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The Slow Death of Neon
Elsewhere in the city, a few surviving neon signs give way every year to cut-vinyl awnings, backlit fluorescent plexi, and ...
Neon signs used to be everywhere - but they were especially prevalent as bright beacons calling hungry travelers to American diners. So, where did they all go?
Pocatello is holding their first ever Neon Fest. Pocatello is holding their first ever Neon Fest. That will be this weekend ...
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 ...
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 ...
In films such as “Blade Runner", neon signs helped construct the imagined aesthetic of future cities. Some scholars have even interpreted the neon-lit streets of Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo as ...
The Slow Death of Neon Rockefeller Center is proposing to rip out its glowing glass signage in favor of LEDs. It joins a heap of others.
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 ...
Neon light debuted in Paris in 1910, and the first neon sign was installed in Paris in 1912, she said. Neon signs came to the United States in early 1920s, she said, and the first one was in San ...
Fading lights Neon signs were first introduced in Hong Kong in the 1920s.As the city’s economy flourished from the 1950s to the 1980s, neon did also, according to Brian Kwok, an associate ...
The Neon Garden will showcase six signs outside The Post, each a glowing piece of Main Street history. There’s the towering, bloom-covered display from Watson’s Flowers, which came down in 2014.