SWARTSELL: Wartman is the director of Neonworks, a shop based in Cincinnati. He's been bending glass and doing just about everything else related to neon signs for decades. It runs in the family.

Bovey bought the shop. However, he did not know how to bend neon at all. It was then that he and Braun came together. "This guy walks up to me out of the dark and he says, 'Man that's a cool sign ...