Chief Hotel Court neon sign on display in downtown Las Vegas
The Chief Court Hotel neon sign was originally installed around 1940 at the hotel formerly located at 1201 E. Fremont Street. The hotel architect was A. Lacey Worswick. The sign was loaned and refurbished by the Tiberti Family. It was installed as part of the Neon Museum on July 8, 1997. This sign can now be found on the northeast corner of Fremont Street Experience and 4th Street.
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The restored John E. Carson Hotel neon sign June 20, 2014
The newly restored John E. Carson Hotel neon sign. The old Carson Hotel on 6th and Carson has been transformed and is now the the home for Carson Kitchen, Oface doughnuts, a juice bar and other new downtown shops and offices.
John E. Carson neon sign on Dec 30, 2011
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June 26 2014
Purple Sage Motel on the east end of Fremont Street near Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada
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No Vacancy-Old Broken Neon
The old Ambassador East Motel sign on the far end of East Fremont Street. The Ambassador East Motel was demolished in 2007. The sign still remains and will be part of the neon museum collection.
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Vegas Motel with it vintage neon sign
Notice the star atop, a style used on the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign.
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Atomic Liquors Now Closed Now Opened
Joe and Stella Sobchik opened their Fremont Street bar some 50 years ago when the desert shook from atomic bomb detonations at the Nevada Test Site.
The bar at 971 E. Fremont Street, a couple of blocks east of the Blvd. Barbara Streisand shot pool there, the pools tables are still there, and it is rumored that everyone from Frank Sinatra to the Smothers Brothers stopped in for drinks over the years. You see it is far enough away from the Strip that even headliners could stop in a be a regular Joe, or Frank or Dean. Several movies, including some westerns and 1995’s “Casino,” used the bar as a backdrop. Atomic Liquors is one of the oldest continually open bars in Las Vegas still kept by the original owners, and hold liquor license Number 00001. Stella once told me that she used to sit facing the front door and watched the mushroom clouds rise in the distance, that view has since been blocked by buildings.
Stella Sobchick who ran the bar with her husband Joseph, passed away on Jan 15, 2011 at the age of 91. Joe passed away 3 months earlier also at 91 years. They had run the business for 55 years.
Update: Atomic Liquor is back in business.
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