“Do we need a neon sign? Absolutely not, but it’ll look great, enhance the building and ties into the cool things happening in downtown Mesa,” Tretheway said. “Will it bring in more busines ...

Alabama cities may not have the glitz and glare of Times Square or Las Vegas but that doesn’t mean we can’t rock a cool neon sign when one is called for. Some in Alabama are easily ...

In an effort to connect the present business landscape of downtown Mesa with the past, business owners are being encouraged to put up neon signs – and the city is giving out money to make it happen.

The Dairy Queen he went to as a kid with his family in his native Cleveland had a vintage neon sign. BING REISING: And it was just, like, really cool. I loved looking at it. I remember being a kid ...

But neon began falling out of fashion by the early 1960s. "[A]fter World War II, as neon signs were replaced increasingly by fluorescent-lighted plastic, the art of bending colored tubes into ...