Whether it’s the warm neon pink glow of the clock at the top of the DK Diner, or the neon Budweiser sign at the Square Bar, we are drawn by these signs to see what’s inside these buildings. From miles ...

THE DALLES, Oregon – David Benko is to neon signs what Jeff Bezos is to online shopping. Benko, 53, one of the preeminent American experts on the history and craftsmanship of neon advertising signs, ...

Analysis: brightly-lit signs festooned the capital's streets in the 1930s and were very much a part of everyday life in the city One of the photographs from Dublin's 1932 staging of the Eucharistic ...

In 1985, Jed Schleisner had a biology degree in his pocket and no job on the horizon. Combining boredom with science and a long-held love of art, he came up with an illuminating new career. Schleisner ...

In the summer of 1898, the Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay made a discovery that would eventually give the Moulin Rouge in Paris, the Las Vegas Strip, and New York’s Times Square their perpetual ...

THE DALLES, Ore. — Inside a huge and historic Elks Temple in The Dalles, Oregon, David Benko has established the National Neon Sign Museum, using his own collection of artifacts to tell the story.

The neon sign has lit up downtown areas from Las Vegas to London for more than 100 years. But is its cheerful glow in danger of being snuffed out? In recent months, New Yorkers have campaigned – ...

Kern Advertising Signs, which made and installed those first neon signs, is still shining brightly. The company, which got its start just a half dozen years after neon was introduced commercially in ...

The saying goes, “Bright Lights, Big City” — and classic neon signs are a shining beacon of that legacy. But due to rent increases that are shuttering old-school establishments and cheap LED ...