Pioneer Club Las Vegas was a casino that opened in 1942 and was located in Downtown Las Vegas , Nevada , at 25 East Fremont Street . It ceased operating as a casino in 1995, the same year the Fremont Street Experience was completed.
11-736: Pioneer Club may refer to: Las Vegas Pioneer Club , a former casino in Las Vegas, Nevada Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall , a former casino in Laughlin, Nevada Delta Rho Upsilon , a local Greek fraternity at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin Pioneer Club (women's club) , a progressive women's club established in 1892 in London Pioneer Club (Oklahoma) , listed on
22-617: A West-Marquis firm which invented the Fremont Street Cowboy Vegas Vic and his friendly "Howdy Podner" greeting. The Young Electric Sign Company was commissioned to build the neon version of the sign by the owners of the Pioneer Club. They then commissioned Pat Denner who modeled it after the image used by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in 1947 consisting of a cowboy in blue jeans with
33-417: A yellow-checked shirt and red bandanna. Vegas Vic was then erected on the exterior of the building in 1951 changing the exterior of The Pioneer club forever. Vegas Vic and the exterior of the Pioneer Club are prominently featured in shots from the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever . Pat Denner Pat Denner (1924 – September 25, 2011) was the designer of Vegas Vic . Denner
44-492: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Las Vegas Pioneer Club The Pioneer Club occupied a building that was built in 1918 and originally served as a restaurant . The Pioneer Club and Cocktail lounge opened in April 1942 on the corner of 1st Street and Fremont Street. In 1965, the Pioneer Club bought The Elwell Hotel located at 200 South First St. directly behind
55-664: The NRHP in Oklahoma Pioneer Clubs - an Evangelical Christian co-ed children's ministry Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pioneer Club . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pioneer_Club&oldid=630441840 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
66-628: The Pioneer Club and renamed it the Pioneer Club Hotel. The Hotel was sold in 1969 and became the Golden Hotel. In 1983 The Pioneer Club bought Club Bingo located to the west of it and enlarged its Casino area. From 1956 to 1967, it was called the New Pioneer Club. In 1984 The Golden Nugget bought the hotel and demolished it, building a parking garage for its Casino and Hotel in its place. For many years, The Pioneer Club
77-606: The corner of Main and Broadway in Salt Lake City, he handled many of the prestigious accounts of those days, such as Walker Bank, Equitable Oil Company , Auerbachs Stores, Harman Restaurants, Dee Restaurants and others. Mr. Denner created oils, watercolors and portraiture for many selected clients like the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association in Park City and others from his storefront studio in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pat Denner died September 25, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah at
88-476: The first seat-down menus for Harman Restaurants , home of the KFC in Salt Lake City and then created the likeness of Col. Harland Sanders for the menus and posterity. Back then the franchise was not established and Harman Restaurants had only two locations in Salt Lake City. The 1950s were productive and creative for Denner as an art director and graphic designer. From his studio at Denner & Associates located at
99-456: The large new megaresorts on The Strip. The owners closed the venerable casino in 1995 and it remained vacant until 1998 when Schiff Enterprises bought the Pioneer Club and opened a souvenir store inside. The vintage Pioneer Club signs and Vegas Vic sign still exists on the exterior of the building. Although the Pioneer Club no longer operates as a casino, Vegas Vic (The 40 ft neon cowboy) lives on. In 1947 Las Vegas chamber of Commerce hired
110-688: Was one of downtown's leading casinos. Margaret Elardi who also owned the Frontier Hotel on The Strip and later the Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall casino in Laughlin , owned the club for a while, then Gold Strike Resorts . In 1992 new owners purchased the Pioneer Club but were unable to compete with the larger casinos on Fremont Street both at the beginning and at the end of the Fremont Street Experience or with
121-745: Was raised in Salt Lake City, and studied commercial drawing and design at the Pratt Institute in New York City. In 1951, the Young Electric Sign Company in Salt Lake City commissioned Denner to design an illustration for the manufacturing of the neon sign. He also was commissioned to design Wendover Will for The Stateline Casino in West Wendover , Nevada in 1952. Denner also designed in 1952
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