and neon signs began to take on a seedy connotation. In the span of twenty years, they had gone from characterizing Berenice Abbott’s New York of sparkling skyscrapers to Weegee’s gritty New ...

DENVER — Truly saving the history of Denver means saving the seedy, along with the stately. That certainly applies to Colfax. Neighbors are rallying to save the 50-year-old neon sign that once ...

How many down-and-out characters have checked into a seedy hotel and found a malfunctioning sign buzzing like a bug-zapper outside their window? Image While neon was a fixture of cities nationwide ...

It seems like a bit of a miracle when a 1920s Art Deco neon sign survives intact.” But what once bespoke seedy strips now signals a wholesome throwback, and the glowing neon that attracted ...

with the neon sign flashing in his face,” says Homan. Not only was neon seen as the light source of seedy places, but it was also viewed as expensive and polluting. It was in 1898 when British ...

After "hating" the work, he travelled to London by horse and cart and his neon signs soon became a fixture of Soho's notoriously seedy nightlife. Now owned by his grandson, the company Richard ...