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1. Name:
Blue Note
2. Owner: Blue
Note International: Father & Son team of Danny and Steven Bensusan
3. Address: 3663
Las Vegas Blvd.
3b. Additional Site
Details: The Blue Note is located
a short distance east, down Harmon Ave., on the north side of the
street, facing south. It is part of the Aladdin Hotel Casino. A
vacant lot resides on the corner, and is the only thing that separates
the Blue Note from the Strip. Signage for the property includes
two logo wall signs on the west wall of the building, a vertical
blade sign and an entrance sign over the main port to the establishment.
4. Condition:
Structure 5
Surface 5
Lighting
5
Notes: See
description
5. Form: fasica
6. Specfic Description:
Just east off of Las Vegas Blvd,
down Harmon Ave, lies the entrance to the "Blue Note: Jazz
Capital of the World." The Blue Note is actually part of the
Aladdin property, residing in the eastern most wing of the building,
on the south side of Harmon. The majority of the signage hangs on
the front of the building, which faces south toward Harmon Ave.,
with additional signage on the west face of the structure that extends
from the Aladdin property. A vacant lot on the north east corner
separates the Blue Note from the rest of the strip. The structure
of the building and the design of the signage are juxtaposed with
the building still being finished in a Persian Palace theme. While
the signs are reminiscent of roaring twenties style font and theatre
front design. Several different types of signs adorn the Blue Note.
Two wall /logo signs hang on the west side of the building, while
a sculpted entrance marquee, a hanging logo sign, and a vertical
blade sign hung on the south side of the building. The west wall
logo sign is composed of blue channel letters spelling the text
" Blue Note," separated by a circular cabinet with a tube
of neon bent to emulate the shape of a musical note placed in the
middle. Five steel bars just out from either side of the cabinet.
Below the text, a white steel cabinet with rounded ends, support
a thin set of blue channel letters reading, "Jazz capital of
the world." Further to the right a set of pink channel letters
rest upon the upper portion of the corner of the structure. The
letters are filled with pink neon. Along the South face of the building
the first sign, hung in close proximity to the southwest corner,
a vertical blade sign sits on a radius base of shaped molding jutting
out of the wall. The actual body of the sign is a double backed
cabinet finished in polished aluminum, with blue pin striping along
the edges as well as along the rounded edge of the top. Near the
top of the sign, the same rounded cabinet seen on the west wall
of the structure, is integrated into the blade facing east/west.
The cabinet is thicker in width to compensate for the width of the
actual sign. The edges of the steel structure are painted in the
same blue tone. The afore mentioned blue neon tubing fashioned into
the shape of the note resides in this cabinet also. Along the east/west
sides of the sign the text "The Blue Note," runs vertically
from top to bottom, in blue channel letters only interrupted by
the circular cabinet. The panel, which the text resides is painted
white. Along the edge of the blade, which faces south, the text
"Blue Note" is spelled vertically in blue channel letters.
Sitting along the edge of the base, which the sign sits on, thin
red channel letters stand almost independently, wrapping around
the radius of the base. Starting on the west side of the sign and
finishing on the east side, the text reads "Club & Café."
These letters are filled with tubes of red neon. The letters are
attached to a backing radius band of metal appearing to be gold.
Further down the face of the building the main entrance to the building
plays host to an overhead marquee/logo sign incorporating sculptural
elements as well. Directly in the center of the composition, a long
horizontal cabinet plays host to the red channel letters filed with
red neon, reading, "World's Finest Jazz Club." Sitting
on the top edge of the cabinet the same configuration of the Blue
Note logo sign along with the circular cabinet, rests in front a
sculpted piece of black steel. This piece of black painted steel
is cut to appear as if it is the open top to a piano. Along the
interior edge of the lid tubes of blue neon form a blue border.
Between the piano top and the Blue Note logo, a horizontal steel
grate serves as a divider as well as support for the blue channel
letters. This entire section sits on a long horizontal ledge composed
of a long polished steel section with a long LED message center
just below that. Slightly recessed below the message center another
width of overhang constructed of steel is painted to appear as if
it is made of piano keys. Along the wall, just above the door, the
pink channel letters read "Insomnia" with pink neon on
the interior.
7. Type of Display:
neon
8. Media: steel,
fiberglass
9. Non-neon treatments:
paint
10. Animation:
n/a
Notes: n/a
11. Environment:
Situated just east off the
strip, down Harmon Avenue, the Blue Note is the only attraction
in its immediate area. Even though it is part of the Aladdin complex,
the closest property is the Harley Davidson Café on the south
east corner of Harmon and Las Vegas Blvd. At night, the property
loses its Arabian Nights architecture emitting a sultry glow of
neon. It is hard to miss, if a pedestrian peers down the street
while traveling north or south, on the east side of the strip. During
the day, the architecture helps to blend in the property to appear
as it is, part of the Aladdin. |
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