This post is dedicated to all who have suffered and sacrificed for freedom of expression and democracy in Syria.   (Regular New York Neon ...

A none-too-optimistic update on  the ancient sign at Lascoff's Drugs : the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati offered to make arrangeme...

I have scrapped my planned blog post this week to run yet another obituary piece, this time for J. Leon Lascoff & Son, "Apothecari...

One of the more nagging frustrations of researching the neon book was how little information I managed to find on Da-Nite  (pronounced ...

July 4th: a good day for bar-b-cues, parades, not going to work, and - that's right - American flags rendered in neon. I spotted ...

But for a decision of New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Tudor City sign would be just a memory today, leaving 42nd Stre...

I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon.  I never felt sadder in my life.                                     ...