S & M Signs & Neon

Neon is something everyone sees everyday in just about every place but does not really notice, much less consider. The earliest neon i remember seeing was the Markle Steel Company sign in Houston Texas in the early 1960s. I was about six years old. It was two stories tall and showed a construction worker sitting on a steel beam giving a thumbs up to hoist. Multicolored, huge, and animated so that his thumbs-up arm moved up and down in a constant, progressive affirmative.