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1. Name:
Arco AM\PM
2. Owner: unkn
3. Address: 2728
S. Las Vegas Blvd.
3b. Additional Site
Details: Amid the few smaller
properties that compose the area north between the Circus Circus
and Sahara Boulevard, the Arco AM/PM is located on the west side
of the Strip between the Guiness/Arby's parking lot to the north
and the Fantasia gift shop to the south. Like many other everyday
institutions located on Las vegas Blvd., it's roadside advertisement
fits into the neon picture with ease. The structure itself is nothing
like the treatment of the pylon, which sits on the eastern most
edge of the property, in close proximity to the street. The actual
mini-mart, customer facility is located in the background, on the
western end of the lot, and faces east. The standard array of fuel
pumps occupy the majority of the remaining space on the lot.
4. Condition:
Structure 4
Surface 4
Lighting
4 notes: The structure, surface and lighting all are around the
same condition. Several neon bars have come loose at the base of
one of the legs, and the neon on the north side of the pylon is
not functioning properly. The surface of the sign is in good shape,
in need of a thorough cleaning.
Notes: See
description
5. Form: plyon
6. Specfic Description:
The pylon sign for Arco AM/PM resides
on the southeastern corner of the property, near the street, sitting
in a planter of rocks. It sits on the west side of the strip, and
faces north/south. The basic shape of the double-backed roadside
pylon is a simple design, similar to any other sign at a typical
gas station. Two square posts support a cabinet wider in diameter
with the lettering and logos for the property. Between the two posts
are three, descending, square, internally lit, message boards, advertising
the price for gas. It stands in a bed of rocks, in close proximity
to the street and faces north/south. The two legs are finished in
a polished, silver, reflective surface. The three internally lit,
white plastic, cabinets advertise for the prices of fuel, and begin
approximately six feet or so from the ground up into open space
inside the legs. At this height, neon wraps the poles, creating
a pattern up the sides. Tubes of white neon wrap the three outer
sides of the pole, repeating every two inches or so, striping the
surface. The legs actually support two smaller cabinets stacked
on top of each other to create a larger surface. The two cabinets
are the same in general dimensions with the top section having rounded
corners. The bottom cabinet is black on the exterior with the inner
face a giant white channel pan lined horizontally with tubes of
white neon. Two sets pan channels are set onto this field. The first
is the two letters "am" and the other being the finishing
portion "pm" The "am" section is painted two-tone
orange and red, and the "pm" is a two-tone purple and
blue. The letters are lined on the inside edge with neon. The white
field is bordered in neon as well. The top cabinet is a blue pan
channel lined horizontally with blue neon. White channel spell "Arco"
in the middle of the field, and four triangular shapes converge
to form the diamond shaped Arco symbol.
7. Type of Display:
neon, backlit
8. Media: steel,
plastic
9. Non-neon treatments:
10. Animation:
chase
Notes: The
white neon bars around the legs of the pylon chase up into the cabinet
11. Environment:
The fueling station resides
on the northern edge of the strip before Sahara Avenue. Directly
to the east, across the street is the Sahara Hotel Casino, but is
flanked by smaller non-resort related properties. Along with the
other two properties to the north and to the south, they seem as
functional aspects for tourists and patrons of the larger properties
of the Circus Circus and the Sahara. Almost dwarfed by the two nearby
giants the properties can easily go unnoticed without the treatment
of the illumination |
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