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Photographs of Las Vegas Club signs, Las Vegas (Nev.), June 24, 2016
Date
2016-06-24 to 2017-09-02
Archival Collection
Description
The permanently closed Las Vegas Club Casino sits at 18 Fremont Street at the Fremont Street Experience. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survery Data Sheet.
Site name: Las Vegas Club (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site address: 18 Fremont St
Sign owner: Las Vegas Club
Sign details: The Las Vegas Club originally opened on the opposite side of Fremont than it is today in the 1930's. It held one of the first few Neon signs on Fremont which was installed around ca.1930. In 1949 the Las Vegas Club reopened in its new location on Main and Fremont Street, and once held a large Baseball Hall of Fame. It has closed down in 2015 and demolition of the building began in 2017.
Sign condition: 4- Signage was working well and still had bright paint before the building had undergone demolition
Sign form: Pylon and architectural
Sign-specific description: They convey sports themes throughout their signs. There was a bronze-type sculptural baseball player. Large Neon and incandescent sign that wrapped around the whole building. Though above each entrance there is a plain graphic lettering with neon surrounding the letters.
Sign - type of display: Neon and Incandescent
Sign - media: Steel and bronze-type material (baseball player)
Sign - non-neon treatments: Sculptural element and incandescent
Sign animation: Flasher for incandescent
Sign environment: This location is on the north corner of Main and Fremont St. It is just north of the Golden Gate and across the street from the Plaza. It also had the Golden Goose, Glitter Gulch and Mermaids to the East of it.
Sign manufacturer: YESCO
Sign designer: Brian "Buzz" Lemming
Sign - date of installation: Circa 1960's
Sign - thematic influences: They convey sports/baseball themes within their signage which showcases the theme of their Baseball Hall of Fame.
Survey - research locations: Neon Museum Tour Hand book, Vintage Vegas http://vintagelasvegas.com/search/Las+Vegas+Club Images, Charles Barnard The Magic Sign.
Survey - research notes: The original Las Vegas Club in the 1930's had the tallest tallest sign in downtown Las Vegas until it was superseded by the Lucky Casino sign about a decade later.
Surveyor: Wyatt Currie-Diamond
Survey - date completed: 2017-09-02
Sign keywords: Architectural; Steel; Sculptural; Incandescent; Flashing; Neon; Bullnose
Site name: Las Vegas Club (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site address: 18 Fremont St
Sign owner: Las Vegas Club
Sign details: The Las Vegas Club originally opened on the opposite side of Fremont than it is today in the 1930's. It held one of the first few Neon signs on Fremont which was installed around ca.1930. In 1949 the Las Vegas Club reopened in its new location on Main and Fremont Street, and once held a large Baseball Hall of Fame. It has closed down in 2015 and demolition of the building began in 2017.
Sign condition: 4- Signage was working well and still had bright paint before the building had undergone demolition
Sign form: Pylon and architectural
Sign-specific description: They convey sports themes throughout their signs. There was a bronze-type sculptural baseball player. Large Neon and incandescent sign that wrapped around the whole building. Though above each entrance there is a plain graphic lettering with neon surrounding the letters.
Sign - type of display: Neon and Incandescent
Sign - media: Steel and bronze-type material (baseball player)
Sign - non-neon treatments: Sculptural element and incandescent
Sign animation: Flasher for incandescent
Sign environment: This location is on the north corner of Main and Fremont St. It is just north of the Golden Gate and across the street from the Plaza. It also had the Golden Goose, Glitter Gulch and Mermaids to the East of it.
Sign manufacturer: YESCO
Sign designer: Brian "Buzz" Lemming
Sign - date of installation: Circa 1960's
Sign - thematic influences: They convey sports/baseball themes within their signage which showcases the theme of their Baseball Hall of Fame.
Survey - research locations: Neon Museum Tour Hand book, Vintage Vegas http://vintagelasvegas.com/search/Las+Vegas+Club Images, Charles Barnard The Magic Sign.
Survey - research notes: The original Las Vegas Club in the 1930's had the tallest tallest sign in downtown Las Vegas until it was superseded by the Lucky Casino sign about a decade later.
Surveyor: Wyatt Currie-Diamond
Survey - date completed: 2017-09-02
Sign keywords: Architectural; Steel; Sculptural; Incandescent; Flashing; Neon; Bullnose
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Photograph of Las Vegas station, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1910-1920
Date
1910 to 1920
Archival Collection
Description
View of Las Vegas train station. Construction of shops has begun.
Image
Photograph of the students and faculty at Las Vegas School, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1917
Date
1917
Archival Collection
Description
Students and teachers at Las Vegas school. People identified in the photo include: Bay Syphus, Barbara Bell, Frank Caughlin, Tommy Loan, Han Clark, Mr. Mays (teacher), Mr. Street (teacher), Ray Cragin, Butch Nelson, Otto "Kelly" Westlake, Bob Robbins, Zona Pollock, Iona Jurben, Ruth Boyd, Bessie DuPew, Lola Ball, Glenn Trout, Miss Winters (teacher).
Image
Postcard of Las Vegas Public School, Las Vegas, 1924
Date
1924
Archival Collection
Description
Handwritten note on back of post card: "1924 This building housed grades 2-8. The kindergarten and first grades were in a smaller building beside this building." Note on front of card: "Public School Las Vegas, Nev."
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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, August 20, 1970
Date
1970-08-20
Archival Collection
Description
Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club
Text
Photograph of Las Vegas School students, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1910
Date
1910
Archival Collection
Description
A class portrait at the Las Vegas School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The teacher is Mrs. Boohauer. Harold Stocker is the 3rd from the left in the back row. The last girl on the right is Quay Hughes Powers.
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Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Blueprints
Identifier
MS-00921
Abstract
The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Blueprints consists of twenty-four of the original thirty blueprints as part of the Interstate Commerce Commission (I.C.C.) Valuation Index Section I. They are labeled "Right-of-Way & Track Map, Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad" and dated June 30, 1915. The blueprints contain four miles of railroad lines per sheet with a scale of 6 3/4 inches per mile. The collection also includes one sheet from the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad company, which used the track, yard, and facilities of the Las Vegas and Tonopah and Railroad company between Beatty and Goldfield, Nevada.
Archival Collection
The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, January 6, 1955
Date
1955-01-06
Archival Collection
Description
Official publication of Las Vegas, Nevada Rotary Club
Text
The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, June 19, 1975
Date
1975-06-19
Archival Collection
Description
Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club
Text
Brochure, Pioneer Trail of West Las Vegas community
Date
2006
Archival Collection
Description
Brochure highlights and maps historic points of interest in West Las Vegas.
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