The Fremont Rocket was constructed using a 1950s rocket which had graced a defunct surplus shop in Belltown. Rodman Miller did the neon, John Hoge and Jon Hegeman produced the metalwork and paint, and Quentin Lickliter painted a mural of the blast-off cloud and whirling galaxies on the walls below.
The Rocket was erected with much fanfare in 1994, funded through the Fremont Chamber of Commerce; its nozzles ooze clouds of vapor at regular intervals through the day. It graces the corner of the Ah Nuts junk shop, overlooking the lot where the Fremont Almost Free Cinema screenings take place during the summer, and which hosts the Fremont Sunday Market and Flea Market.
Photo copyright © 1996 by Larry Neilson.
The Fremont Rocket was constructed using a 1950s rocket which had graced a defunct surplus shop in Belltown. Rodman Miller did the neon, John Hoge and Jon Hegeman produced the metalwork and paint, and Quentin Lickliter painted a mural of the blast-off cloud and whirling galaxies on the walls below.
The Rocket was erected with much fanfare in 1994, funded through the Fremont Chamber of Commerce; its nozzles ooze clouds of vapor at regular intervals through the day. It graces the corner of the Ah Nuts junk shop, overlooking the lot where the Fremont Almost Free Cinema screenings take place during the summer, and which hosts the Fremont Sunday Market and Flea Market.
Photo copyright © 1996 by Larry Neilson.
