To Wartman's right, large windows separate the shop from a cavernous room full of giant neon signs. That's the Sign Museum, which saw about 60,000 visitors last year.

"Neon really hit the U.S. in the late 1920s," Swormstedt says. "By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least one neon sign." Keeping the trade alive. By the late 1960s, the introduction of ...

A new museum coming to Kansas City hopes to bring the city’s glowing past back to life—one neon sign at a time.Local photographer Nick Vedros is leading an effort to preserve, restore and ...

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 ...

The historic El Portal neon sign is shown outside the former El Portal Theater at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025.