Information about the Silver Nugget sign that sits at 2140 N Las Vegas Blvd. Site name: Silver Nugget Casino (North Las Vegas, Nev.) Site address: 2140 N Las Vegas Blvd Sign owner: Lucky Silver Gaming Sign details: Opened 1964 in North Las Vegas. This property also contains a Bowling Alley and an event center. Sign condition: 4, looks that it needs to be cleaned and touched up. Sign form: Super Pylon Sign-specific description: There is a large fiberglass Silver Nugget on top of the sign that reads "Silver Nugget". Grey and white background with White channeled lettering with exterior skeletal neon and incandescent light bulbs contained in the letters. Below is a reader board. Sign - type of display: Neon and Incandescent light bulbs Sign - media: Fiberglass, plastic and steel Sign - non-neon treatments: Fiberglass for scuptural element and plastic for reader board Sign animation: Flasher used for incandescent light bulbs Sign environment: This is located in North Las Vegas near fast food restaurants, residential areas and the North Las Vegas Library. Sign - thematic influences: Silver Nugget Representative of old west style of themes and casinos. Along the lines of Golden Nugget and similar properties. Sign - artistic significance: This casino opened in the same year as Jerry's Nugget and both had the same concept of the nugget in their signage. Though the fiberglass silver nugget is more remnant of Kermit Wayne's 1961 Golden Nugget bull nose sign that featured a fiberglass nugget. Survey - research locations: Silver Nugget Casino website http://silvernuggetlv.com/ Survey - research notes: The website was the only helpful avenue of research on this property. Survey - other remarks: The Neon Museum does have one of their older fiberglass Silver Nuggets in the Boneyard. Surveyor: Wyatt Currie-Diamond Survey - date completed: 2017-08-17 Sign keywords: Pylon; Neon; Incandescent; Fiberglass; Plastic; Steel; Sculptural; Flashing; Reader board
Interview with Charles Salton by George Green on April 23, 1976. Salton discusses arriving in Las Vegas in 1929, after his family had moved from New Jersey to Huntington Beach, California. His father sold real estate, and expected a boom after the authorization for the construction of Hoover Dam. His father was involved in bootlegging and then owned Al's Bar, a drinking and gambling establishment, on the alley at South First Street. Salton describes the area around Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard with businesses and grocery stores, the grammar school and high school, and the hospital. Salton talks about his social activities, including involvement in the Jewish Community Center (Temple Beth Sholom), and several of the bars, clubs and casinos in the area. He briefly discusses the mob influence in the casinos versus corporate ownership and then speaks about the education system in Clark County.
On February 25 1979, collector, Carol A. Semendoff interviewed cashier, Marguerite Goldstein, (born on May 1925 in Oberlin, Kansas) in the library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This interview covers early Las Vegas, from 1950 to 1979. Also included during this interview is discussion on local dignitaries, the growth of Las Vegas, gambling as the major industry in Las Vegas, Strip hotels, and housing developments.