Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Displaying results 19211 - 19220 of 19602

Family Group Record-568, Syphus Family, printout

Date

1992-01-06

Archival Collection

Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains documents containing the Syphus Family Group Record.

Text

DeRionne P. Pollard (Nevada State University) oral history interview conducted by Magdalena Martinez and Taylor Cummings: transcript

Date

2022-10-13

Description

From the Lincy Institute "Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic" Oral History Project (MS-01178) -- Education sector interviews file.

Text

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter program committee minutes

Date

1998-01-27
1998-09-22
1998-12-05
1998-12-10

Description

From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.

Text

Michael Chin oral history interview: transcript

Date

2022-12-20
2023-01-12

Description

Oral history interviews with Michael Chin conducted by Jerwin Tiu, Cecilia Winchell, and Stefani Evans on December 20, 2022 and January 12, 2023 for Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Chin describes growing up in a largely Americanized household. His paternal grandparents immigrated from China and owned a laundry shop that his father worked in as well. Chin discusses his education and his interest in creative writing, including editing the school newspaper and writing an a cappella blog with his friend while in college. After graduating, he worked at the John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth as a resident assistant before getting into a graduate program and obtaining his MFA.

Text

Photographs of Slots a Fun signs, Las Vegas (Nev.), 2002

Date

2002
2017-09-01

Description

Photos show Slots a Fun signs at night and during the day. Two surveys were conducted to gather information about this sign. One was conducted in 2002 and one was conducted in 2017. PDFs are available for both surveys. See the 2017 survey PDF for additional information that is not included in the object description.
Site address: 2880 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign owner: Mandalay Resort Group
Sign details: Slots a' Fun is located on the south side of the Circus Circus parking lot, but it is on residence now. The small building stretches west with the mouth of the building being an open mouth facing the east. The external signage is located on the elongated north face of the building, and the gaping east entrance. The north side is comprised of gold painted, crafted raceways with various text signage. The entrance is adorned with various internally lit cabinets as well as a marquee adorned pediment, located within the front face of the entrances overhang. The entrance is considerably small, sandwiched between flamboyant properties such as the Westward Ho and the Circus Circus.
Sign condition: Structure 4 Surface 4 Lighting 4 The structural integrity is good as well the lighting. The surface is starting to show some signs of wear, but not very much at all.
Sign form: Fascia
Sign-specific description: The main entrance faces east and contains an interesting array of signage. The front is highlighted by two giant pillars. The are uniquely designed as inverted, tapered cones supporting the barrel vaulted cantilevered overhang. Near the top portion of the column a backlit message box cuts through the pole dividing it into two apparent sections. Bordered on all edges with gold polished raceways with incandescent bulbs, the box is animated in a chasing pattern. A top the poles on the north and south sides a polished aluminum, circular cabinet, has red, backlit plastic containing the words "Slots A' Fun" in white text. These cabinets are outlined in red neon. The edges of the apparent recess are lined with incandescent bulbs Each vault contains a long bank of large incandescent sphere's, arranged in single file. Along the front of the cantilevered overhang we have an entablature running the length of building. Gold raceways run horizontally along the top and the bottom with rows of triple incandescent bulbs. In the center of the pediment, white channel letters painted red on the inside, with incandescent bulbs filling the interior space of all of the characters. Each letter is also outlined in neon. The rest of the interior space of the facade is sculpted raised circular pattern with incandescent bulbs placed in the centers where the repeated panels connect. Under that, a polished gold aluminum banner with various assorted neon letters and advertisements