The Fremont Hotel and Casino, operating since 1956, sits at 200 Fremont Street inside the Fremont Street Experience. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survey Sheet.
Site name: Fremont Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site address: 200 Fremont St
Sign owner: Boyd Gaming
Sign details: Opened 1956, the Fremont was a 15-story high rise, tallest building in Nevada at the time. Boyd Gaming purchased the property in 1983.
Sign condition: 5 - well maintained signage
Sign form: Bullnose Architectural sign
Sign-specific description: Decorated shed that wraps two sides of the property. The neon is primarily red with reader boards spaced throughout. The wrap also has columns of light bulbs. A cabinet with the words "Sam Boyd's" is at the very top of the bullnose at the corner, with the word Fremont directly underneath. A large T.V. screen is in-between "Fremont" and "Casino," which is housed at the bottom of the bullnose.
Sign - type of display: Neon, Incandescent
Sign - media: Steel, Plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: T.V. screens
Sign animation: Flickering lightbulbs
Sign environment: Property is on Fremont Street, near the Golden Nugget, 4 Queens, and Binion's.
Sign manufacturer: Possibly SSI
Sign - date of installation: c. 1983
Sign - thematic influences: Similar to that of other Fremont Street casino properties, the Fremont has a wrap of neon and incandescent bulbs going around the face of the building. The current signage went up in the 1980s, 20 years after the first of the wraps and bullnoses went up in that area.
Sign - artistic significance: When Sam Boyd purchases the property and changed the signage, it appears he wanted to stay consistent with the other larger casino properties in that area. A decorated shed was put on the building, with a large bullnose on the corner.
Survey - research locations: Vintage Vegas, The Magic Sign, Fremont Hotel Website, Boyd Gaming Website
Survey - research notes: There is a good chance that SSI designed the Sam Boyd signage. There is photo evidence in the Federal Heath photo collection at the Neon Museum showing a piece from the property in their shop back in the early 1980s.
Surveyor: Wyatt Currie-Diamond
Survey - date completed: 2017-09-09
Sign keywords: Architectural; Neon; Incandescent; Steel; Plastic; Bullnose; Video screen

Oral history interview with Helen Yu conducted by Andrew Yu on December 1, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Helen Yu discusses her upbringing in Seoul, South Korea, her grandfather's immigration to the United States in the late 1970s, and her family's decision to follow him to Portland, Oregon in 1984. She shares her family's history and their experiences during the Korean War, including what life was like both in North and South Korea at that time. Helen Yu discusses her undergraduate education at the University of Oregon studying graphic design and her graduate education at Ewha Womans University College of Art and Design in South Korea. She shares her thoughts having both a Korean American and Asian American identity, her marriage and two wedding ceremonies to her Korean husband, and her family's move to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001. Helen Yu concludes with a discussion of her event planning work which led to her current role as the Operations Manager at the Emerald at Queensridge in Las Vegas.

As he reveals in this oral history, Roger Thomas is, among many other things, a son, a father, a brother, a husband, a student, an artist, a visionary, and a philanthropist. As the second son of Peggy and E. Parry Thomas’s five children, Roger was raised a Mormon child of privilege and civic responsibility. The banking family summered in Newport Beach, wintered in Sun Valley, and taught their children by words and deeds that it is not up for debate if you will be involved in your community; the only question is how you will apply your talents and resources to benefit your community. Roger absorbed the lessons well. As a child who struggled in school but excelled in art, he attended his last two years of high school at Interlochen Arts Academy, graduating in 1969, finally finding himself “in an environment where what I did had currency.” From there he earned his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Studio Degree from Tufts University before returning to Las Vegas and eventually joining Steve Wynn’s team in 1981. As Executive Vice President of Design for Wynn Design & Development, he is the man in whom Steve Wynn places his trust to make real at each Wynn property the Wynn design philosophy: aim for a constituency of highly sophisticated, well-traveled, very educated people and give them a reality, a now, that is so fetching, so alluring they wish to be no place else. As he was mentored by his father and Steve Wynn, he too is mentoring those who will follow him. At Wynn, the next generation will carry forward the Wynn idea of evoca-texture, of creating “moments of experiential emotion that result in a memory so captivating and so unique that if you want to repeat that you have to come back.” At home, he collaborates with his daughter on a children’s book that has the potential to become a series; she is the illustrator, while he provides the words. Roger Thomas sat for this interview five days after his father, E. Parry Thomas, passed away in Idaho. Instead of postponing the interview to a more convenient time, Roger kept the appointment and explained, “This is for UNLV. If I’d cancelled my father would have killed me.”