The Hotel Chelsea's neon sign was installed in 1949. Henry P. Gray / Wikimedia Commons via ... and each five-foot-tall-letter from the word “hotel” will be sold separately, as auctioneer ...

Once dubbed “the earth and eagle,” it was known more simply and affectionately as the P-I globe. Latecomers might find the hyphenated letters unfamiliar ... s first neon sign, also for ...