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There is something about its violent comforting glow that draws you in, makes you pull over.

"Chinese nourishment" and "Delicious Pizza" and "Free Alterations" and "Motel" and "Joe's Bar." All of those neon signs and others -- big and slight, stark and splendid -- have burned silently and magnificently, and almost eternally, in the devoted American night.

Many might regard neon as a thing of the past, fated to obsolescence in an age of computer graphics and cheaper, easier-to-maintain LED displays.

But any blunder along the American roadside, down roads such as Routes 1 and 22 and 17, shows you neon is packed and well, even if the craft is being practiced by a slowly dwindling group of sign-makers.

"30 by 11; that's the indicator size?" Roger Borg asks a caller to the cluttered workshop of his Perth Amboy neon against, 419neon. "Okay. Color on the borders, color on the notice? Yep, yep. Both the lit frame and the letters are yellow? I'll work up the price. Do you need a power up or will you work that yourself?

Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

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