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I put together a detailed time lapse of the entire paint masking and weathering procedure for the big neon sign a made in my ...
The historic Tujague's sign, which has been at the center of controvery for four years, has been removed and is sitting in a ...
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 ...
Last year, Mr. Friedman, of Let There Be Neon, got a call from J.J. Hat Center offering him a big antique neon Stetson Hats sign. When he got a good look at it, he was flabbergasted to discover ...
The Neon Garden will showcase six signs outside The Post, each a glowing piece of Main Street history. There’s the towering, bloom-covered display from Watson’s Flowers, which came down in 2014.
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.
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 legendary Ziggie’s Music store in Phoenix closed its doors in May 2024. Nearly seven months later, the neon sign that hung outside the store at 3309 N. Third St., opened in 1956 by an ...
30 Rock is ditching its iconic neon signs prominently plastered across Saturday Night Live’s opening credits in favor of their eco-friendly LED cousins — a move that some are mourning as the ...
And neon signs were popping up everywhere right in the middle of it all. "Neon really hit the U.S. in the late 1920s," Swormstedt says. "By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least ...
Neon is being stripped away from big showplaces as well. The New Amsterdam, Disney’s back-from-ruin Broadway house on 42nd Street, quietly replaced all the Streamline Modern neon on its marquee ...