Reddy Kilowatt is drawn as a stick figure whose body and limbs are made of "lightning-bolt" symbols and whose bulbous head has a light bulb for a nose and wall outlets for ears. Reddy was created at ...

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

A Portland paint company plans to make a splash — and mark a milestone — with a souped-up neon sign: Miller Paint Co. is restored its beaming, iconic windmill along Southeast Grand Avenue to celebrate ...

Painting and weathering a large neon sign to give it a realistic aged look and bold style.

Distilled to their simplest use, signs speak to us. But historic signs — from a faded 1930s “ghost sign” painted on the side of a building to a 1950s neon ad — need others to speak for them. Des ...

Reporting from Havana — As the sun sinks over Old Havana, a row of ramshackle apartment buildings fades from sherbet bright to creamy hues of pale pink, yellow and green. Storm clouds hover above the ...

Historic Chinatown dive bar Li Po Cocktail Lounge plans to re-illuminate its partially working neon sign, a Chinese lantern that’s beckoned customers through its cavern door for more than 70 years.