Monthly Archives - June 2022

Art of Travel: The Neon Lights of Las Vegas

How neon signs became Las Vegas’s defining art form and calling card is a transporting tale of transatlantic time travel.

Neon’s journey to the Mojave Desert originated in a London laboratory in 1898, when chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers drew six mysterious gases from thin air. The “noble” sextet, so termed...

The CW Las Vegas Chloe Koast learns to bend neon

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Chloe Koast was up to the challenge to learn from the sign-making experts at YESCO! The company is responsible for building and maintaining some of Las Vegas's best and brightest signs. Chloe learned the ins-and-outs of neon bending and took a road trip to one famous landmark: the "Welcome to...