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Siegel said neon signs were even banned in some American cities, including Glendale, which in the 1970s passed an ordinance to make certain types of displays illegal.

The Hotel Chelsea's neon sign was installed in 1949. Henry P. Gray / Wikimedia Commons via CC BY-SA 3.0. The three-story-tall sign of Manhattan’s hallowed Hotel Chelsea—the infamous gathering ...

"Neon really hit the U.S. in the late 1920s," Swormstedt says. "By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least one neon sign." Keeping the trade alive. By the late 1960s, the introduction of ...