Neon wall clocks are longtime favorites for commercial display. You probably remember seeing them in movie theaters, coffee shops, candy stores, supermarkets, bus stops, railroad depots, gas stations, and many other places.
These antique wall clocks came in several styles. Some neon clocks featured a bezel with neon lettering displaying an advertiser’s name, product, and telephone number; others featured a neon face with the bezel trimmed to one of the colors of an advertiser’s logo, with that logo printed in the middle of the face; still others featured neon hands and numbers surrounding a company or dealer’s logo.
Today, there are still small businesses that like to feature neon clocks, but there are homeowners or renters who like to display them featuring some of their favorite icons, whether antique automotive or soft drink logos or vintage entertainment figures and designs. Where they sold originally in the high hundreds to the low thousands, due to their special construction and mostly commercial usage, today they can be found in the lower hundreds even as made-to-order collectibles.
Curtis Clocks, for example, makes a series of neon clocks commemorating historical corporate images from consumer brands (Chevrolet, RCA, Philco, Harley-Davidson, Pontiac, Firestone) to the generic (movie theaters, watch repair, radio tubes, motels, bar signs) to history (the White Star Line—owners of the ill-fated Titanic). They sell many of their pieces on eBay.
WaynesNeonClocks.com makes to-order neon clocks, often featuring a half-bezel for a business name and a logo in the middle of the face. However, they also make historical clocks in neon, lighted face, and spinning-light bezels, featuring such popular items as classic soft drink logos (Pepsi-Cola, 7-Up, Orange Crush), automotive logos (Mobilgas, Texaco, Sinclair-HC, Quaker State oil, Studebaker, Indian motorcycles), and historical miscellany (Buster Brown shoes, Borden’s dairy, Westinghouse radio tubes, Dairy Queen).
And IloveNeon.com offers a large number of neon clocks, with or without logos, at prices ranging from $49.95-$269.95, with the more expensive models being 20 inches diameter compared to the less expensive beginning at 14 inches diameter.
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