JANESVILLE
A landmark sign first installed in the neon 1950s will make a luminous return to the side of the YMCA building in downtown Janesville sometime this spring.
The YMCA of Northern Rock County is using private donations to rehab the 15-foot-tall, blade-style neon sign that has hung for 63 years on the northeast side of the Y on Dodge Street.
The sign has been dark for at least 15 years, either because of a wiring problem or neon leak.
Janesville sign fabricator JNB Signs is tackling the job of replacing all of the big metal signâs wiring, glass tubing and more to bring it back to its original, neon-glowing stateâor at least as close to original as possible.