I put together a detailed time lapse of the entire paint masking and weathering procedure for the big neon sign a made in my ...

Two 1950s-era signs, whose brightly lit neon once beckoned guests to the now-shuttered Chief Motel and Stardust Lodge, are for sale — prized pieces of Americana that sign aficionados say harken ...

For a new vintage-trailer motel, I created a neon sign designed after the classic, scaffold-style signs once prominent on downtown rooftops.

Locations were topped with big neon Brown Derby signs. All locations closed by the 1980s. The hat sign that topped the Vine Street location was restored by the Museum of Neon Art.

The code, created in 1966, deemed many signs to be too tall, too big or too close to the highway, said Carlos Lozano, a neon sign enthusiast and chairman of the historic landmark sign subcommittee ...

Paul Swedlund must have suffered some funny looks years ago as he drove around Rapid City in his little El Camino — a cross between a car and a pickup — with big neon signs protruding from the ...

In 2002, the sign was taken down and put into storage by Puget Sound Energy. A few years passed, and MOHAI officials told Puget Sound Energy that they didn’t want the big blue flame anymore.

Now, Broadway’s on the comeback, and a big 1940s-style red neon sign popped up just last week to make sure freeway drivers and anyone else in the area take notice. The sign, near Third Street ...

Sign in. clock This article was published more than ... Bright Lights, Big Neon in L.A. By Allison Engel. June 10, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Basking in glow business, not show business, ...

Some of our oldest extant signs date back to this pre-neon era; the Gold Medal Flour sign that is today part of the Mill City Museum was originally incandescent, and dates to 1910.

“When you collect big things, people notice,” Vangie Osborn, creator of the upcoming Signs of Our Times gallery, said. In the very near future, one area of downtown Boise will start to look ...

Beyond those two, there are five additional neon signs in the collection from the Davis Motel, Howard’s Body Shop, Canyon Lake Club, Martha’s Beauty Shop and the Horseshoe Motel, plus a vacuum ...