About Las Vegas Neon (1960)
Las Vegas Neon is the Strip after dark in 1960, before the corporate mega-resorts, when a single marquee could outshine the desert horizon and a font could gamble. Hot-pink and electric-cyan glass tubing traces cursive against dead-black night; googie starbursts explode off corners; thousands of amber chase bulbs blink in sequence. Nothing here is a flat surface — only a lit one. Every glyph is its own light source, wrapped in a colored bloom halo, floating in true black like the Fremont boneyard at midnight. The city got brighter after sunset, and this system means to buzz.
- Origin
- Las Vegas, Nevada — the Strip & downtown Fremont Street
- Era
- 1946–1965 (peak neon 1958–1962 Strip & Fremont 'Glitter Gulch')
- Key figures
- Betty Willis · Kermit Wayne · Wayne McAllister · Thomas Young
- Movements
- Googie / Populuxe roadside architecture · Atomic Age modernism · Commercial neon signcraft
Las Vegas Neon (1960) design spec
Colors
Typography
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