is displayed. Since the "Slots A' Fun" used to be part of the Circus Circus it is closely integrated into the environment and even with the signage. Upon the northeast corner of the building a sign for the Circus Circus is perched on the top of the roofline facing north/south. Facade is sculpted raised circular pattern with incandescent bulbs placed in the centers where the repeated panels connect. Moving around to the north face of the building, an array of signage is present headed west along the wall. Along the stucco facade we have overhangs of different dimensions. On these three overhangs we have gold channels in the shape of a continuous curly cue or rope shape. These raceway channels are lined on the inside with incandescent bulbs. The first one, furthest east, is a good length, and smaller in height than the others. The pattern loops eight times along the front. One single loop of the rope shape is located on the return width of the overhang as well. No text is incorporated with this overhang. The second curling raceway is over a wider, shallower depth. The overhang, is much larger in size and supports cursive pan channel letters painted red and outlined with red neon. The letters spell "Casino" in a continuous script text. The third overhang is the largest of the trio, and serves as the main entrance for this face of the building. It is in direct proximity to the actual Circus Circus building and the blazing signage, and porte cochere. This overhang is lower to the ground than the other two but projects further out. Channel letters spell "Slots A' Fun" in the front face of the overhang located in the center. The channel letters are painted red and lined on the interiors with red neon as well. This text is block instead of script. Flanking either side of the text there is the curling channels. The face of the building rises upward from the ground and meets the bottom edge of the overhang, with a continuous radius vault. The surface of the wall is surfaced with a gold reflective material. Just below the text of the overhang is a red steel cabinet, that is internally lit. The red painted steel box has a red plastic with a red plastic face with white lettering. The block text reads "Entrance." The sides are sculpted with a radius space reduced out of the sides of the cabinet. The edges of the face are lined with incandescent bulbs. Below the cabinet a red, vinyl, awning extends out over the doors, and a pedestrian path. A small portion of the main structure still extends west with one more loop on the face of the building.
Sign - type of display: Neon; Incandescent; Backlit
Sign - media: Steel; Masonry
Sign - non-neon treatments: Graphics; Paint
Sign animation: Chasing, oscillating
Notes: All of the raceways chase each other. This includes all of the different aspects which are lined with incandescent bulbs.
Sign environment: The Slots A Fun has the unique position of being in between the Westward Ho and the Circus Circus. It was at one time part of the Circus Circus, so it essentially blends in with its environment. The south side of the building literally resides touching the Westward Ho.
Sign manufacturer: YESCO
Sign - thematic influences: The theme of Slots a Fun can be regarded as the heavy influence from its initial design based on the Circus Circus. In that respect it would be linked to a circus theme. The almost surrealistic swelling of the tile laden columns on the east face of the building as well as the curly cue raceways suggest a busy excitement usually associated with the extravaganza of the circus. To that end, the interaction with the Las Vegas environment would suggest the theme of a party. Such influence of the same element of theming can be seen in the umbrella shapes and chasing action of the neighboring Westward Ho. Several elements of the facade suggest different trends as well. The eastern overhang's vaulted dome is surfaced with the highly reflective polished gold aluminum. The entrance on the northern face incorporated with the surfacing with a golden reflective surface. The trend of using the reflective surface to further perpetuate the luminescence is used highly in the flanking properties. The use of the raceways is a unique function, not repeated on any other property.
Sign - artistic significance: Some unusual elements that have not been repeated can be found in this lesser-known example of sign art.
Surveyor: Joshua Cannaday
Survey - date completed: 2002
Sign keywords: Chasing; Oscillating; Fascia; Neon; Incandescent; Backlit; Steel; Masonry; Graphics; Paint

