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The Museum of Neon Art will open its Pomona storage warehouse, housing 250 to 300 enormous pieces, ... “Neon signs open up this huge array of other topics,” Weber says.
It’s thought the very first neon sign in America was erected in San Francisco in 1923 for a car dealership on Van Ness Avenue. ... “Neon is not seen so much as a fine art form.
The art of neon lights is still alive and well. You can call them glowing, luminous or even blazing, ... At WeWork, nearly 1,000 neon signs are hung up in their 425 different locations.
Born in Tiffin, Ohio, Flechtner had an early interest in colored light and electronics. He incorporated some of these ...
But neon signs, once a vital part of a city's culture and barometer for its economic climate, ... Photos: The dying art of the neon sign Arts. Aug 21, 2015 3:21 PM EDT ...
Neon signs and art pieces have decorated Los Angeles since the 1920s, according to officials from the Museum of Neon Art. The museum, located in Glendale with a warehouse in Pomona, works to ...
The Museum of Neon Art opened its doors in downtown Los Angeles in 1981 -- long before the city center was fashionable. For much of this time, the museum has moved around the area, looking for a ...
"[A]fter World War II, as neon signs were replaced increasingly by fluorescent-lighted plastic, the art of bending colored tubes into sinuous, gas-filled forms began to wane," writes Margalit Fox ...
The Sandman Motel’s large blue sign and the 5 Points Liquor Market’s a blue and red sign with a directional arrow were recently hauled up to the Museum of Neon Art.
The neon sign on the iconic 4th Avenue Theater is darkened on the shuttered theater along 4th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News) ...
John Nyman came on board at roughly the same time as the company's main neon sign craftsman. In the early 1990s, Nyman left Billings Neon to launch Nyman Neon, which he's been doing now for 27 years.
One of Denver’s best-known neon sign-makers, Morry’s Neon, has seen a “surge of requests” for them recently, said Tina Weseloh, who helps run the long-standing, family-owned business.