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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a Las Vegas Strip landmark created in 1959 by Betty Willis and Ted Rogich for Clark County, Nevada . Willis received $4,000 for her work. The design is characteristic of the Googie architecture movement which was popular at the time. The sign was built by Western Neon . Over the years, the sign has been moved south several times on Las Vegas Boulevard as growth has continued. The back of the sign reads "Drive Carefully" and "Come Back Soon". When seen up close, the circles with the letters of the word "WELCOME" reveal themselves to be silver dollars.The sign is currently located in the center island of Las Vegas Boulevard across from the (now closed) Klondike Hotel & Casino and owned by Young Electric Sign Company which leases it to Clark County. Some consider the sign to be the "official" southern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The sign, like most of the strip, sits in the town of Paradise and is located roughly four miles south of the actual city limits of Las Vegas.
With the sign so far away from the city itself, the Las Vegas City Council erected a Welcome to Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas sign just within the city limits of the City of Las Vegas, on Las Vegas Boulevard. In 2006, yet another sign, larger yet almost identical to the sign on Las Vegas Boulevard, was erected on the center meridian of Boulder Highway near Harmon Avenue.
The image of the sign is featured on the Nevada license plate that was issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the City of Las Vegas in 2005. Mayor Oscar Goodman says, "It has to be the No. 1 attraction. It's iconic. The remarkable thing is whenever you drive past it, you always see a car on the roadside, often a limo, and people getting pictures taken with it." In 2007, construction began on a parking lot so tourists can visit the sign with safety in mind. The design of the sign is in public domain.
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