Dunes Hotel & Casino

This piece does not have neon, but it has LED tubes that are similar to the original florescent tubes that would have backlit the Dunes Entrance portion.

Sheet metal, acrylic, candelabra lightbulbs, LED tubes, electrical wiring and a 6-point flasher.

Yes, it was moved to Hartlauer Signs shop.

Yes, multiple signs have been relocated within the Boneyard including two stars from the Stardust (yellow and pink) and 2 figures from Gameworks. The Fitzgeralds clover and Opera House ‘A’ were moved out of the Boneyard and into storage within the Boulevard Gallery. The Silver Slipper shield sign was shifted down about 10 feet south to where the Fitzgeralds clover sign was.

The sign was removed from the Neon Boneyard on April 7 of 2025, and restoration was complete in August. The piece will be installed at the Boneyard in September 19, 2025.

The metal structure was at the same location in the Boneyard. The acrylic piece was at Aaron Berger’s office.

This restored sign is placed at the same location as before in the Neon Boneyard.

There are 3 lighting units within the backlit portion of the piece. There are about 100 incandescent candelabra lightbulbs.

Yes, it has a 6- point flasher which allows the light bulbs to scintillate.

Automotive grade coating known in the sign industry as “Black Sign Paint” was used for the sign cabinet. The verso of the piece was not painted to show an example of the original paint. The lower elevation was replicated using a custom textured resin poured grid pattern.

Minimal metal work needed, warping of metal on channeling on proper right sid omplete painting work of metal structure. Construction of a new piece to replicat the original component on bottom part of sign box.

When installed at the Neon Boneyard, it required a newly fabricated angle iron frame to rise above Lido de Paris sign.

1,200 Ibs. including the display frame.

W 7.5’x D 1.5’x H 10′ The piece will be elevated 30 inches by its frame.

Two different pieces, metal structure cabinet and acrylic ‘Dunes Entrance’ insert.

Hartlauer Signs.

• Ad Art original stickers were covered with special painter’s tape to protect them during the painting portion of this restoration.
• The two pieces were separated since the early 2000s before being reassembled for this restoration.
• Around 95% of the original sockets and wiring were in working condition when the restoration began.
• One of the sign electricians working on this restoration, Warren Donlon, used to do maintenance work on the Dunes 180-feet main pylon and other signages around the property in the late 1980s and 1990s.