Neon Dad Lights Up Denver

Jeff"JJ" Bebout, aka Neon Dad, is known for his coffee shops — he's the current owner of Glass Arrow and a former co-owner of Roostercat — but when he's not roasting beans, he's busy creating and restoring neon signs around town.

“Everything turned around when I quit real estate, which I hated,” Bebout recalls. “I was living in Cincinnati, making great money, flipping houses, running HOAs, doing my thing. I did all that in order to be financially stable enough to have a family. When I was 28, I went through a really bad breakup, and it occurred to me that I was running short on time. Even if I had a kid soon, I figured I’d die when they were probably in high school. That just seems mean.

He ended up working in service and repair for Denver’s longstanding Young Electric Sign Company . “Historic company,” notes Bebout. “They let me go in and play in the neon benders’ fires.” He says he got fired from the job because he wanted to get serious about learning to craft neon, and when YESCO caught wind that he was looking for other work, he was let go. But again, no one working in neon in Denver was hiring. “So I bought my own fires,” he says, “and I’ve been teaching myself ever since.

Coffee and neon go together pretty well, it turns out. Bebout did the neon signage at Mutiny Information Cafe, and has a piece up inside the store as well. Mutiny is one of the vendors that use Bebout’s “white label” service, so it can put its own brand on Bebout’s beans.Bebout has a wish list of local signs that he’d love to have a hand in saving. “I want to redo the,” Bebout says. “The Benjamin Moore sign I worked on with YESCO. Same with the Sapp Bros. sign. Those are in good shape.

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