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1. Name:
Battista's Hole in the Wall
2. Owner: {owner}
3. Address: 4041
Audrie St. Las Vegas 732-1424
3b. Additional Site
Details: Battista's "hole
in the wall" Italian restaurant is located in a small shopping
mall on the corner of Audrie and Flamingo, just east of the strip.
The actual establishment of Battista's faces east in the northwest
corner of the shopping center. The pylon sign sits on the northwest
corner of FlamingoRd and Audrie st., the entrance to the building
is also adorned with neon signs as well. On the extreme north end
of the property a pole sign for a general store also shares signage
with Battista's.
4. Condition:
Structure 5
Surface 5
Lighting
5
Notes: See
description
5. Form: plyon,
fasica
6. Specfic Description:
The pylon sign for Battista's is
on the corner of Flamingo and Audrie, on the wet side of Audrie.
It is a double- backed roadside pole sign with two cabinets, and
an LED message center. The sign is a host of visual candy, laden
with neon and incandescent bulbs. The upper portion of the sign
is comprised of the larger cabinet, below that the LED message-center,
then below that the smaller cabinet makes up the bottom of the sign.
The top cabinet has sculpted edges created bulging edges as well
as a round top. The two corners are stepped. The bottom of the sign
is a flat horizontal edge. The surface of the sign is painted red.
The majority of the sign's face is occupied by channel letters spelling
"Battista's Italian Rrestaurant," in channel letters with
red neon borders. Below that "Lounge," and then "Banquets"
is spelled one on top of each other in yellow channel letters. Yellow
neon in on the interior of the channels. Two tubes of green neon
extend horizontally from each side of this text.
On the far left and right-hand sides of the cabinet, green neon
scrollwork adorn the space between the main text and the edge of
the cabinet. Spelled in small painted letters above the main text,
resides the phrase "hole in the wall. Yellow neon tubes spell
the same text, hovering over the graphics. In the remaining space
above this text and the top edge, purple and green neon are sculpted
to appear as a bunch of grapes and their vines. The entire sign
is bordered in gold polished raceways with incandescent bulbs. Below
the main section of the cabinet is a tri-colored LED message center,
running scrolling messages about the restaurant in red, white, and
green, which are the colors of the Italian flag. The smaller cabinet
below the message center has sculpted edges also, with the top edge
being straight along the length of the message center. It is painted
green. General store is spelled across the top of the sign in white
channel letters with white neon on the interior.
Graphically painted in red, below the white text, the words "groceries,
beer wine, souvenirs, and slots" are overlayed with red neon.
In the remaining space on the bottom of the cabinet a small logo
for "Coors Light," is graphically painted and overlayed
with corresponding neon. To the left and right of that two arrows
point toward the property, painted in red then overlayed with red
neon. Over the entrance to the building, a wooden A-frame shaped
structure forms a cover over the main entrance to the restaurant.
In an arched pattern on the wooden face of this awning, "Battista's"
is spelled it it's specific text in channel lettering, filled with
neon. Below that in green channel letters, in the same arched pattern,
spell hole in the wall, and has green neon in the interior.
On other side of the dual arched text two, channel designed scrollwork
pieces are illuminated with yellow neon. On the far north end of
the lot a pole sign is designated next to the general store that
the main pylon advertises. The top of the sign is an internally
lit cabinet with graphic treatments for the general store. Incandescent
bulbs line the edge of the cabinet. Further down the pole a small
back-lit, horizontal, rectangular cabinet advertises for the Battista's
establishment. Below that a square, internally lit cabinet, has
red and green graphical treatments reading "Fine Italian Cuisine."
The last bit of signage on the pole is a small, internally lit cabinet,
flag poled off of the east end of the pole with red neon spelling,
"groceries 24 hrs." On the North side of the building
another sign for Battista's is present.
7. Type of Display:
neon, LED, matrix, backlit
8. Media: steel
9. Non-neon treatments:
graphics, paint
10. Animation:
chasing
Notes: The
raceways which run around the border of the surface of the sign,
chase each other from right to left. The incandescent bulbs which
surround the internally lit cabinet on the pole sign designated
for the convenience store also chase each other.
11. Environment:
The Battista's pylon share
unique company when it comes to it's environment. East across Audrie,
is the Bourbon Street Hotel Casino, while the extensive Bally's
property resides south across Flamingo Dr. The small shopping center
proves a break in the action of casino hotels. The pylon stands
as a prominent figure on the corner of the lot. Just to the west
of the pylon, on the same side of the street, is the original Flamingo
pylon, preceding the Barbary Coast. If you continue north on Audrie,
the Flamingo Hilton may be assessed through a drive to the west. |
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