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1. Name:
Fantasia on the Strip
2. Owner: {owner}
3. Address: 2800
S. Las Vegas Blvd. 734-8808
3b. Additional Site
Details: Fantasia on the Strip
is located north of the Circus Circus, among the smaller properties
located the northern end of the Strip before Sahara Avenue. The
building faces east, only separated from the street by a small parking
lot, which runs along the front of the property. The two-story building
is adorned with a building length message cabinet, and sculpted,
patterned raceways. The sign extends north across a drive designating
parking in the rear. A small pole sign also sits on the east edge
of the property.
4. Condition:
Structure 3
Surface 4
Lighting 4
Notes: The
Fantasia establishments signage looks decently weathered up close,
for the colors and paint treatments are in good condition. The structure
of the sign has a couple of anomalies that are apparent. The pole
sign on the street side of the property has no face on the triangular
portion of the surface. The far right hand side of the building
fascia makes an uncomfortable transition into the support structure
from the ground.
5. Form: plyon,
fasica
6. Specfic Description:
{The design is a building front,
message cabinet running the length of the façade of the building,
facing east. The white, steel, paneled front cabinet contains Blue
and red plastic text. The larger fonts run the entire length of
the sign and read "Souvenirs, T-shirts, Gifts, Indian Jewelry,
Moccasins, Liquor," in an "old west" style text seen
on properties such as the Frontier. This arrangement's color is
blue. The bottom line of text is smaller and is broken up into three
separate phrases and distributed evenly across the surface. The
left side reads, " Jewelry, Belts, Hats, Cactus" in red
cursive. The center is blue western font, reading "Las Vegas
Souvenirs." The right hand side is red cursive again reading
"Sundries, Food, Beer Wine, Ice." The bottom and top edges
are lined with yellow raceways with incandescent bulbs. The top
edge is created by a repeating series of raceway arches, matching
the finish of the other edges. The top edge of repeating arches
continues north past the edge of the cabinet onto a smaller, much
thinner cabinet. The thinner cabinet looks as is if it is a continuation
of the main sign with pieces cut out of it. The arches continue
to the end of the extension and down connecting to a steel I-beam
linked to the ground. The smaller plane reads "park in rear"
in red, plastic, all capital, letters. Raceway arrows protrude through
the bottom of the sign, pointing through the entrance it creates
for traffic. The arrows are arranged on the bottom edge as if they
are extensions of the imaginary points created by the meeting of
the downward strokes two sides of two arches. Across the very top
of the main banner, a narrow, red, steel cabinet reads the word
"Fantasia" in white script. The script is surfaced with
neon. Near the street, on the northern portion of the property,
a pole sign holds an internally lit cabinet. The frame of the cabinet
is a blue raceway whose western edge is fashioned into an arrow
shape. White plastic comprises the face of the sign, which faces
north south, and does not reach into the arrow section. It is a
skeleton of a frame, with nothing in the middle. Translucent vinyl
lettering is present on the face of the sign and reads "Liquor,
Moccasins, Indian Jewelry ½ off," in all capital letters.
7. Type of Display:
neon, incandescent, backlit
8. Media: steel,
plastic
9. Non-neon treatments:
paint
10. Animation:
chasing
Notes: The
only animation present is the animation of the incandescent bulbs
on all the raceways surrounding the signs. The bulbs chase each
other from left to right.
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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