"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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

It seemed fitting that in the 1980s the world’s biggest neon sign, for Marlboro cigarettes, was in Hong Kong. Some of the neon was in English, some in Arabic, some in Japanese.

As Siegel describes it, each neon sign is an object that both “hides in the landscape but is also so visible.” And because of that, they become “important marker[s] for a lot of people's ...

Signs at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the Apollo Theater are among the latest to lose their vintage glow in favor of LED lighting. Neon lettering on the vertical sign and atop the marquee at the ...