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1. Name:
Arby's/Guinness World of Records
2. Owner: Arby's:
Schultzen and Harry Sax, Guinness: ?, Cj's: PDS Gaming used to be
Carl Fredrickson
3. Address: 2776
Las Vegas Blvd, 2780 Las Vegas Blvd
3b. Additional Site
Details: Located in a small lot
on the west side of the strip, north of the giant Circus Circus
pylon, and just north of the Arco AM/PM, the Arby's fast food establishment
shares property and a sign with Guinness World of Records, and CJ's
Slot Sales Facility. The Arby's is located in the front of the lot
facing the strip, flanked on either side by drives. The "L"
shaped structure for the other two establishments lies in the rear,
western portion of the lot. To the north of the property, is vacant
desert, stretching to Sahara Ave. To the south is Fantasia Gifts.
Text signage adorns both structures, as well as a small pylon on
the front northeast corner of the property. This sign is located
in close proximity to the street.
4. Condition:
Structure 4
Surface 3
Lighting 3 The structural
integrity of all the signs on the property seem to be stable and
in decent repair. The surface of the Guinness channel letters is
faded, and showing patches of white. The lighting on the Guinness
sign does not work, but the main pylon is functional. Even though
CJ's slot sales are not present in this location any more, the text
on the pylon for CJ's is functional and animating. The backlitlit
letters on the Arby's facility are functional, but the red channel
letters are not.
Notes: See
description
5. Form: plyon,
fasica
6. Specfic Description:
The north and south sides the Arby's
building contain red painted, channel letter text, reading "Museum
& Gift Shop," with a lengthy channel arrow underlining
the above text and pointing toward the buildings located at the
rear of the property. The pylon sign is on the north end of the
property, across the drive from the establishment itself. It is
basically a two-sided, vertically standing rectangle, divided into
two sections by a narrow LED message center. The top half belonging
to Arby's and the bottom half designated for the Guinness establishment.
Both are placed on a smaller section, which serves as the base.
The top half is finished in mirrored panels, providing a reflective
surface for the Arby's logo. The insignia for the establishment
is the outline of a ten-gallon cowboy hat, with the text spelling
"Arby's," displayed cutting through the outline onto either
side of the object. The entire logo is constructed of crafted channel
raceways. Two separate yellow pieces form the top and bottom portions
of the hat, while the text is created in orange. All the channels
are filled with incandescent bulbs, and outlined in neon. The bottom
portion of the sign is also two sided with, a yellow tinged face
providing space for a four lined series of text. The text reads,
"Guinness World of Records Museum," in red channel letters,
and filled with neon, of the same color. The entire sign itself
is bordered in neon. The remaining exposed face of the cabinet is
finished with mirrors also. The bottom edge of the cabinet is a
sloped mirrored surface which angles down into thinner, but equally
wide base that contains signage also. In polished channel letters,
internally lit with red plastic faces, the text "Slot Sales,"
resides and contains a small arrow of the same design on the western
edge of the sign. A black internally lit cabinet sits beneath that.
The sides of the lower portion are mirrored panels as well.
The wall signs of the building at the rear of the property, are
similar to those seen on the north and west sides of the Arby's
establishment. The signs run parallel to the walls of the face of
the building. The building is "L" shaped with the leg
of the "L" pointing east, and the longer section running
north. Supported on a background held up with a series of cylindrical
columns, a façade of gold, raceway bordered message banner,
runs along the east face. It then recedes west along the leg of
the "L", parallel to the northern face section, and angles
back to meet the rest of the building. The text on the sign is spelled
in red channel letters, and bordered with yellow neon. Along the
shortest section facing east, the word "Guinness" is spelled.
The section shooting west, and facing north, possesses the text
"World of Records." The texts in both sections are almost
as tall as the banner itself and in all capitals. The angled portion
has smaller text, reading "Entrance" and two arrows pointed
down on either side. The remainder of the eastern face is blank
until the northern end of the face. On the wall above the entrance
two cabinets flank a set of red channel letters reading "CJ's."
The edges of the cabinet on either side of the center initials,
is crafted in a triangular peak, making the two signs into arrows
pointing toward the center. The outside edges are negative triangular
cuts, echoing the other pointed end. The edges of the cabinet are
crafted out of red raceways, lined with incandescent bulbs. Red
channel letters, filled with neon occupy the white background on
both cabinets. The left cabinet reads "Slot" and the right
reads "Sales."
7. Type of Display:
neon, incandescent,
8. Media: steel,
plastic, glass
9. Non-neon treatments:
paint
10. Animation:
flashing, oscillation
Notes: The
incandescent bulbs within the edge of the Arby's pylon logo chase
11. Environment:
The environment of the Arby's
Guinness complex is one of finality. To the north a vacant lot stretches
on, leaving the Arby's dangling in conclusion on the west side of
the strip. Even though giants such as the Sahara and the Circus
Circus loom nearby, the Arby's complex seems very alone. |
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