"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 ...

Radio. 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 ...

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.

The Stardust neon sign was once called the “Queen of the Strip,” according to Johann Rucker, the research and content delivery manager for the Neon Museum, since its massive 188 feet tall and ...

The bar’s 1946 sign now sits inside, stripped of neon tubing. The owner, Eytan Sugarman, said that the sign was falling apart and had become a hazard. Ashok Sinha for The New York Times ...

Nearly seven months later, the neon sign that hung outside the store at 3309 N. Third St., opened in 1956 by an accordion player named Angelo “Ziggie” Zardus, has come down.

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 ...

Arik Knowles, vice president of hotel operations at Tropicana, speaks before a sign from the now-shuttered hotel-casino is lit at the Neon Museum on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in Las Vegas.

Madame ZuZu’s will host a lighting ceremony to unveil the restoration of the iconic Orange Garden neon chop suey sign at its new home Dec. 17. Billy Corgan originally opened Madame ZuZu&#8217… ...

A nearly 80-year-old neon sign outside the Aurora Fox Arts Center has been restored to its former glory, thanks to $140,000 in public and private funds. (Photo by Rachel D Graham, provided by City ...

Rocket Neon is the only independent neon sign shop left in the state of Idaho. Once a common practice, the now rare art form has shifted since the invention of LEDs. "They replace a lot of what we ...