LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — According to a release from The Neon Museum, a remnant of the Dunes hotel will be reilluminated for the first time since the vintage property closed in 1993.
The sign was purchased by The Neon Museum in 2002. According to the museum, the entrance sign is “the sole surviving public artifact of its famed signage.” The Dunes hotel was imploded in the early 1990s and stood at the modern-day location of the Bellagio hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
The 180-foot pylon set for display at the Las Vegas museum won an award for most significant neon achievement. Its restoration took five months to complete and included repairing a large crack in the sign’s face and recreating its animation pattern with historically accurate bulbs.
“The Dunes sign represents a time when the city was rapidly reinventing itself through spectacle and imagination,” said Aaron Berger, executive director of The Neon Museum. “This is not just Las Vegas history – it’s part of America’s cultural fabric.”
The release detailed the history of the Dunes resort, which included the longest 18-hole golf course in the state at the time in 1964, before becoming the first Las Vegas Strip resort to use explosives in its implosion, with 200,000 spectators watching.
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