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1. Name:
Walgreen's
2. Owner: unkn
3. Address: 3765
S. Las Vegas Blvd.
3b. Additional Site
Details: {site}
4. Condition:
Structure 5
Surface 3
Lighting 5
Notes: See
description
5. Form: fasica
6. Specfic Description:
The Wallgreen's lot is shared with
the Fat Burger establishment, and a strip mall of assorted shops.
The lot is located on the east side of the strip, just north of
the Showcase Mall. On the west elevation of the building the Wallgreen's
cursive, logo script spells out the word "Wallgreens".
The same sign design is repeated on the north face of the building
also. The two signs are crafted out of channel letter, with blue
and red neon in the interior of the channel. In small black channel
letters, a bit further below the logos, there are three separate
sets of much smaller channel letters. These spell the phrases "Pharmacy,"
"24HRS," and "1 Hour Photo." These are also
lined on the interior with red and blue neon. Above the entrance
to the building, a wall sign crafted of neon in the shape of the
"mortar and pestile" is perched above the customers head
as they enter the building from the NW. The entire structure of
the image of the Wallgreen's mortar and pestle, as well as the outline
of the exterior stars, is constructed of one giant pan channel.
The body of the pestle is made of a series of blue neon tubing which
starts in the center of the pan in a square shape and creates a
concentric pattern, filling the pan. Small white neon stars float
to the top of the sign and into the body of the sign. Below that
image, on the same elevated plane, the Wallgreen's script logo is
written in channel letters with white neon. Below that script is
written independently in neon reading "The Pharmacy that America
Trusts." Facing north /south, the street-side, pylon sign for
the Wallgreen's establishment is a multi-use pylon. The sign boasts
advertisements for several other businesses, however the Wallgreen's
advertisement is the most visible and dominant on the face. The
architecture of the sign is mostly a giant, stucco covered vertical
rectangle with a simple crown cornice molding on the top edge of
the structure. The other establishments mentioned on the sign are
as read from the top of the sign to the bottom: Alan Albert's Lobster
House, Club Utopia, Fatburger, and a small back-lit plastic sign
for ice cream and t-shirts. At the bottom of the sign, channel letters
spell the phrase parking in rear, with an arrow of the same concept
pointing east toward the rear of the property. The pylon is two
sided, with almost the entire top of the sign belonging to Wallgreen's,
and sculpted almost completely out of neon. Red, horizontal neon
tubes form a field of light for the neon mortar and pestile, as
seen above the entrance. The red field is also home to the cursive,
Wallgreens logo script, and the phrase "Open 24 hours."
The mortar and pestle are a pan channel including the stars floating
out of the top incorporated into its design. Crafted in blue, with
white neon for the stars, the mortar handle portion sticking out
of the top of the pestile animates to appear as if it is stirring,
while the stars turn on and off, representing the concoction being
stirred in the body of the image. The Wallgreen's script is made
of channel letters filled with white neon. The bottom line of the
sign that reads "Open 24 Hours," is in all caps, and channel
letters with white neon on the interior. They animate in sequence
one word at a time from left to right. Along the vertical edge width
of the sign, the words "The Plaza" are spelled in red
neon.
7. Type of Display:
neon
8. Media: steel
9. Non-neon treatments:
paint
10. Animation:
flashing
Notes: The
wall signs have their own series of animation. The west face of
the building starts by animating the large Script Logo first. The
red neon on the interior of the letters is always on, then one letter
at a time, from left to right each letter's blue neon turns on.
After that sequence, the three words light up one at a time from
left to right. The north wall's wall sign has the same sequence
without the smaller script below. The wall sign over the entrance
animates with the handle of the mortar moving back and forth appearing
as if it is stirring. The stars flash on and off simulating the
motion of the medicine. The phrase: "The Pharmacy That America
Trusts" animates from left to right one word at a time.
11. Environment:
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