{"id":12017,"date":"2025-04-16T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty-testing\/did-you-know-neon-signs-once-stopped-traffic\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:51:34","slug":"did-you-know-neon-signs-once-stopped-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/did-you-know-neon-signs-once-stopped-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know neon signs once stopped traffic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pictured here is Georges Claude, the \u201cFather of Neon.\u201d in the early 1900s with one of his neon experiments\u2014technology that would light up cities worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first neon sign in the U.S. was installed in 1923 for a Packard car dealership in LA, and people literally stopped traffic just to stare at it. That glowing red &#8220;Packard&#8221; started a revolution in visual marketing \u2014 and YESCO was right there in the thick of it, pioneering neon craftsmanship that would define the American West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At YESCO, we\u2019ve been part of the sign industry\u2019s legacy for decades, keeping the craft alive and evolving with every generation of signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to see how our expertise can elevate your business? Reach out to our team at YESCO today to learn more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"404\" data-id=\"12019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Georges_Claude_1926-neon-sign-making.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12019\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"522\" data-id=\"12018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/packards-first-neon-sign.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12018\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured here is Georges Claude, the \u201cFather of Neon.\u201d in the early 1900s with one of his neon experiments\u2014technology that would light up cities worldwide. The first neon sign in the U.S. was installed in 1923 for a Packard car dealership in LA, and people literally stopped traffic just to stare at it. That glowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":12019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/files\/images\/Georges_Claude_1926-neon-sign-making.jpg",550,404,false],"list":["https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/files\/images\/Georges_Claude_1926-neon-sign-making.jpg",550,404,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/files\/images\/Georges_Claude_1926-neon-sign-making.jpg",550,404,false],"full":["https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/files\/images\/Georges_Claude_1926-neon-sign-making.jpg",550,404,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12020,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017\/revisions\/12020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesco.com\/utahcounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}