STARDUST Las Vegas, Nevada - Sign by YESCO Designer: Kermit Wayne
The Stardust building-front display set a new standard for Strip spectaculars when installed by YESCO in 1958. The 217-ft. long by 27-ft. high facade was mounted on 12 steel columns and not attached to the building. The "earth" sphere may have been the largest plastic globe ever constructed (up to that time). It was located st the point where a break occurs in the V-shaped background, a detail not evident in this view. The fabricated metal, plastic, and neon display required over 30,000 feet of wiring to light its nearly 11,000 electric lamps and 7,000 feet of neon... Designer: Kermit Wayne
Photograph by Nepwork Photos
Scanned from the book "The Magic Sign" by Chuck Barnard
ST Publications, 1993
Page 90
STARDUST Las Vegas, Nevada - Sign by YESCO Designer: Kermit Wayne
The Stardust building-front display set a new standard for Strip spectaculars when installed by YESCO in 1958. The 217-ft. long by 27-ft. high facade was mounted on 12 steel columns and not attached to the building. The "earth" sphere may have been the largest plastic globe ever constructed (up to that time). It was located st the point where a break occurs in the V-shaped background, a detail not evident in this view. The fabricated metal, plastic, and neon display required over 30,000 feet of wiring to light its nearly 11,000 electric lamps and 7,000 feet of neon... Designer: Kermit Wayne
Photograph by Nepwork Photos
Scanned from the book "The Magic Sign" by Chuck Barnard
ST Publications, 1993
Page 90