Nearly seven months later, the neon sign that hung outside the store ... whose significance is based in part on the fact that it's an animated sign that Linoff says was the last of its kind.

But Siegel remembered Stokes and his team digging through archival photos to get the design just right — down to how the original neon sign was animated to the type of paint the building used ...

Arguably as iconic as the delicious hot dogs and straight-backed wooden booths of George’s Coney Island are, is the marvelously tacky 40-foot-high neon sign featuring a gigantic hand holding a ...