But there's no need to pull over for the hypnotic yellow beacons that grace circus trailers, double-wide mobile homes and roadside lawn mowers.
As minister of transport (1934 37), he gave his name to the "belisha beacon" (a yellow globe on a black and white post), used to mark pedestrian crossings on British roads.
The Freedom Tower, a butter-yellow Spanish Renaissance Revival-style beacon in downtown Miami, served as an immigration processing center for more than 400,000 Cubans in the 1960s; a museum is planned there.
They kept the ancient, C-shaped mahogany bar, peeling off an unwelcome layer of plastic laminate, and gave pride of place to a two-foot-high Art Deco clock whose lighted red-and-yellow face glows like a beacon.
Once you have collected all of the yellow circles, move to the green beacon to complete the level.
With its faded-looking red-brick exterior and golden yellow trim, it still sends forth a beacon over the Hudson, warning ships from as far away as Panama and Norway of the sandbar and the sharp turn that the channel makes west.
And at its center was Kulvinder Singh, a beacon of generosity in his bright yellow turban, who was practically begging passers-by to take free food off his hands.
At the foot of the mirror-flat lake, the postcard panorama is wide and wild, the big yellow cruise ship of a hotel is a beacon on the horizon.
Late works and the artist's magnum opus, "To the People of New York City" (1976)—a fifteen-part sequence of forty aluminum panels painted the German-flag colors of red, yellow, and black grace the vast, skylighted spaces of Dia:Beacon.
