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| Title | Photograph of YESCO workers installing Vegas Vic at the Pioneer Club (Las Vegas), 1951 |
| Group Creator | Desert Sea News Bureau
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| Description | Workers installing the now-famous Vegas Vic sign on the front of the Pioneer Club. Stamped on back of photo: "Photo by Desert Sea News Bureau. Las Vegas, Nevada." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "First Highrise Hotel -- Center of action downtown throughtout the '30s was the Apache Hotel which boasted an elevator and a nitery downstairs. The corner is now Binion's Horseshoe, but the spot has undergone many name changes from Tony Cornero's 'S.S. Rex' to the Eldorado where the mobs were fighting for control of the race wire. Bugsy Siegel's influence was first felt here in the early '40s." |
| Source | Image ID: 0100:0027 |
| Original Collection | Manis Collection
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| Original Date | 1951 |
| Site Name (standardized) | Pioneer Club
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| Site Street Address | 25 East Fremont Street, Las Vegas, NV |
| Type of Site (AAT) | gambling casinos
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| Photo Components (AAT) | signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
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| Graphic Elements (TGM) | Automobiles
Casinos
Electric signs
Men
People
Sidewalks
Streets
Women
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| DC Type | Still Image
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| Genre (TGM) | Pictures
Photographs
Photographic prints
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| Language | eng
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| Digital Collection | Dreaming the Skyline: Resort Architecture and the New Urban Space
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| Digital ID | sky000148 |
