Photo shows a daytime view of the Pollyanna Inn sign on the Strip. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survey Data Sheet.
Site address: 4915 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign details: North of the Klondike on the east side of Las Vegas Blvd., the Pollyana Inn sits separated on both sides by vacant lots. The establishment is no longer functioning, but is still present and standing. Inside an ornate, and locked, wrought iron gate, the Pollyana Inn sits dark, no cars present, and no patrons around. The closed facility sits separated from the street by a small parking lot. It too follows the true form of the roadside motel with its front office combined with a covered car port, then opening up into a square parking lot surrounded by lowrise stretches of adjacent rooms. The salmon and white alternating stripes of the buildings exterior surface is reminiscent of the color schemes popular in the establishment's heyday. In the cracked and broken pavement in the parking lot, small statuary of animals adorn the dying flowed beds, and shrubbery. Many of the plants still exist and flourish on the property. On the north side of the parking lot a statuette of a lion looks out onto the street and a fountain sits next to the building. In the center of the front of the lot, a triangular shaped, brick planter, home to bushes, a statuette of an elephant along with the pole sign for the property. The right of the lot is bordered off by a large non-functional, broken down internally lit message cabinet.
Sign condition: Structure 3 Surface 3 Lighting 3
Sign form: pylon
Sign-specific description: The pylon sign for the establishment's roadside pole sign is located in the triangular planter, facing north/south on the west edge of the property. A white steel pole supports an internally lit, double backed, white, plastic faced message cabinet. The cabinet is actually two narrow, horizontal, rectangular cabinets stacked on top of each other. The exterior steel casing is painted a dark olive hue. The top cabinet spells "Pollyanna Motel" in red plastic letters, with vinyl lettering on the message board below. Small steel cabinet is attached to the west side of the underbelly of the sign. "Vacancy is spelled in white text with neon spelling "No". The pole continues up through the top of the cabinet and is crowned with a small ,internally lit, brown cabinet. A yellow raceway with incandescent bulbs runs along the entire outer edge. The yellow plastic face has the image of a tilted sombrero on it.
Sign - type of display: Neon, incandescent, backlit
Sign - media: steel, plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: graphics, paint
Sign animation: chasing, flashing
Surveyor: Joshua Cannaday
Survey - date completed: 2002
Sign keywords: Chasing; Flashing; Graphics; Paint; Steel; Plastic; Pylon; Neon; Incandescent; Backlit

Daytime and nighttime views of the Polo Towers signs on the Strip. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survey Data Sheet.
Site address: 3745 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign details: The Polo Towers actual facility is located behind the shopping center, further to the east. The small pylon resides outside in the very front of the property, in close proximity to Las Vegas Blvd It is surrounded with a planter and bushes, in a pedestrian environment, shadowing a seated courtyard, just to the south. The tower itself is lined on its major edges with tubes of purple neon. The tower also contains internally lit cabinets as well as polished metal treatments.
Sign condition: Structure 4 Surface 3 Lighting 4 The building itself is in great shape, with the structural integrity, lighting, and surface being is good condition. The small pylon adjacent to Las Vegas Blvd is in some disrepair in all of the categories.
