As neon signs disappeared around the country and some environmental groups opposed them, Las Vegas doubled down and built taller, more elaborate signs. “Neon stood out and stands out,” Green said.

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 ...

In the early 1970s, a sign ordinance in Denver banned “moving neon.” Companies, too, wanted something different. In 1982, the Holiday Inn chain switched out its neon “Great Sign” for a ...

Neon signs were introduced in the United States in the 1920s and peaked in the mid-1930s to 1950s before declining in popularity, according to the Neon Museum. Stern, ...

The National Neon Sign Museum in The Dalles, Oregon, is popular, too. Founder David Benko says, as interest in neon signs has gone up, so have prices and the number of pieces going to private ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Decades-old neon signs are powering on for viewers in Spokane to enjoy very soon. ... is moving his store into the Boulevard Building on the corner of Indiana and Monroe.

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 ...

A total of six neon signs will be lit up at the end of the month along Grove Street, from 15th Street to 16th Street. Long-time residents of Boise will be able to recall some of the past ...

The first neon sign was installed in New York’s Times Square om 1924 and in Las Vegas in 1928. Doby’s Hotel Court in Montgomery, Ala., in 1980. John Margolies ...

But it wasn’t always this way. For roughly the first 20 years of the city’s existence, there was no neon. Neon signs came to ...