Some of the neon lighting has been removed from the Walt Disney Presents marquee in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Walt Disney Presents Neon The neon light tubing is gone from the word “Presents” — ...

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 ...

You can find massive, colorful neon structures by local light sculptor Craig Kraft glowing outside of Shaw Library and Downtown Silver Spring, but his newest project is a bit more unassuming.High on ...

Miami was the greatest thing to happen to neon,” Telesco, a 38-year-old West Havener with 11 years on the sign-installation beat, said during a while-working conversation on the “ Word on the Street” ...

There were once enough neon craftspeople in Philadelphia to sustain a local industry and keep prices low enough for even small businesses to afford. “I hate the word nostalgia,” Davidson said in 2021 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Often associated with seedy motels, strip clubs and Raymond Chandler novels, neon signs and even high art are making a surprising comeback in the Bay. Skip to content. All Sections.