Opened 1950 · Card no. 9562
A giant lit shoe turning slowly on a pole, among the most photographed objects on the highway for thirty years. Howard Hughes could see it from his penthouse, had it stopped, and in 1968 bought the casino outright. The sign survives; the building does not.
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