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Artist/Creator (1)	Doriot, Fred
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	architect
Artist/Creator (2)	Wynn, Steven Alan 'Steve' (born 1942)
Artist/Creator (2).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (2).Role	developer
Artist/Creator (3)	Rissman & Rissman Associates (founded ca. 1960, dissolved ca. 2001)
Artist/Creator (3).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (3).Role	architectural firm
Artist/Creator (4)	Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) (founded 1920)
Artist/Creator (4).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (4).Role	electric sign company, designer
Title/Caption	Golden Nugget
Variant Title/Caption	Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino
Site/Creative Center	129 East Fremont Street, Las Vegas (Nevada)
Date of Work	Opened 1946. Tower addition 1972. Facade remodel 1983. Tower addition 1984. Renovation & additions 2006.
Description of View	Corner sign and entrance
Notes	[Acquired by Steve Wynn in 1972. Sold to MGM in 2000 and to Landry Restaurant in 2005] ;Project Description: This long-standing Fremont casino was known for its exuberant neon interpretation of the Gold Rush era. In the late 1980s, the facade was remodeled. Now, the sign has been incorporated into a white marble facade. The words 'Golden Nugget' are spelled in red neon lettering on a carpet of gold lights along the facade of the building. Semi-circular awnings outlined with gold lights shelter the sidewalk. This new understated style is more closely linked to Rodeo Drive than to Fremont Street. ;Project History: When the Golden Nugget opened in 1946, it set the standard for Fremont Street in the way that the Flamingo had set the standard for the Strip. Its sign was a neon version of the Western vernacular style of San Francisco's Gold Rush days. This original sign was done by YESCO's Dick Porter. In 1950, Hermon Boernge, also of YESCO, designed a Golden Nugget sign that featured neon Gilded Age gingerbread and a tantalizing golden nugget. It set the pace ever bigger and brighter neon signs on Fremont Street. In 1957, the Golden Nugget contracted with YESCO for another sign. This one was designed by Kermit Wayne. Based on the false front architecture of the Old West, this Victorian fantasy in neon extended well beyond the roof of the building. It was a bullnose (convex) golden structure with Victorian flourishes outlined in red neon was the background for the word 'Casino' outlined with chasing lights and a huge golden nugget above. The street facades were covered in neon tubing for 100 feet, changing from red to blue every few seconds.
Technique/Process	architecture, electric lighting
Century	20th Century
Subject	American architecture American art 20th Century architecture Gambling casinos Hotels (public accommodations) Entrances Architectural lighting Exterior lighting Decorative lighting Electric lighting Neon lighting Signs (declatory or advertising artifacts) Neon signs
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	Las Vegas Style: Fantasy Architecture and Signs
Reference Number	Art on File LV-13-01-01
Collection Title	Architecture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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