The 80-foot neon sign featuring three stages of a diving lady at the Starlite Motel, 2710 E. Main St., also informally known as the Diving Lady Motel, came crashing down about 2 p.m. Oct. 5 during ...

The Diving Lady neon sign came crashing down into the motel parking lot during a thunderstorm Oct. 5 when a weakened welding point that had been previously repaired snapped.

The nearly 80-foot tall Diving Lady neon sign at the Starlite Motel, which had stood strong for more than 50 years, crashed down in the parking lot after a big thunderstorm. People thought that ...

In the 1960s, with the first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, urging “beautification” of the nation, ... A midcentury neon sign, custom made for the release of “Joan of Arc.” Dec. 11, 1948.

Lady Bird Johnson’s “Landscape-Landmark Tour” bus tour of Virginia on May 11, ... “Back in the heyday, Broad Street and the core city of Richmond was loaded with neon signs.

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.

Forty neon signs that once drew visitors to some of Las Vegas' most iconic casino-hotels and other venues will shine again for the public starting Thursday night at the Neon Museum, but not a ...

Forty neon signs that once drew visitors to some of Las Vegas' most iconic casino-hotels and other venues will shine again for the public starting Thursday night at the Neon Museum, but not a ...

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