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1. Name:
McDonald's
2. Owner: {owner}
3. Address: 3755
S. Las Vegas Blvd.
3b. Additional Site
Details: The McDonald's pylon
sits in the parking lot just to the north of the Fatburger
establishment and the Walgreen's structures. It faces north/south
in the parking lot of the Cable Center Shops. It sits across a property
length parking lot, near Las Vegas Blvd. It is also serves as advertising
for the rest of the shops in the shopping center, but the main cabinet
is dedicated to the McDonald's logo cabinet.
The shops behind the sign are covered in the same stucco as seen
on the surface of the pylon.
4. Condition:
Structure 5
Surface 4.5
Lighting 5
Notes: It
is noted that the structural integrity is intact. Certain elements
of lighting are out or not working, but present still. The surface
appears to be slightly deteriorating at this point.
5. Form: plyon
6. Specfic Description:
The pylon sign for the McDonald's
and the Cable Center Shops is essentially a double sided pole sign
comprised of a two sided main logo cabinet and an internally lit
rectangular cabinet. The internally lit cabinet located in the middle
of the pole finished it's exterior the same as the rest of the actual
pole. The post is covered in an off white stucco finish, with a
green channel running up the center of each face. The channel T's
off as well following the supporting stretch at the top of the rise,
below the main cabinet. Three gold neon bars run up the center of
the green channel. The internally lit cabinets face is adorned with
graphics advertising for all of the shops located within the strip
mall. Its luminescence is strong for an internally lit cabinet.
A blue section at the top of the plastic face is designated blue
with white script reading "Cable Center" shops. The rest
of the text below that reads like two-sided menu.
The McDonald's cabinet at the very top of the pole is constructed
of red painted steel, as well as yellow painted steel for the golden
arch crown designated as the top portion of the cabinet. The face
of the cabinet is encrusted with red incandescent bulbs as well
as being striped horizontally across its width edge with bars of
red neon. The underside of the golden arches is also encrusted with
yellow incandescent bulbs, while the faces of each arch is striped
horizontally with neon bars as well bordered on the edges of the
ace of the arch as well. The text McDonald's is spelled in white
channel letters and lined on the interiors with white neon.
7. Type of Display:
neon, incandescent, backlit
8. Media: steel,
plastic
9. Non-neon treatments:
paint
10. Animation:
oscillation, flashing
Notes: The
incandescent bulbs located on the underside of the arches, as well
as on the face of the sign oscillate rapidly, while the neon bars
on the width of the sign and underneath chase each other from top
to bottom. The neon bars, which comprise the face of the arches,
chase each other also. The rest of the arch is dark as they start
at the bottom of the middle point of the "M" shape. They
chase each other until the surface of the sign is covered, and at
this time they all flash off, then on, then off again before the
entire sequence starts over.
11. Environment:
It is an interesting section
of the strip between the Showcase Pylon sign and the edge of the
Cable Center shops. First, it is noticeably an interesting cross
section of the Strip, because vicinity has three establishments
which fit a specific genre of sign. The Fatburger,
Walgreen's and McDonalds are properties which function in everyday
America, but are suited up to be part of the neon charged appearance
of this specific location. Not only are the establishments linked
by nature to everyday America, but the face that a strip mall is
added to the scenery, just adds to the point. The environment is
a heavily pedestrian-accessed area, bombarded by the combination
of all of the signage. |
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