WILDWOOD, N.J. — You’d have to look up pretty high to notice that the palm fronds of the Isle of Palms neon motel sign have been unlit. But inside Randy Hentges’ neon workshop on Park Boulevard, in ...

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Learn to make light, but never LEDs. Have you ever stopped to look at a neon sign? I mean really look at one—long enough to notice that it is made of glass tubes intricately hand bent and folded, and ...

Sometimes, you see a project that isn’t a technical powerhouse but just looks so good you can’t help but think about duplicating it. That’s how we felt with the mini-neon signs made by [makerverse].

PROTECT A TREASURED EXAMPLE OF AMERICANA. THE GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, KNOWN AS THE CHAIR CITY. BUT NOW IT MIGHT JUST BE ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING THE NEON SIGN CITY. WELCOME TO A PLACE WHERE ...

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 the neon ...

One of local historian Katherine Rinehart’s great passions is helping her fellow Petalumans see neon signs in a new light. With a planned Sept. 14 release of her new book, “Petaluma Vintage Signs ...

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway — but they’re going down at Rockefeller Center. 30 Rock is ditching its iconic neon signs prominently plastered across Saturday Night Live’s opening ...