Since then, Bovey's neon "Boneyard," as he's dubbed it, has grown to include familiar relics of local business history.
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"Maybe it would be helpful to start learning how to bend neon just so I can keep this stuff going." "I'm starting to accumulate a collection," he says. Then he bought neon-bending equipment from a shuttered business. "A sign company reached out to me and said, 'Hey, we've got an old hotel sign, do you want it?' And I put that on my property," Bovey says. Word soon got around town that Bovey was interested in restoring and saving old neon. "It was sustaining itself when I left there, which I didn't know if it would or not," Bovey recalls. Whenever a new design was ready, he'd hang it up in his cubicle and many Inlander staffers, myself included, would drop off $20 to grab his latest homage to an iconic locale or history: Manito Park, Expo '74, Dick's Hamburgers, The Shack and many more. While designing the Inlander's covers and editorial layout, he'd work on his hand-pulled screen prints of local landmarks as a side hobby. He was the paper's art director, but left in 2014 to focus on his increasingly popular art venture. I first met Bovey when I started at the Inlander over a decade ago.
Behind the counter are the Vintage Print archives, containing all that's currently in stock of the more than 500 or so designs he's created. Among Bovey's own art and art-making tools - he moved his screenprinting studio from his Medical Lake home - are remnants of retro advertising signage, salvaged industrial fixtures and neon-lit signs.Īt the back of the store, a magnetic wall displays dozens of Bovey's place-specific designs for his popular 13-by-19-inch poster series, including old, new and perpetually popular tributes. The space as a whole is an eclectic homage to local history, art and design.
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