Mixed Content

Photographs of Rummel Motel sign, Las Vegas (Nev.), February 23, 2017

Date

2017-02-23
2017-09-18

Description

The Rummel Motel sits north of The Strip at 1809 Las Vegas Boulevard South. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survey Data Sheet.
Site address: 1809 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign owner: Yeh Chia-Hong
Sign details: The motel was founded by Marvin Rummel in 1945 (VintageLasVegas, n.d.), although the Clark County Assessor lists the original construction year as 1951 (Assessor, n.d.). Undated vintage postcards, one describing the motel as "new" (Rummel Motel, 1809 So. 5th St. U.S. 91 - L.A. Highway Las Vegas, Nevada original vintage postcard, n.d.) show that a two-story building was later added to the back of the motor court (VintageLasVegas). The addition may explain the discrepancy in construction dates. The Roles family purchased the property in 1958 (VintageLasVegas; Noted bowler, hotel owner dies, 2002). Ralph Roles also operated the Del Mar Motel (the Del Mar's sign, designed by Betty Willis, is now at the Neon Museum). A vintage postcard from 1958 shows that motel was endorsed by the Automobile Association of America and another automobile club (Garofalo, 2011). The motel was severely damaged by fire on April 30 2017 (VintageLasVegas; Hershkovitz, 2017) and is currently closed.
Sign condition: The condition is 2, fair. The lower portion of the cabinet is dented and access panels are damaged or missing. The upper portions of the cabinet display numerous metal patches. The plastic on the reader board has holes. The remaining neon tubing appears to be intact. All incandescent light bulbs are missing.
Sign form: Pylon sign
Sign-specific description: The sign is supported by a rectangular blue metal pylon. A blue metal-framed reader board and orange metal upper cabinet are cantilevered out from the pylon toward the street. In the center of the upper cabinet is an amoeba-shaped area which is painted black and outlined by white skeleton neon. Inside the black amoeba are individual cursive letters which spell out "Rummel Motel" in white paint traced by white skeleton neon. Atop the upper cabinet is a smaller orange metal cabinet which is wing-shaped. Above the wing is a blue metal circle. Inside the channel of the circle are six concentric circles of empty light sockets. On the outside of the circle is a semi-circular metal frame which holds five white skeleton neon five-pointed stars.
Sign - type of display: Neon, incandescent and reader board
Sign - media: Steel and plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: Incandescent light bulbs and a reader board
Sign environment: This is located on Las Vegas Boulevard South just north of the Las Vegas Strip
Sign - date of installation: The current sign dates back to at least 1958, but probably is not the original motel sign. A vintage postcard shows that before the two-story addition, the motel had a simple double pole sign with the name "Rummel Motel" enclosed by an open oval (Rummel Motel, 1809 So. 5th St. U.S. 91 - L.A. Highway Las Vegas, Nevada original vintage postcard, n.d.). The colors, lettering style and oval shape of the former sign appear to have inspired the design of the sign seen in a postcard from 1958 (Garofalo, 2011). The latter sign, with heavy modification, is the sign seen on the property today. The sign as currently configured is recognizable in a postcard from the late 1950's or early 1960's (Las Vegas motels then and now, n.d.).
Sign - date of redesign/move: The circa 1958 sign (Garofalo, 2011) was supported by double poles. The pole on the street side of the sign can still be seen on the upper cabinet, but it no longer reaches to the ground. The pole on the motel side of the sign ran from the ground toward the center of the sign, and then doglegged inward toward the motel to support the sign from the side. That pole appears to be the same one now enclosed by the pylon. The shadow of the pole can be seen inside the current reader board, which was a later addition attached below the circa 1958 sign. Automobile club shields at the bottom of the circa 1958 sign have been removed. A black metal directional arrow pointing toward the motel from the street side of the sign has also been removed. A circular white or light yellow metal cabinet with concentric rows of incandescent lightbulbs in the interior and a semi-circle of neon stars on the exterior has been moved from the top of the former directional arrow to the top of the wing-shaped cabinet. The circa 1958 wing-shaped cabinet was flush with the street side of the sign and contained skeleton neon which advertised, "HEATED POOL". The current wing-shaped cabinet contains no neon and has been pushed to the center of the sign. The lower cabinet of the circa 1958 sign was painted orange and black, which is now all orange. The amoeba shape was painted blue and is now black. Below the amoeba were skeleton neon letters which spelled out, "NO VACANCY" and "24 HOUR ROOM SERVICE". The neon is now gone. A small black metal cabinet attached at the bottom of the sign contained what appear to be either painted or skeleton neon letters which state, "COOLED BY REFRIGERATION". That portion of the sign is now gone.
Sign - thematic influences: This sign showcases 1950's and 1960's Googie trends. This also conveys earlier motor court designs in the building and the sign.
Survey - research locations: Clark County Assessor, Parcel No. 162-03-310-007, Retrieved from http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/assessor/Pages/PropertyRecords.aspx?H=redrock&P=assrrealprop/pcl.aspx Garofalo, M. (2011 November 2). Still standing-Rummel Motel. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/vintageroadtrip/6304823598/ Hershkovitz, R. (2017 April 30). Fire damages vacant downtown Las Vegas motel. Las Vegas Review Journal. Retrieved from https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/downtown/fire-damages-vacant-downtown-las-vegas-motel/ Las Vegas motels-Then and now. (n.d.). Rummel Motel. Retrieved from http://stefanidrivesvegas.com/8.html Noted bowler, motel owner Roles dies. (2002 July 30). Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved from https://lasvegassun.com/news/2002/jul/30/noted-bowler-motel-owner-roles-dies/ RoadsideArchitecture. (n.d.) The Rummel Motel. Retrieved from http://www.roadarch.com/signs/nvvegas3.html Rummel Motel, 1809 So. 5th St. U.S. 91 - L.A. Highway Las Vegas, Nevada original vintage postcard. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Rummel-Motel-1809-So-U-S/dp/B00P9LEQCS VintageLasVegas. (n.d.). Rummel Motel. Retrieved from http://vintagelasvegas.com/post/160953547509/rummel-motel-1809-s-las-vegas-blvd-built-by
Surveyor: Mitchell Cohen
Survey - date completed: 2017-09-18
Sign keywords: Pylon; Neon; Incandescent; Reader board; Plastic; Steel

Mixed Content

Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 23, 1994

Date

1994-05-23

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes student organization funding requests. CSUN Session 24 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

Text