Without neon lights, our cities would have looked like ghost cities for most of the 20th century. Now, these signs are in the process of becoming ghosts themselves. Since the 1920s, the cities of the ...

The neon art-deco sign that greets visitors to Richmond’s Carytown, which has recently read “RYTOWN” due to yet another ...

There was a time when making a high voltage project like a Jacob’s ladder took time to build or scrounge some kind of high voltage circuit. The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage ...

This time of year, when darkness descends in late afternoon and rain clouds often super-size the gloomy hours that precede sunset, you can't be blamed for looking just about anywhere for something to ...

St. Charles businessman David Hutson is turned on by neon. He owns Neon Times where he creates and restores neon signs. “People have a great affinity and affection for neon,” said Hutson. “It is a ...