When the U.S. 60 went down Main Street in Mesa decades ago, the road was lined with neon signs, many of them for motels looking to attract travelers. When the 60 was moved and Main Street was no ...

Vangie Osborn is preserving Boise's history by restoring neon signs, the last remnants of businesses long gone. "All those ...

Boise has its first outdoor, historic neon sign gallery, the Neon Grove. Six restored signs that once marked thriving Boise ...

“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 ...

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 ...

During the '50s and '60s, Mesa’s Main Street was home to some of the Valley’s most iconic neon signs, including those at well-known landmarks like the Buckhorn Baths Motel. Some signs were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...