gas stations—creates a surreal, compressed landscape that defined the era's commercial identity.
Today, this view has been completely transformed. Modern sign ordinances have replaced the massive neon displays with smaller, low-profile markers, and the "neon jungle" has evolved into a standard, landscaped urban thoroughfare.

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