San Antonio long has had an impressive collection of commercial neon signs promoting office buildings, bars, tattoo parlors and other businesses. Unfortunately, many of the most fondly remembered ...

In an effort to connect the present business landscape of downtown Mesa with the past, business owners are being encouraged to put up neon signs – and the city is giving out money to make it happen.

In Las Vegas, giant, elaborate signs flash and blink at casinos. Las Vegas Boulevard is lined with vintage signs that remind drivers and pedestrians of bygone businesses. The city is home to The Neon ...

The paper plans tacked up on the gridded wire wall show the cheeky message a customer wants to immortalize on a neon sign: “Be a Badass with a Good Ass.” Tucked away inside a bright white, clean space ...

If you’ve ever looked at a flickering neon sign and thought, I bet I could make one of those, be advised: You almost certainly could not. At once a science and an art, neon demands an artisan’s ...

“When you collect big things, people notice,” Vangie Osborn, creator of the upcoming Signs of Our Times gallery, said. In the very near future, one area of downtown Boise will start to look quite ...

PROTECT A TREASURED EXAMPLE OF AMERICANA. THE GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, KNOWN AS THE CHAIR CITY. BUT NOW IT MIGHT JUST BE ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING THE NEON SIGN CITY. WELCOME TO A PLACE WHERE ...

Phoenix neon signs have been part of the city’s visual DNA for decades. Long before LED signage and digital billboards took over, glowing motel marquees, diner signs and towering roadside displays lit ...

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The Meadow Gold sign at night. TULSA, Okla. - Along Route 66, signs have always mattered. The highway’s famous shield may be the most recognizable symbol, but in Tulsa, it’s the glow of neon that ...