AI architectural illustration; fine ornament and period traffic simplified, small promotional text omitted, main lettering and shoe retained.
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.
