Neon signs from downtown Mesa's past are getting a new lease on life. Why it matters: Historic preservation advocates have ...

A new outdoor space in Mesa illuminates the city’s history with restored neon signs that once appeared in various places ...

Cheers rang out as five historic neon signs that once shone along Mesa’s Main Street were redisplayed at the city’s newest public space, called the Neon Garden. The area that was once the ...

A new museum coming to Kansas City hopes to bring the city’s glowing past back to life, one neon sign at a time.

“When you collect big things, people notice,” Vangie Osborn, creator of the upcoming Signs of Our Times gallery, said. In the very near future, one area of downtown Boise will start to look ...

The sign is a holdover from a time when neon signs lined Market Street. In the 1950s and early 1960s, businesses prized neon signs. But as Randall Homan, co-founder of San Francisco Neon ...

Neon lettering on the vertical sign and atop the marquee at the Apollo Theater, on West 125th Street in Harlem.Credit...Ashok Sinha for The New York Times Supported by By John Freeman Gill For ...

It’s thought the very first neon sign in America was erected in San Francisco in 1923 for a car dealership on Van Ness Avenue. Market Street in the 1950s was a blazing anaconda of neon ...

The versatility of neon signs allows them to blend seamlessly with different wedding themes, from classic elegance to boho ...

The Apollo, on 125th Street, did the same ... LED manufacture requires problematic ingredients, like arsenic. Neon signs are pretty straightforwardly repairable, in part because they’re old ...

Mesa restored the neon beacons — including iconic Diving Lady, Watson's Flowers and Dairy Queen signs — to light up the former post office building.