But if you know where to look — in the niches of industry, preservation and high art — you’ll find the Bay Area’s neon culture bravely flickering on today.

I'm best known for my neon style that replicates the look of neon signs using spray paint. I started painting back in late '95 as a graffiti artist working mainly with lettering.

If you love L.A.’s vintage signs, ... The resulting prints — often of sun-bleached neon signs with shadows cast by the fading sun — are on display at the Pasadena Museum of California Art ...

Jeremy Meikle started True Love Neon five years ago and his pieces are rare and so is he. He is the only person to makes neon signs in Virginia Beach and one of only two in Hampton Roads.

The Museum of Neon Art will open its Pomona storage warehouse, housing 250 to 300 enormous pieces, to visitors on July 9. The collection is rarely open to the public.

Made in New England: The art of neon sign collecting and creating. Old Signs N Stuff in Gardner, Massachusetts, builds neon signs exclusively for private collections and museums.

Making neon signs is as much as art as it is a craft. Here, Ray Lynch, owner of Affordable Neon on the near East Side, works on bending glass into neon signs. Robin Jerstad / Robin Jerstad ...