This summer, the Voices will take a look at people with unusual jobs. If you have an idea for us, email [email protected]. In the 1930s and ’40s, neon lights screamed exciting night life, beckoning ...
When people see an advertising sign in which the letters or designs are formed by slender glowing glass tubes, they may know at once that it is a neon light sign. Although effective as displays, these ...
Spring and summer bloom with a vibrant array of indulgent color: a fanfare of fuchsia, sunshine-yellow, neon-orange and bright purple in wildflowers, lilies, agapanthus and more. But see all of those ...
We typically think of neon signs as big commercial advertisements, hanging inside windows and lofted on tall signposts outside highway-adjacent businesses. [James Akers] has gone the other route with ...
When Eric Elizondo repairs the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on the Strip, he doesn’t just keep the city’s most beloved icon standing. He’s putting his hands on family history. Elizondo is a ...
Four letters have spelled Philly since 1932: PSFS. High above 12th and Market streets, two 26-foot high PSFS signs have been illuminated by parallel tubes of red neon for 83 years. Now the landmark ...
If ever you've hopped on Instagram, spied some blissed-out blogger's technicolor smoothie bowl, and thought, "This is not a color that exists in nature," you're not alone. But that doesn't mean you're ...
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the ...
Jeff Friedman was expecting a delivery on a Monday morning in August when a man sauntered into his Tribeca showroom holding three delicate glass tubes bent in the shape of letters. Friedman asked for ...