Neon signs used to be everywhere - but they were especially prevalent as bright beacons calling hungry travelers to American ...

To Wartman's right, large windows separate the shop from a cavernous room full of giant neon signs. That's the Sign Museum, which saw about 60,000 visitors last year.

"Neon really hit the U.S. in the late 1920s," Swormstedt says. "By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least one neon sign." Keeping the trade alive. By the late 1960s, the introduction of ...

30 Rock is replacing its iconic neon lights with LEDs in the coming year. nyc.gov. The storied building is also swapping out its blue neon “Observation Deck” lettering in favor of LED “Top ...

Neon signs operate through a simple, yet elegant, mechanism. Glass tubes are filled with noble gases such as neon or argon. When high voltage is applied, the gas becomes ionized, emitting light ...

Enter the nondescript Neon Works warehouse in North Oakland, and you’ll find yourself suddenly immersed in rainbow light. It’s as if a time-warping tornado from the 1950s Bay Area wrapped all ...

Old Signs N Stuff in Gardner, Massachusetts, builds neon signs exclusively for private collections and museums. Made in New England: The art of neon sign collecting and creating ...

Watson’s Flowers: The 30-foot neon sign was installed at 2525 W. Main St. in the 1950s and collapsed in a windstorm in 2014. ... Historic signs to light up downtown Mesa at Neon Garden installment.

Below are seven neon signs around the city that have recently faced lights out. One succumbed, one still glows brightly and some were salvaged or may yet be. The future of several remains uncertain.