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Carson Nugget

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1953, 1957, 1980s. 507 N. Carson St.
  • (Photograph by Julie Nicoletta)

Built as a coffee shop in 1953 and converted to a casino in 1957, this structure is less important for its architecture, which has changed over the years, than for its large sign dominating the northwest corner. It copies the famous Las Vegas Golden Nugget sign, designed by Kermit Wayne of the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO), maker of many of the most famous examples in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas sign is gone, a victim of that casino's latest facelift. The Carson City Nugget, a decorated shed built of concrete block, is typical of mid-twentieth-century casino architecture—a long, low, rectangular box to which signs could be attached.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Julie Nicoletta
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What's Nearby

Nevada Commission on Tourism (U.S. Federal Courthouse and Post Office)
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Masonic Temple (Virginia and Truckee Passenger Depot)
Northern Nevada Children's Museum (Civic Auditorium)

Citation

Julie Nicoletta, "Carson Nugget", [Carson City, Nevada], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NV-01-NW073.

Print Source

Buildings of Nevada, Julie Nicoletta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 107-107.

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