I recently found such a mystery in the Electricity Collections. We have two small neon-type signs -- one reads "NBS" and the other, "Helium." Handwritten paper labels on each sign contained the ...

“These signs might have otherwise ended up in a scrap heap,” Chris Bovey said. He’s paid for most of them, typically between $600 and $1,500. “I thought they were cool, to have a piece of ...

Bill Marion, board chair of the Neon Museum (for which the park was built), says the gated park will open for programming ... Last year, its signs (some weighing as much as two tons) were ...

The sign itself isn’t functional, but the benefit of running one of the largest neon museums in California is access to craftspeople who are able to repair the historic piece. “So right now it ...