For a new vintage-trailer motel, I created a neon sign designed after the classic, scaffold-style signs once prominent on ...

But then came interstates and airplanes, and the neon signs became as obsolete as the independent roadside motels they advertised. Not many craftspeople still alive even know how to blow neon ...

Debbie Reynolds, a trailblazing entertainer and businesswoman, often said her off-Strip hotel-casino that operated in the 1990s was “her little place” — and she had the massive neon signs to ...