Question: What is Illuminarium?
Answer: Illuminarium is the latest addition to AREA 51, the vibrant center of arts and experiences in Las Vegas, Nevada. Illuminarium fully immerses visitors in exhilarating wonders, enriching cultural moments and so much more.
Imagined by Rockwell Group and brought to life by YESCO, Illuminarium's facade is an explosion of color, dimension and dynamic lighting/.
In 2013, retired Las Vegas art director Harold Bradford completed a painting of the Silver Slipper sign mounted on one of our vintage trucks. The painting is based on a black and white photo taken in 1958 in front of the original YESCO Las Vegas building.
Bradford is well-known for designing many of YESCO’s famous displays including the Stratosphere, Buffalo Bill’s, and the Rio Hotel and Casino. Since his retirement from YESCO, Bradford has continued to create similar oil paintings such as a beautiful desert landscape displayed at McCarran Airport.
After its retirement in 1988, the slipper was restored and put on display at the Las Vegas Neon Museum alongside some of Las Vegas’s most iconic neon signs.
To see the original photo, click here.
When Eric Elizondo repairs the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on the Strip, he doesn’t just keep the city’s most beloved icon standing.
He’s putting his hands on family history.
Elizondo is a third-generation “neon bender,” following in the steps of his late father who was one of the artisans credited with building and installing the sign in the late 1950s.
The elder’s specialty was shaping the glass tubes filled with neon gas and electrified to create the evocative glow that bathed the emerging desert oasis. It continues to live strong now despite the dwindling number of neon craftsmen.
Now 65 years old and looking at retirement in about a year, Elizondo is one of only three benders left at Yesco’s Vegas shop and among only 10 in the company nationwide — out of almost 1,000 Yesco employees. A few years ago, Yesco had about 30 benders, he said.
“When LED came around we slowed down a little bit but we’re still going,” he said. “We’re still going good.”
Read the full article written by Hillary Davis at lasvegassun.com
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YESCO announces the installation of a Watchfire 1.9mm 1440-by-2560 fine pitch interior LED display at Onset Financial in Draper, Utah, with assistance from YESCO Creative Solutions.
The Onset Financial LED Display is located in the office lobby.
YESCO Creative Solutions contributed design elements to the new signs, and YESCO worked with Watchfire to install the new, high-resolution 1.9mm LED digital screen.
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“YESCO was proud to fabricate and install this new display at Onset Financial,” said Joel Warden, branch manager, YESCO. “Installing a 1.9mm LED digital screen of this large size is rare, and the enhanced sign makes an eye-catching addition to the building’s lobby.”
