Neon beer signs were produced in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, but only in small numbers. Many were mass-produced in the 1980s, and you can tell the difference by examining the metal backings and any ...

'Neon signs' made with bacteria. Dec. 19, 2011, 6:06 PM EST. By John Roach, Contributing Writer, ... get to the scale where it could spell your favorite brand of beer for display in a bar window, ...

In cities, they gaped at neon — and it was everything. Between the 1930s and the 1970s, neon signs were a potent American symbol for both glamour and depravity, hope and desolation.

This fixture of the White Rock Lake area of East Dallas has whipped up its homemade root beer since 1956. The throwback “Ette ...

Neon illuminated 33 percent of signs in 2007 and LEDs illuminated 23 percent, according to a survey by trade magazine Signs of the Times. By 2010, LEDs accounted for nearly half, with neon at 18 ...

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.

Neon glows from the giant root beer mug over the LaPlace Frostop on Airline Highway prior to Hurricane Ida, which blew the vintage sign down. (Contributed photo from Terry Toler) ...

Between open signs, advertisements for beer brands and theatre marquees, neon literally lights up our lives. You can find neon signs almost everywhere you look in NYC—even in your own apartment ...