"If it didn't get restored, it would just fall apart." ...

Curious collectors wandered through an Ontario industrial space last weekend, gaping at one man’s neon-lighted cave of Americana. Glowing signs advertising Pep Boys, Union 76 and Felix Chevrolet were ...

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Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

Vintage neon signs have become a rare and treasured thing in the Valley. In fact, local preservationists estimate there are only around three dozen old-school illuminated displays still in operation ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As far as Todd Matuszewicz sees it, looking at the neon sign outside of the Riviera Motel on East Colfax Avenue is about as close to heaven as a person can ...