From the April 22, 2015, Champaign (Ill) News
BETTY WILLIS, 91 Died April 19, 2015.
The womn who designed the famed neon sign that has welcomes millions to "Fabulous Las Vegas" since 1959 has died. Her daughter described her as "a wonderful woman" and very proud of her design of the iconic sign but she never grew fond of how "fabulous" appeared, the single-word adjective not quite as flowing a script as she had envisioned.
Her often copied (I have several items at home with the sign on it) sits in the middle of a median on the town's Las Vegas Boulevard south of the Strip.
Ms. Willis put quite a bit of thought into the sign's design, including putting the letters for "welcome:" inside seven silver dollars, both a lucky number and the currency of choice at the casinos before chips.
That is a favorite Sign of Mine.
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