D. Duane Wardle formally passed the torch of YESCO chief financial officer (CFO) to Christopher M. Record on September 30, 2015. Duane first came to YESCO in 1968 as an employee of Peat Marwick Mitchell, a public accounting firm. He spent his first summer at YESCO performing audits at the Las Vegas region office. “Tom Young Sr....
YESCO recently completed the integration of a spectacular electronic display system at the Tropicana Atlantic City Casino & Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Tropicana Atlantic City is one of the largest properties on the famed Boardwalk. YESCO’s display system fulfilled Tropicana’s objective to become the main attraction on the Boardwalk. Through collaboration with SOSH Architects...
YESCO manufactured and installed the 30" neon sign located on the corner of Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The project goal was to create a prominent display on the interstate, with the intention of standing out from the saturated billboard market. Our solution was to angle the support pipe and pole cover so as to give the effect that the display was reaching out toward the interstate, in addition to the various...
Salt Lake City offers some of the highest-rated and best-maintained public golf courses in the county. Recently, five of the eight courses in Salt Lake City Golf recognized the need to retrofit the properties with energy-efficient lighting solutions. YESCO's pros went to work and aced the job. The project consisted of retrofitting 650 interior and...
YESCO recently announced the opening of its newest franchise located in Toledo, Ohio. This is the twelfth territory opened this year. “In the coming months we are focusing our expansion efforts in Daytona Beach, Florida; Traverse City, Michigan and San Antonio, Texas,” said Josh Young, vice president of YESCO Franchising. ”The sign and lighting service...
(First published by Vegas News, July 30, 2015.) https://www.vegasnews.com/ Illuminating for the first time since the property closed on May 4, the Neon Museum officially lit the Riviera Hotel & Casino sign. The Riviera joins a small group of restored signs in the Neon Boneyard that are able to be illuminated. The sign is located just above the iconic Stardust sign. Young Electric...
Grapevine City Museum Neon Sign Restoration Saved from the scrap yard the Grapevine Flower Mart Florist sign had been awaiting restoration for many years. After watching the NBC Today Show featuring YESCO members of the Grapevine, Texas Convention and Visitors Bureau contacted Sam Powell, general manager of YESCO Dallas, and his talented team to restore...
Neon lighting may have been invented in France and popularised in Jazz-era America – but it reached its peak in brash, booming post-war Las Vegas. Now the challenge is to save Vegas neon’s colourful history (First published in N by Norwegian magazine, May 2015. Photography by Tim White) Back in 1958, the new Stardust hotel-casino’s neon sign was...
The inaugural American Red Cross Giving Day was held on June 2, 2015. The event was designed to celebrate all the good that the organization and its volunteers do every day. A total of $2.45 million was raised during the 24-hour period. The fundraiser rallied the public to support the American Red Cross mission to prevent...
