The legendary Ziggie’s Music store in Phoenix closed its doors in May 2024. Nearly seven months later, the neon sign that hung outside the store at 3309 N. Third St., opened in 1956 by an ...

“One of the biggest reasons in removing them was Lady Bird Johnson, whose scrap-old-signs campaign (aka the 1965 Highway Beautification Act) actually paid people to take down neon signs.

Neon artist Kirk Tunningley preserves the glowing tradition of hand bent neon lights in a world of LED signs.

And neon signs were popping up everywhere right in the middle of it all. "Neon really hit the U.S. in the late 1920s," Swormstedt says. "By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least ...

The first neon sign was installed in New York’s Times Square om 1924 and in Las Vegas in 1928. Doby’s Hotel Court in Montgomery, Ala., in 1980. John Margolies ...

It seemed fitting that in the 1980s the world’s biggest neon sign, for Marlboro cigarettes, was in Hong Kong. Some of the neon was in English, some in Arabic, some in Japanese.

Over the past three years, the city of Mesa has given out $215,000 to a total of 32 businesses to help them install neon or neon-like signs. City officials spoke to the Business Journal to explain ...

The Broadway Hollywood sign, originally meant to draw customers to the department store. It's now a luxury apartment building. The Museum of Neon Art (MONA) helped re-light the sign.

As neon signs disappeared around the country and some environmental groups opposed them, Las Vegas doubled down and built taller, more elaborate signs. “Neon stood out and stands out,” Green said.

Inside The Neon Company studio on DeKalb Avenue, a guild of craftspeople spends their days hand-fabricating neon signs in much the same way their progenitors did a century ago. The company, which ...

A total of six neon signs will be lit up at the end of the month along Grove Street, from 15th Street to 16th Street. Long-time residents of Boise will be able to recall some of the past ...