PROTECT A TREASURED EXAMPLE OF AMERICANA. THE GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, KNOWN AS THE CHAIR CITY. BUT NOW IT MIGHT JUST BE ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING THE NEON SIGN CITY. WELCOME TO A PLACE WHERE ...

The first neon sign was displayed in Paris in 1910 and since then, it has become part of the urban landscape. Although plastic signs with florescent lighting became popular in the 1950s and 1960s, ...

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Paul Barber reaches into a bucket, retrieving the feathery remnants of a dead bird and a chunk of a wasp's nest. "The things you'll find in an old sign," the veteran sign-maker of over 50 years says ...

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When Melissa Uroff got in trouble during high school, she would have to go to work with her father Steve Uroff. For nearly four decades, Steve Uroff, who is 70 and lives in Carmichael, has had one of ...