Over the past three years, the city of Mesa has given out $215,000 to a total of 32 businesses to help them install neon or neon-like signs. City officials spoke to the Business Journal to explain ...

Vintage beer signs continue to be as cool as the brew you love to drink. And, ... Neon beer signs were produced in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, but only in small numbers.

Neon signs for two long-time North Center neighborhood eateries. The signs, for the now-closed Chicago Joe’s and the possibly soon to be shuttered Orange Garden, sold in the five figures each ...

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 ...

Neon signs are cool, but they can be fragile and expensive if you need a custom design. If you’d rather make your own on the cheap, you can use EL wire , some simple plastic tubing, and a heat gun.

Neon is having a moment. From the album art on Arcade Fire's Everything Now to the poster design for Ingrid Goes West, from the luminescent purple of the Glow title card to the tubes of red and ...

Some other cool signs placed at a lower altitude were: 1. The neon leaping frogs sign of the Ellis Restaurant 2. Kay’s Kastles’ giant ice cream cone 3. The Town and Country Restaurant 4. Roy ...

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 ...

In an effort to connect the present business landscape of downtown Mesa with the past, business owners are being encouraged to put up neon signs – and the city is giving out money to make it happen.