{"id":98880882,"date":"2011-11-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/san-francisco-s-iconic-yahoo-sign-may-be-history\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:05:58","slug":"san-francisco-s-iconic-yahoo-sign-may-be-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/san-francisco-s-iconic-yahoo-sign-may-be-history\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s Iconic Yahoo! Sign May Be History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo!\u2019s beloved neon sign in San Francisco may soon be gone for good. The motel-style ad has been a San Fran staple since 1999, a relic of the days of booming dot-coms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The neon sign proudly proclaimed Yahoo! a \u201cgood place to stay on the Internet.\u201d A marquee below allowed Yahoo! to advertise new features and \u201cspeak\u201d to San Francisco on special occasions like holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, more than a decade of tourist photo-ops may come to an end on December 1. Clear Channel, the company who rents out the ad space, has made the space available beginning December 1, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though there has been significant nerd outrage since word leaked out, it seems unlikely that the sign can be saved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/11\/18\/BATP1M0Q24.DTL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">San Francisco Chronicle <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nCC Flickr photo credit:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27467248@N07\/4291344154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Adam Wiggins<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo!\u2019s beloved neon sign in San Francisco may soon be gone for good. The motel-style ad has been a San Fran staple since 1999, a relic of the days of booming dot-coms. &nbsp; The neon sign proudly proclaimed Yahoo! a \u201cgood place to stay on the Internet.\u201d A marquee below allowed Yahoo! to advertise new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897886,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880882\/revisions\/98897886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}