Pioneer Club Las Vegas, Former casino in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, US

The Pioneer Club occupies a building dated to 1918 at 25 East Fremont Street, which housed businesses including Beckley's Mens Wear before the casino moved in. Its exterior carries the 40-foot neon cowboy Vegas Vic, erected in 1951, and the vintage Pioneer Club signs; since 1998 the former casino floor has held a souvenir store.

The Pioneer Club and Cocktail Lounge opened in April 1942 at First and Fremont Streets, moving in the late 1940s into a building dated to 1918 that last housed Beckley's Mens Wear. Called the New Pioneer Club from 1956 to 1967, it bought the Elwell Hotel behind it in 1965 and Club Bingo in 1983 to enlarge the casino. New owners in 1992 could not compete with the Fremont Street Experience and Strip megaresorts, and the casino closed in 1995.

Vegas Vic was commissioned by the Pioneer Club's owners and built by the Young Electric Sign Company; Pat Denner modeled the 40-foot figure on a 1947 Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce cowboy in blue jeans, a yellow-checked shirt and a red bandana. Erected on the facade in 1951, it greeted passers-by with "Howdy Podner" and appears in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.

The building stands at 25 East Fremont Street, at the corner of First Street, under the Fremont Street Experience canopy. Vegas Vic faces the pedestrian mall, so the exterior and the vintage Pioneer Club signs can be seen at any hour without entering. The souvenir store inside occupies the former casino floor.

Vegas Vic was commissioned by the Pioneer Club's owners from the Young Electric Sign Company, and sculptor Pat Denner modelled it on a 1947 Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce image of a cowboy in blue jeans, a yellow-checked shirt and a red bandana. The 40-foot figure went up on the facade in 1951 and appears in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.