February 2025 - Las Vegas NV
Alan Post’s Union 76 opened circa ‘57. The phrase “Free Aspirin, Tender Sympathy” appeared in their print advertising that summer, but the earliest dated visual we have of the sign is a traveler’s 8mm film from Fall 1958.
The sign was referenced in the newspaper later that year:
“A service station attendant got some of his own ‘free aspiring and tender sympathy’ last night on the Strip after he was slugged twice with a crescent wrench by two teenagers who attempted to rob him.”
– Man Slugged by Two Teenagers. Review-Journal, 12/9/58.
“A service station attendant got some of his own ‘free aspiring and tender sympathy’ last night on the Strip after he was slugged twice with a crescent wrench by two teenagers who attempted to rob him.”
– Man Slugged by Two Teenagers. Review-Journal, 12/9/58.
The S&H Green Stamps section of the sign was in place through the mid 60s when the station was owned by Wayne Nickerson. That section of the sign lost its neon in the 70s, and was used for painted lettering of later owners names: Jay G. Manning, 70’s, and Kenneth L. Lehman, 80s.
When the station closed in 2001 the sign had no neon tubing left.
When the station closed in 2001 the sign had no neon tubing left.
The sign was donated to the Neon Museum. In 2024 the Neon Museum oversaw a complete restoration of the sign. It was installed in the Medical District, in the median on W. Charleston Blvd east of Rancho Dr.
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