Sign form: Pylon; Fascia
Sign-specific description: The Polo Towers lies Just north of the McDonalds plaza, along with a shopping plaza out front near the street. The plaza has a different name, this is designated by the polo towers pylon facing north/south on the east side of the street. The Pylon sign for the polo towers sits in this parking lot for this plaza. The pylon consists of a double backed backlit plastic message cabinet, a color LED matrix screen, two square message boxes on either side, one diamond shaped one then the marquee and logo for the polo towers. On the bottom of the sign, on the side closest to Las Vegas Blvd, a clear plastic front, diamond shaped message center reads "polo tourist center" behind the glass. A bulb laden center pole is noticeable at the bottom along with two larger legs on either side. The text is painted in red and then overlaid with red neon. Just above that, a light blue, backlit message center, boasts a white plastic surface with purple text. Incandescent bulbs border the edges of the cabinet. Directly above this is a color LED screen. The center-pole continues up past the message center, eventually transforming into a diamond shaped cabinet. On either side of the center pole, just above the LED screen are two smaller, square, message cabinets. They too are painted the same light blue as the large cabinet, as well as possessing incandescent bulb raceways as borders. One contains the Polo Towers logo of the silhouetted horse's head, with the text "Polo Towers Tourist Center," in black and purple. The other reads text or free maps and discount show tickets. From the tops of these cabinets, two sections reach upwards following the bottom edges of the diamond created out of the center pole. These two angled sections are both striped with a repeating series of red neon along their width. The previously mentioned center pole is flat, with the face laden with incandescent bulbs. This flat front pole continues up to form a diamond, with the actual pole section running along the bottom edge of the diamond, between the neon laden angled sections, and the marquee cabinet. The continuation of the pole, extends to run along the top of the diamond, but stops short of totally enclosing it. The incandescent bulbs cover the face of the pole along this edge also. Red neon tubing runs up the edges of this centerpiece. The top cabinet, which the centerpiece seems to he holding, is also painted light blue, with a purple face, and the black horse silhouette logo for the Polo towers. Two pieces of red neon are bent to act as glowing pieces of the horse's mane. Just below the top image of the horse, "Polo Towers" is spelled, floating above the surface of the sign in purple, channel letters. Below that in purple channel letters, on the same plane, the text "& Plaza" is crafted in the same fashion. Both rows of text are filled with incandescent bulbs that oscillate. The surface of the body of the sign, excluding the cabinets, is finished in stucco and laced with the smatterings of the lavender and light blue hue found throughout the sign. The building of the Polo Towers itself has pieces of purple vertical neon running up the edges of the building in several places. The radius section on the east west faces of the tower is also lined purple across its vertical edges. Giant purple channel letters spell Polo Towers across the very top of the building's West face. On the North and South faces of the tower, the giant diamond shaped cabinets with the Polo Towers logo hang with steady confidence. At the base of the west side of the building, there is also the internally lit, diamond shaped cabinets with the horse's head, rendered in black/ the white cabinets are bordered with a hot pink colored neo, recessed behind the polished metal, to create a halo on the wall.
Sign - type of display: Neon; Incandescent; Backlit
Sign - media: Steel; Plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: Paint
Sign animation: Chasing, flashing, oscillating
Notes: The incandescent bulbs inside the text reading "Paris" on the balloon oscillate rapidly.
Sign environment: The small pylon sits outside a Starbucks Coffee located in the front row of shops, surrounded with bushes. The environment is pedestrian heavy.
Sign manufacturer: Federal Signal
Sign - date of installation: 1985-1989
Sign - thematic influences: The theme present in the polo towers revolves around its name, and references to the sport of polo. But the only exterior images that reference the theme are the logos themselves. The sign itself is more akin to roadside pylon signs, utilizing a number of different sign techniques functions to create an interesting mix of design. The color scheme does seem to reference the time of its inception, that being the eighties. The eighties is recognized with the usage of teal, pink and gold. The brass cabinet enclosed in plexiglass, references the typical Vegas adornment.
Surveyor: Joshua Cannaday
Survey - date completed: 2002
Sign keywords: Chasing; Flashing; Pylon; Fascia; Neon; Incandescent; Backlit; Steel; Plastic; Paint; Oscillating

Evening views of the Psychic Sessions signs on the Strip. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survey Data Sheet.
Site address: 3941 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign condition: Structure 4 Surface 3 Lighting 4
Sign form: Fascia
Sign - type of display: Neon; Incandescent; Backlit
Sign - media: Steel; Plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: Graphics; Paint
Sign animation: none
Sign environment: Psychic Sessions has the unique position of being located in the same lot as the Happi Inn. In fact its structure is attached to the Happi Inn, on the south side of the Happi Inn's main office. This facility adds a unique position to the already mysterious air of the southern Strip, especially at night. The red illumination of the neon is a perfect tone for the already mysterious business, which the signs advertise for. The side of the lot, which it occupies, is considerably less lit as a whole, making the mood a rather eerie if not "Twilight Zone-esque" Such establishments are not seen in the modern day Strip environment.
Sign - thematic influences: The signage for the Psychic Sessions facility leans toward your typical store front signage when you want to talk about a raw aesthetic criteria, but there is a theme present, limited as it may be. The theme as you might imagine is directly associated with the services provided inside. Neon tubing is fashioned into a big silhouette of a hand referencing the palmistry business, while the graphics of the mysterious eyes on the internally lit cabinet literally scream out mystery.
Surveyor: Joshua Cannaday
Survey - date completed: 2002
Sign keywords: Fascia; Neon; Incandescent; Backlit; Steel; Plastic; Graphics; Paint