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 ...

The saying goes, “Bright Lights, Big City” — and classic neon signs are a shining beacon of that legacy. But due to rent increases that are shuttering old-school establishments and cheap LED ...

The first big neon project Signmakers did was a brand new sign for Universal CityWalk in the early 2000s. It was of a face of a woman with Medusa-like hair that instead of snakes were made up of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Stardust, when it opened, set a standard for size, more than 1,000 rooms and the big neon sign,” he said. “At the time, it seemed enormous.

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.

Randy Dixon, chairman of the Relight the Night committee, looks down Main Street Pocatello at work that the group has already accomplished to relight neon signs in this file photo.