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1. Name:
Klondike Inn
2. Owner: {owner}
3. Address: 5191
S. Las Vegas Blvd. 739-9351
3b. Additional Site
Details: The Klondike Motel Casino
is located on the east side of the strip, just north of the Las
Vegas Tourist Bureau, actually sharing the same lot. The two are
only separated by a small driveway. The mining town theme is exemplified
throughout the exterior of the property with a western style text,
seen on other similar themed properties such as the Frontier. Murals
depicting scenes of prospecting miners and saloons adorn the surface
as well as red steel sides which appears as wood, because of its
horizontal panels. The property stretches north/south with a small
parking lot separating the street from the establishment. Behind
the front building a series of structures house the rooms. The buildings
signage is situated along the face of the building, on the elevated
surface of the walls themselves.
4. Condition:
Structure 4
Surface 4
Lighting 3
Notes: See
description
5. Form:
fasica
6. Specfic Description:
The top edge of the wall entire
face of the building arches, and steps up in various places, and
is lined with gold raceways lined with incandescent bulbs. On the
north side of the main building upon a vast paneled steel surface
the word "Casino" is spelled in giant gold channel letters
painted white on the interior. They are bordered in red neon and
filled with incandescent bulbs. The text for the establishment is
the western type face seen in properties such as the Frontier, or
the Westward Ho. To the right of the text, an internally lit, white
faced, plastic message board message board, is housed in a gold
painted steel cabinet. Moving around the corner to the west face
of the property, we see "Casino" spelled in the same manner
of Cannel letters, flanked on either side by gold painted housings
for cabinets, both crowning with an arched top. Incandescent bulbs
forma border around the housing. Set inside each one of the square
recessed areas is an internally lit, white, plastic faced message
center, with vinyl lettering. Both cabinets are painted red. Below
the main text an internally lit, white plastic faced, message center,
with rounded ended runs the length of the space underneath the letters.
The main entrance is underneath an awning, facing southwest. In
the center of the top edge of the vertical wall above the awning,
a circular internally lit cabinet is bordered with a gold raceway
lined with incandescent bulbs. The surface of the sign is yellow
plastic with the cartoon image of a dancing miner, complete with
pick-axe. Below that Klondike is spelled with metallic channel letters
with yellow plastic faces. The text descends in size toward the
center of the text, then swells back to the original size on the
sides. Below this, "Casino" is spelled in all capital,
channel letters, filled with incandescent bulbs and bordered in
neon. They are treated gold on the exterior and white in the interior.
The awning cover the entrance, and is treated with neon as well.
The face of the square awning is designed with three square recessed
panels, with open bottoms. Three tubes of neon line each one of
the three closed edges. Each tube takes a turn illuminating, red
yellow, and blue. Cantilevered off of the left-hand side of the
entrance roof line, a horizontal black cabinet reads "Vacancy"
painted in white, and overlaid with red neon. The all caps text
faces north/south. Continuing south along the face of the building,
a two leveled stretch of structure, continues the last portion of
the main building. On the red steel fascia continuing, above the
overhang of the second level, "Klondike Hotel" is spelled
in large channel letters, treated the same as those seen on the
north face of the structure. They are painted gold on the exterior
and white on the interiors, filled with incandescent bulbs and bordered
with neon. To the left of the text, one on the golden housings for
the cabinet, seen on the northern end of the west face, is present
but empty. The edge of the overhang, beneath the text is also lined
with a raceway and incandescent bulbs
7. Type of Display:
neon, incandescent, backlit
8. Media: steel,
plastic
9. Non-neon treatments:
paint
10. Animation:
chasing, oscillating
Notes: The
text which spells casino flashes on and steady burns, then oscillates,
steady burns again, then shuts off. Moving around the corner to
the western face, all the raceways bordering all the element s chase
each other, while the incandescent bulbs located within the text
which spells, "Casino" oscillate rapidly. The awning adorned
with neon also animates, changing color flashing from red, then
blue, then gold. The text which reads "Casino" above the
awning is filled with incandescent bulbs which oscillate as well.
The incandescent bulbs in the main text on the southern half of
the western face of the building light up one letter at a time then
once they are all illuminated, then they all begin to oscillate.
Once they oscillate for a few seconds, then they all light up once
again. The sequence is ended once all the letters go dark.
11. Environment:
Located just north of the tourist
bureau, the Klondike has the honor of being the first casino a traveler
encounters as they enter the Strip. Besides the company of the tourist
bureau and the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, it stands rather solitary.
It's collection of pulsating bulbs and neon make the Klondike the
most dominant force in its presence. |
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