The Matchcover Storyteller

The Glenn Vegas Motel opened in 1952 by Theodore Glenn at 2233 S. 5th Street.  The address is now Las Vegas Boulevard and if you know Sin City, it’s not far from the Stratosphere Casino, south of the city itself at the top end of “The Strip”.

There’s not a lot of history except for several name changes  —  in 1964, it became the Vegas Holiday Motel and the famous Chapel Of the Bells opened in one of the motel rooms.   Then in 1981, it became the Fun
City Motel, the name most remember it as.  With each change, the neon sign was adapted to fit.

More change:  in 2011 one of the wings was demolished and the other was turned into the Strip Gun Club, still there today as a luxury indoor shooting range.  And finally in 2020, the rest of the motel closed, leaving “Fun City”as Chapel of The Bells, the gun club and a dispensary in an associated building. 

The neon Fun City sign is preserved at the Las Vegas Neon Museum.