The owner, a fan of all things antique, last weekend put up a 1940s-era sign salvaged from a restaurant in New York City.

After the old-school Irish bar closed its doors for the last time, the hulking neon sign that served as a fixture of W44th Street for decades went dark. One of the few remaining landmarks from the ...

In the film, a grieving widow takes up her late husband’s trade of making neon signs. Public safety concerns grew in the 2000s after incidents of ageing signboards falling on pedestrians.