Vegas myth busted: Vegas Vicky's original name was Sassi Sally
Vegas Vickie, the neon half of Vegas Vic, became the victim of a salacious rumor that she had used different Name - like strippers often do.
In fact, this is "both" myths, as Vicki "didn't" live on the roof of a strip club, as is almost universally claimed. Glitter Gulch became a strip club in 1991, but poor, innocent Vickie had absolutely nothing to do with it.
When it opened in September 1980, Glitter Gulch was a casino. Her name had always been Vickie because owner Bob Stupak imagined his casino's rooftop terrace as the female counterpart to the Vegas Vic.
Vic - installed in 1951 while still waving his arms and shouting "Howdy Podner!" from passers-by - brought more business to the Pioneer Club than Stupak thought the low-end casino deserved and publicity.
Stupak commissioned Charles Barnard of Advertising Arts in Stockton, California, to design Vickie.
In a 2017 interview with the Stockton Record, Barnard recalled the casino mogul telling him, "I want to put up a cowgirl sign." Barnard instructed him: "I want her to kick. "
Barnard originally envisioned a pin-up girl painted by George Petty. The animator's provocative "Bourgeois Girl" was a popular embellishment on the noses of World War II fighter jets.
But because it took so long to secure the rights, Barnard told the newspaper, "I just sat down and started drawing a cowgirl sitting on a big chunk of gold."
Barnard admits Vicki is not a role model for his wife Ellie, whose only comment to her husband about neon cowgirls was: "I went too far with the boobs."
Less than a year after opening, Stupak sold Glitter Gulch to Herb Pastor, founder of the neighboring Golden Goose Casino. In 1991, Pastor combined the two locations into a strip bar, which he named Girls of Glitter Gulch.
Pastor lifted Vicki up, but then she stopped kicking. In fact, the mechanism broke about six months after the sign was installed, but Stupak had no intention of letting his star attraction call in sick.
UNDERSTANDING MYTH
Confusion over the identity of the Neon Cowgirl began in 1981 when Pastor opened another new casino next to Glitter Canyon.
Sassy Sally's occupies the same space as the Silver Palace (1956-64), Carousel (1965-74), Gambler's Hall of Fame (1974-76) and Sundance West (1976-1980), but its sign is larger and more The light comes from Glitter Canyon. And there is already a female name in it. (Sassy Sally is what the pastor’s children say is their favorite nanny.)
This is why tourists often confuse Vicky with Sally.
In 2017, a press release about Vegas Vickie's ouster distorted the common misnomer into fact, leading many high-profile publications to follow suit.
A report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal said the sign was originally called "Sassy Sally, named after the casino where she rode high on Fremont Street," adding, "Later, Sally was Renamed "Vegas Vickie" reflects on her "marriage" to Neighborhood's Neon Cowboy Vegas Vick in 1994. "
Additionally, Yahoo.com, RoadsideAmerica.com and Travelandleisure.com either removed the erroneous press release or assumed that the Las Vegas newspapers knew enough information to not Publish myths about its history. your own city.
At this time, none of the articles have been corrected.
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At least everyone got the marriage part right. In 1994, Vic and Vickie were "married" in a publicity stunt to celebrate the founding of the Fremont Street Experience.
In fact, they married twice.
“I had no idea they were married,” said Jeff Victor, former president of the Fremont Experience, “so I came up with an idea that I thought was fun and original.”
Victor recalled that sometime between 2005 and 2007, he sent an official between them on a scissor lift and proclaimed her the statue and his wife. again.
In 2017, Vicki was moved from downtown by casino mogul Derek Stevens so he could demolish Glitter Gulch, Mermaid, La Bayou and Las Vegas Club, where they once planned to Built where he created his Circa Casino Resort.
Vicki has had some work done - please don't tell her we told you so! – from signage company YESCO, now located in the Circa lobby, adjacent to the cocktail lounge, is named after her.
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