You'll Never See Us
The Denver family business preserving neon
Episode 8 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
For more than 40 years, a little shop in Denver has worked to keep neon here “forever.”
At Morry's Neon, Glen Weseloh and his crew of neon tube benders continue to preserve the historical relevance and art of neon signage.
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You'll Never See Us is a local public television program presented by RMPBS
You'll Never See Us
The Denver family business preserving neon
Episode 8 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
At Morry's Neon, Glen Weseloh and his crew of neon tube benders continue to preserve the historical relevance and art of neon signage.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipA lot of the signs that are hanging from the ceiling, a customer has brought in and decided that it just wasn't warranting fixing.
So they left it here, and we patched them up and put them back together.
And the signs on the wall are signs that I have collected over the 40 years that I've been doing this.
There actually porcelain signs made back in the 50s and 60s.
Very valuable signs.
Unique signs.
Back in 1985, there were probably 10 to 12 neon shops in the Denver area.
And today there's three.
There's probably several hundred neon signs out there.
And I would say probably 100 of them are in the position that need to be restored, brought back to their original glory, giving birth to a sign, you know, you got your blood, sweat and tears into it and it's just becomes part of your life.
Just got into my blood.
I love the uniqueness, the longevity of it, the history of it.
Our gas that we use is a natural gas that comes from the city.
Then we have a, a blower that blows air into it, mixes into these chambers and gives us the heat that we need to bend the glass.
Neon used to be so much more prevalent with the Beautification Act that happened in the 70s.
A lot of the neon signs were taken down and put up just plastic signs that were backlit with L.E.D., and that just changed the whole appearance.
The whole outlook took away the nostalgic feeling.
LED is made out of a lot of hard metals, arsenic, a lot of components that are just not recyclable.
Neon has a 360 degree light where LEDs just one direction, LED goes out.
It's it's disposable.
You throw it away, cannot be repaired.
It cannot be fixed where neon can be Neon, It's just a better all around product.
Neon will be here forever.
You know it's not going to go away, so we definitely need that younger generation to step up and keep it going.
Take care of it and, keep it in our world today.
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