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\n By Scott Roeben<\/a>, on August 19 2025 <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

A.I. is a miracle in many ways, but it\u2019s often not great when it comes to Las Vegas, including details around the famous Silver Slipper sign.<\/p>\n

A.I. (artificial intelligence, if you\u2019ve been living under a rock) is all over the place about this classic sign (and a similar slipper sign often mistaken for the real thing), so we\u2019re here to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re called slow news days. You\u2019ll live.<\/p>\n

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This is not the Silver Slipper sign. First hint: Not silver, at all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sign from the classic Silver Slipper casino is awesome. It\u2019s a throwback to when signs were iconic, immediately recognizable, unlike today\u2019s interchangeable LED screens.<\/p>\n

First, to fluff this story up a bit, some exposition. Don\u2019t judge. Everyone\u2019s second favorite Las Vegas movie, \u201cCasino,\u201d started with 20 minutes of exposition. Everybody loves the movie so much, they don\u2019t talk about the narration overload from Sam (Robert De Niro) and Nicky (Joe Pesci), but damn.<\/p>\n

The Silver Slipper opened on September 1, 1950 and closed on November 28, 1988.<\/p>\n

See? That\u2019s how you do exposition. Short and sweet.<\/p>\n

The Silver Slipper sign was saved and ultimately restored. It\u2019s on display near the Neon Museum.<\/p>\n

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Like most things in Vegas, it\u2019s better at night. Sorry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But here\u2019s where things go sideways.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another slipper out there. A lot of people, including all-knowing A.I., believe that slipper is the Silver Slipper despite the fact, as mentioned, it\u2019s not silver.<\/p>\n

The ruby slipper, located in the Fremont East district, is a homage to the Silver Slipper\u2019s slipper.<\/p>\n

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Not the real a Silver Slipper sign, but still adorable. Now located by The Venue. pic.twitter.com\/EGRrl9TA3U<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) August 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It was installed around 2007 as part of a $5.5 million \u201cstreetscape\u201d project led by the City of Las Vegas, local property owners and the Nevada Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n

The red slipper was one of several signs installed in the area, which gives us the perfect excuse to show off our incredible photography.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Goodman was mayor of Las Vegas from 1999 to 2011. He likes martinis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project included a martini glass, showgirl and \u201cViva Vegas\u201d arrow. The signs liven up the Fremont East entertainment district, along with the boisterous music and fistfights. Sorry, \u201cplayful social interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This sign was dubbed the \u201cLucky Lady.\u201d There was a Lady Luck casino and Lucky Lady motel, neither had a hella fine sign like this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While we share these photos, we\u2019ll keep talking about the slipper.<\/p>\n

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This font was voted \u201cMost Likely to Put Somebody\u2019s Eye Out.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The slipper on Fremont East was designed by Selbert Perkins Design, an environmental graphics firm from California, and fabricated by Fluoresco Lighting & Signs of Tucson.<\/p>\n

The red slipper is a nod to the Silver Slipper, but is more stylized and sexy, rather than a faithful reproduction. Nobody wants to dry hump the original Silver Slipper sign. That\u2019s weird.<\/p>\n

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The restored Hacienda sign wasn\u2019t part of the 2007 project, we just like how our photo turned out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, why does A.I. get the real Silver Slipper and the \u201cnod\u201d mixed up? Well, because A.I. knows what it knows largely from the Internet, and the Internet gets such things wrong, a lot.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, A.I. often provides its sources of wrong, and this is one of the main culprits<\/a> it calls upon for the fake Silver Slipper information.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, A.I. can \u201clearn,\u201d so if it finds more reliable information from a site with more EAT (Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness), it relearns and can help disseminate the correct information, too.<\/p>\n

The Silver Slipper rabbit hole is a deep one, including other myths about this famed casino.<\/p>\n

The undisputed King of Las Vegas Myth-Busting is Casino.org\u2019s Corey Levitan, so read his story<\/a> about how Howard Hughes didn\u2019t buy the Silver Slipper because the sign kept him from sleeping. And he didn\u2019t buy it because he thought the slipper\u2019s toe might have a camera to spy on him.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a Vegas sign person, check out the City of Las Vegas\u2019 list of all the signs<\/a> (restored, not replicas or homages) in the Las Vegas Boulevard Improvement Project.<\/p>\n

We love us some A.I. nearly as much as vintage Las Vegas signs, despite the fact ChatGPT says we \u201cleaned heavily on asides\u201d in this story. It counted 11 asides. Rude.\u00a0 (Nobody\u2019s perfect.)<\/p>\n

Now, you know about the Silver Slipper casino sign.<\/p>\n

We should probably include \u201cSilver Slipper casino sign\u201d in the last sentence of this blog post because A.I. likes SEO and including target keywords in a story\u2019s first and last sentence can be a beneficial practice, done naturally and in moderation, and welcome to our blog A.I., just ignore all the 69 jokes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n