Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A diner with red neon signs illuminated at night - Jon Bilous/Shutterstock With their mesmerizing glow, neon signs once dotted the ...
The paper plans tacked up on the gridded wire wall show the cheeky message a customer wants to immortalize on a neon sign: “Be a Badass with a Good Ass.” Tucked away inside a bright white, clean space ...
Enter the nondescript Neon Works warehouse in North Oakland, and you’ll find yourself suddenly immersed in rainbow light. It’s as if a time-warping tornado from the 1950s Bay Area wrapped all the neon ...
Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...
Paul Stoakes came from England to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s with $40 in his pocket. He bummed around and did odd jobs until finding his calling at a small company that makes signs — all kinds of ...
WILDWOOD — You’d have to look up pretty high to notice that the palm fronds of the Isle of Palms neon motel sign had been unlit. But inside Randy Hentges’ neon workshop on Park Boulevard, in the ...
“Rainbow Room” faces possible doom. Photo: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis/Getty Images “Rainbow Room” faces possible doom. Photo: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis/Getty Images Editor’s note: On December 17, after ...
The museum housing a personal collection of 160 neon signs will close in December, less than two years after it opened. Many of the items in the Neon Museum are restored signs from Philadelphia ...
A revival of fantastic, flickering signs is illuminating roadside America, from legendary Route 66 to the Vegas strip. Around 250 vintage signs fill the outdoor “boneyard” at the Neon Museum Las Vegas ...