Hamling has turned Anything Neon into a tourist attraction, with fun antiques and artifacts that include candy machines, vintage signs and an assortment of gas pumps. Of course, you have to have a diner on the inside to go with it. The front of the building Hamling expanded into a year and a half ago bears a Union 76 sign, a Coca-Cola cooler and an assortment of ancient bicycles. Inside the store, customers can sit at a counter with restored diner stools. A vintage meat scale holds a box of neon color samples.
Candy machines line the walls.
Hamling has restored most of them to dispense Kit-Kats and Junior Mints for a nickel apiece. Put a penny in one machine, press a brass button into a setting so deep it swallows your finger, and you'll be rewarded with an Andes mint. On a high shelf sit Hamling's most precious artifacts, old pieces of neon. People used the glowing tubes for a variety of purposes before the neon sign came into vogue. Glowing orange tubes from the 1950s make ozone.