The book looks at a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day. (Image Courtesy of MIT Press) For most of us, the word ...

IN THE 1950s Havana glowed with colour. Its hotels and bars, casinos and cabarets—many of them owned by American mobsters—catered to the world’s rich and famous. More than 140 cinemas bore ...

BEHIND A PLYWOOD PARTITION in Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon light has flickered unseen since the Great Depression. Purchased by Clifford Clinton in 1935, the cafeteria is ...

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 ...

The iconic neon sign that once hung over the entrance to The Century Bar in downtown Dayton was purchased by the owner of a local construction company who intends to keep the sign local and re-auction ...

GLENDALE, Calif. — The warm, electric glow and mid-century charm of neon signs are enduring features of Los Angeles’s historical buildings, but some of the city’s most beloved examples have not been ...

They were just a bunch of old business records belonging to New Mexico’s oldest and largest sign-making shop, the last of the manufacturers from neon’s mid-century heyday You can save this article by ...