Neon signs used to be everywhere - but they were especially prevalent as bright beacons calling hungry travelers to American ...

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 ...

"Neon really hit the U.S. in the late 1920s," Swormstedt says. "By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least one neon sign." Keeping the trade alive. By the late 1960s, the introduction of ...

But it wasn’t always this way. For roughly the first 20 years of the city’s existence, there was no neon. Neon signs came to ...

According to neon historian Thomas Rinaldi, only about 130 of the 75,000 outdoor electric signs from 1923–1956 still exist. Proponents of the shift to LEDs highlight their lower energy ...

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 ...

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 ...

As neon signs disappeared around the country and some environmental groups opposed them, Las Vegas doubled down and built taller, more elaborate signs. “Neon stood out and stands out,” Green said.