The huge billboards dotted along Las Vegas' neon-lit Strip declare it "the Fight of a Lifetime" and the long-awaited coupling of Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao next weekend has the potential to be an epic confrontation.
Music City's neon-lit strip is full of foot traffic from 10am to 3am, and bands play for tips in the dozens of bars there whenever they are open.
A few blocks from the glitzy hotel where Prince Harry cavorted in Las Vegas last year, doing his bit for its party-town image, the neon-lit strip of casinos, bars, restaurants and malls greys into a landscape he almost certainly did not see: broken pavements, empty lots, boarded-up facades.
In the front row of the dimly-lit strip club sit two clusters of fratty manboys.
Bourbon Street is the loose, neon-lit strip in New Orleans where bachelor parties on the prowl for oblivion roam with fistfuls of plastic beads.
'I am in real fear for my own life.' Beeston's romance, like so many others involving Western men escaping loneliness at home, began with a stroll down one of the hundreds of neon-lit strips in Thailand's tourist-friendly sex quarters.
It is 10 30 p.m. Cosi's is busy, Starbucks is busy, Grant's, the Elbow Room, Max's Oyster Bar, Bricco and Azul restaurants and bars that run along the brightly lit perpendicular strip of Farmington Avenue and LaSalle Road are packed.
One of those days when it keeps freezing or giving you the Blue Screen of Death and you want nothing more than to destroy it into fragmented color and back-lit, shimmering strips of screen?
We were led upstairs to the production space, lit by a buzzing strip light.
In the dank, strip-light lit interior there are rows of disused machines with cogs wrapped in cobwebs.
