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Silver Slipper was a Strip casino on the grounds of the Hotel Last Frontier’s western village. It began as the Golden Slipper before taking the Silver Slipper name. A rotating shoe sign above the casino turned that name into a conspicuous roadside image. The property’s history reaches from the early 1950s into 1988; surviving catalog descriptions disagree on the exact opening and closing dates. The casino and its sign now have separate histories, with the preserved slipper moved away from the former Strip premises.
Entertainment was part of the casino’s identity as well as its gaming. The Neon Museum dates the opening of Kenny Kerr’s Boylesque at the Silver Slipper’s Gaiety Theatre to May 13, 1977. After the casino closed, the production continued at other Las Vegas venues. The sign survived through preservation: the museum records its installation as public art on Las Vegas Boulevard North in 2009. That surviving object recalls the casino without marking its original address.
Read the full history ↗ Sources and context
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Description paragraphs, pho026243 / PH-00220
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Address; operation dates; cited Fuller/Herz Index p43
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Silver Slipper section; Property 1950–1988 / sign circa 1950s
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Las Vegas Signs Project, paragraph including 2009 Silver Slipper installation near McWilliams
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Kenny Kerr section, content developed with historian Dennis McBride
Exact opening and closing dates remain unresolved across the source catalogs; copy uses early 1950s and 1988.
Factual assertion and source-fragment bindings await review; source URLs and research passage maps are provisional.
The preserved sign is separate from the former casino site; no current visitor access or precise parcel is established.
