Information about the Joker's Wild Casino sign that sits at 920 N Boulder Hwy. Site address: 920 N Boulder Hwy Sign owner: Boyd Gaming Sign details: Opened 1990 as Cattle Baron Casino, closed and reopened at Joker's Wild 1993. Sign condition: 5 - well maintained sign Sign form: Super Pylon, and on top of building. Sign-specific description: Neon Jester's hat on top of the Pylon sign, with a casino sign below and a reader board below that. Large neon Jester's hat on top of the Building. "Jokers Wild Casino" wrapping part of the building also in neon. Sign - type of display: Neon Sign - media: Steel Sign - non-neon treatments: Reader board and LED Sign animation: Chase with light bulbs around outside of the cabinet that houses the property name. Sign environment: On Boulder Highway in Henderson surrounded by empty lots and small residential areas. Sign - date of installation: c. 1993 Sign - thematic influences: The property uses the joker playing card theme. This time is used with several other casino properties throughout the Las Vegas Valley. Survey - research locations: Boyd Gaming website, assessor's website Surveyor: Wyatt Currie-Diamond Survey - date completed: 2017-08-20 Sign keywords: Pylon; Neon; Steel; Chasing; Reader board; Video screen; Porte-cochère
Information about the Lucky Cuss sign that sits at 3305 Fremont St. Site address: 3305 Fremont St Sign owner: D B N G LLC Sign details: This property was originally the Panorama Motel, which opened in the 1950's. However, the signage later changed to fit the Lucky Cuss Motel. It was removed from the property in 2008. In 2012, the old sign was restored by the Neon Museum and placed on Las Vegas Boulevard. The replacement sign is still at the property. Sign condition: 5 - appears to be well maintained Sign form: Roadside pole Sign-specific description: The sign at the property is a rectangular cabinet, with the edges at the top rounded off. The background of the cabinet is red, and the outline is blue. The words "Lucky Cuss" are white in a stylized front, and the word "Motel" in larger, block white lettering. On the side of the cabinet is the address 3305. Sign - type of display: Neon Sign - media: Steel Sign environment: Property is on Fremont St, near a car dealership and other motels Sign - date of installation: c. 2008 Sign - thematic influences: The sign does keep some of the original elements of the first sign, the 1950s era stylized font and simple outlines of neon. Sign - artistic significance: The sign, although new, does throwback to the original's 1950s creation date. Survey - research locations: Assessor's website, roadarch.com Surveyor: Lauren Vaccaro Survey - date completed: 2017-09-14 Sign keywords: Neon; Steel; Pole sign; Roadside
A flock of pelicans at Pyramid Lake, Nevada. Some birds are wading near a sand bar, while others are airborne. Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage (an endorheic lake). The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff. Pyramid Lake is the site of some of the Earth's most spectacular tufa deposits. Tufa is a rock composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that forms at the mouth of a spring, from lake water, or from a mixture of spring and lake water. The explorer John C. Fremont (1845) wrote about the tufas during his 1843-44 expedition and named the lake after the pyramidal-shaped island that lies along the east shore of the lake. The Paiute name for the island is Wono, meaning cone-shaped basket. The Paiute name for the lake is Cui-Ui Panunadu, meaning fish in standing water.
The pyramid-shaped island tufa that lies along the east shore of the lake and is the reason the lake was named Pyramid Lake. Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage (an endorheic lake). The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff. Pyramid Lake is the site of some of the Earth's most spectacular tufa deposits. Tufa is a rock composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that forms at the mouth of a spring, from lake water, or from a mixture of spring and lake water. The explorer John C. Fremont (1845) wrote about the tufas during his 1843-44 expedition and named the lake after the pyramidal-shaped island that lies along the east shore of the lake. The Paiute name for the island is Wono, meaning cone-shaped basket. The Paiute name for the lake is Cui-Ui Panunadu, meaning fish in standing water.
A picture of students posing outside of the Las Vegas School. Identified from left to right: 1. Iona Jurden 2. Ruth Boyd 3. Tusy Boyd of Highbie 4. Bess Dupuis 5. June Huff 6. Nona Harkins (Mrs.) 7. Lola Ball 8. Miss Britt 9. Ruth Norris 10. Glen Trout 11. Edward Hartsman 12. Prof. B. Street 13. Ray Cragin 14. Cecil Rowe 15. Herbert Burnside 16. Joe Jackson 17. Hon. R.R. Robertson, Jr. 18. Clarence Vandeventer 19. Sarah Peters 20. Verna Pollock 21. Verda Potter 22. Mildred Hinge 23. Zona Pollock 24. Ella Coughlin 25. Gladys Cyphus 26. Doris Cyphus 27. Fay Cyphus 28. Pauline Stephens 29. Eanis Liday 30. Rob Griffith 31. Hazel Potter 32. Alice Fell 33. Grace West (E.N.S.) 34. Helen Boyd 35. Barbara Bell 36. Daisy French 37. Alice Montgomery 38. Allison Moffet 39. Ida Brashaw 40. Miss Johnson 41. Miss Jackson 42. Irma Funk 43. Iona Summerville 44. Frank Coughlin 45. Thomas J. Loane, Jr. 46. Harold Clark 47. Gerald Nelson 48. Vernon Nutthall 49. Otto Westlake 50. Prof. J.F. Mojes 51. Beulah Booth 52. Margaret Wilson Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)