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1. Name:
O'Shea's Casino
2. Owner: Park
Place Entertainment
3. Address: 3555
S. Las Vegas Blvd.
3b. Additional Site
Details: O'Shea's Casino is located
just north across a small driveway from the Flamingo. The small
but busy façade is a small, yet busy stop along the Las Vegas
Strip. The exterior signage consists of two corner signs, a blade
sign, hanging off of the west face of the building, a main entrance
sign, backlit screens as well as various images laden with neon.
All of these create a flashing display of luminescence all just
above the pedestrian's head.
4. Condition:
Structure 5
Surface 5
Lighting 5
Notes: See
description
5. Form: fasica
6. Specfic Description:
O'Shea's Casino is located just
north across a small driveway from the Flamingo. O'Shea's theme
and signage is influenced by Irish culture and imagery, integrated
into the forms of signage along the Las Vegas Strip. The building
design itself is influenced by traditional European housing imagery,
generalized with other elements of architecture also. One example
of this is the coloring, exposed wooden beams and narrow rooflines
over treated windows, which suggest styles seen in classic European
architectural imagery. Examples of other elements such as sculpted
windowsills and exterior molding are more akin to neoclassical than
the Irish pub or cottage. A small blade sign hangs in the center
of the structure facing north /south. Attached off of the building
by two poles, the double sided cabinet is designed with a circular
portion at the top that transforms along it's bottom edge into length
portion of the "blade" that continues down to a rounded
bottom. The Circular portion serves as the "O" in O'Shea's.
The exterior of the signs width is finished in a polished gold aluminum
surface. The top portion continues into a full circular space in
the front where the backlit image of the O'Shea's leprechaun mascot
resides in it's center. The image has a circular green neon border
at the edge of the cabinet and is set into a field of incandescent
bulbs, which occupy the remaining space in the face of the "O".
Incandescent bulbs also run around the edge of a face on a gold
raceway. Channel letters run vertically down the face of the blade
spelling the remaining "Sea's" of the title. Each letter
is filled with incandescent bulbs, and bordered on it's exterior
in green neon. The remainder of the space, which comprises the surface
of the sign, is a green material. The entire edge of the rest of
the sign is also bordered with incandescent bulbs. Below the blade
sign, the main entrance for the establishment is denoted by the
large, arched, marquee logo, and wall sign for the casino. The arch
shape is bordered by gold polished raceways, with the interior space
where the O'Shea's logo is written in a bowed, horizontal arrangement
with the "O" and "S" being the biggest letters
in this group. The same back-lit leprechaun figure which is present
in the blade sign, in seen in the "O" of the logo. The
letters are of channel design and filled with incandescent bulbs.
Gold scrollwork adorns the green background above and on the sides
of the logo. An entablature, running the length below the arch,
reads "casino" in channel letters filled with incandescent
bulbs and bordered with green neon. The orange background in contained
on the bottom edge with a gold polished raceway, which sharply curves
into a downward point at the very center. All the raceway edges
of the sign are lined with incandescent bulbs. Flanking the wall
on either side of the main entrance are two backlit message centers
with vinyl lettering. They also are bordered with incandescent bulbs,
strewn upon polished raceways. To the south toward the Flamingo
Casino, a corner marquee sign faces toward the southwest. The message
center on the right of the main entrance essentially continues its
shape wrapping in radius fashion all the way around the corner.
As the entablature wraps the corner, the color changes to a section
of black, containing the channel letters hung at a slight angle,
spelling the words " Hall of Fame," in cursive text. Small
stars in channel design adorn the black background. On the left
of the text, O'Shea's is painted in red paint, in a cursive script
at a similar angle as the premier text. Neon is shaped over the
surface of the letters to allow it to be spelled in light. The word
"Casino" is spelled on the right hand side, and treated
in the same fashion. A top the black portion of pediment, the sign
continues with it's corner finishing, rounded marquee, containing
the text, "Magic & Movie," in a three lined arrangement.
Putting the two signs together the appropriate title for the advertisement
of the attraction is read "Magic and Movie Hall of Fame."
The channel letters on the top portion are filled with neon and
treated white on the interiors. The edge of the cabinet is treated
with white bull nose borders, sandwiching a field of pink holding
two tubes of contoured neon. At the peak of the sign a small element
reminiscent of a fan, created using a multi layered box, uses different
levels receding into space, with the center blade at the front of
the sign. The sections are lined with gold raceways and incandescent
bulbs, with the center blade being horizontally striped with tubes
of neon. Two small gold finished gargoyle statues flank either side
of the theatre-esque entrance. Underneath the overhang created by
the corner sign, polished aluminum element creates a sloping drum
shape above the door. This drum is divided into sections by gold
polished raceways. The flat portion, which returns to the ceiling
of the overhang is adorned with painted images of clovers, encircled
in rings of green neon. This section is reminiscent of the top section
of the corner drum of the Barbary Coast. The black pediment along
the south portion of the building., abruptly changes to the orange
color seen on the main entrance. Along the south wall section of
the pediment green pan channels in the shape of clovers hang, lined
on the interior with neon. A small sign denoting parking is also
present. Another corner entrance is located on the north end of
the property, facing northwest. It too has the rounded corner entrance
and logo sign. Slightly different than the main entrance, the same
"Casino text and structure is seen on the orange pediment above
the door, as well as the channel logo with the mascot located in
the letter "O." A three-sectioned panel with swooping
wings and an arched center creates the field for the main logo.
A more busy section of two dimensional scrollwork sits below the
neon filled text. The wings of the top section a recessed panels
with checkerboard design behind that. Each side of the entire top
section is book ended with two small square posts. Three small miniature
spires line the very top, and the same inverted drum shape sits
underneath the door. Street posts reside on the sidewalk outside.
7. Type of Display:
neon, incandescent, backlit
8. Media: steel,
plastic
9. Non-neon treatments:
n/a
10. Animation:
chasing, oscillating
Notes: all
incandescent bulbs chase each other
11. Environment:
Being essentially part of the
Flamingo, O'Shea's is only separated by a small drive, producing
the easy traffic flow from the north entrance of the former. The
north of O'Shea's on the immediate vertical explosion of the front
tower/porte cochere of the Imperial Palace. It is easy to say that
O'Shea's is sandwiched in between two giants, assuming its place
as the charming gap between the Flamingo and the Imperial Palace
which is quite a bit more pedestrian friendly. Traveling north on
the east side of the strip, O'Shea's is not hard to miss at all
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