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  • Driving the Las Vegas Strip, March 1977
  • Las Vegas Strip: Forced Perspective (1979, 1987)
  • Las Vegas Strip, April 1966

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Driving the Las Vegas Strip, March 1977

Driving the Las Vegas Strip, March 1977Travelodge and Sambos, Aladdin, Caesars Palace, Desert Inn, and Stardust.

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vintagelasvegas.com /4 weeks ago

Las Vegas Strip: Forced Perspective (1979, 1987)

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Las Vegas Strip, April 1966

Las Vegas Strip, April 1966View from the Dunes: Construction at Caesars Palace, Flamingo Capri, Caravan Travelodge, Sands, Flamingo hotel with Wayne Newton in the showroom, and Des...

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Las Vegas Strip at Flamingo Rd, circa 1984

Las Vegas Strip at Flamingo Rd, circa 1984Flamingo, Barbary Coast, MGM Grand, Aladdin, Dunes. (1) Slide scan from James Leighton. (3) via Classiclasvegas.

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Paradise Road to the Las Vegas Strip, February 1972

Paradise Road to the Las Vegas Strip, February 1972Elvis headlines the Las Vegas International-Hilton “International” still on the building, “Hilton” on the sign. A set of 10 photo...

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casino.org /1 week ago

LOST VEGAS: The Old Vegas Theme Park 

Las Vegas has always been brilliant at selling fantasies. One of its earliest and most persistent was the idea that the city grew out of a dusty frontier settlement—a place of catt...

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Fremont St, Las Vegas, c. 1977

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Fremont & Main, Las Vegas, 1972

Fremont & Main, Las Vegas, 1972

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 week ago

Las Vegas Strip, September 1957

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Fremont St & Las Vegas Blvd, 1977

Fremont St & Las Vegas Blvd, 1977Night scene facing west. Slide scan from the Gary Lenhart collection.

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Caesars Palace, July 1967

Caesars Palace, July 1967Milton Berle Revue in Circus Maximus. Ritz bros, Kirby Stone, Mongo Santamaria, and Bottoms up ‘67 in Nero’s Nook. (Vintage Las Vegas Collection)

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Las Vegas Hilton, June 1973

Las Vegas Hilton, June 1973Liberace and Mike Curb Congragation; Louis Prima, Sam Butera and the Witnesses. Years earlier Goldie Hawn was a dancer in the Desert Inn lounge revue “He...

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vintagelasvegas.com /2 weeks ago

Fremont & 2nd, Las Vegas, circa 1936-‘39.

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Poolside at Union Plaza, August 29, 1972

Poolside at Union Plaza, August 29, 1972

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Las Vegas Strip, 1999. Photo by William Carr.

Las Vegas Strip, 1999. Photo by William Carr.

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vintagelasvegas.com /3 weeks ago

Gold Key Motel, Village Inn, and The Flame. Las Vegas Strip at Desert Inn Rd – circa 1972.

Gold Key Motel, Village Inn, and The Flame. Las Vegas Strip at Desert Inn Rd – circa 1972. Morris Kishner & partners developed the motel and retail space. The block became Gold...

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vintagelasvegas.com /3 weeks ago

Fremont St, Las Vegas c. October 1955

Fremont St, Las Vegas c. October 1955Lucky Strike Club, Nevada Club, Fortune Club

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Low-flying tour over Las Vegas Blvd, April 1966

Low-flying tour over Las Vegas Blvd, April 1966Tropicana, Dunes, Flamingo, Sands, Desert Inn, Stardust, Riviera, and Thunderbird. 12 photos by Arthur Schatz.

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Stardust. Las Vegas, June 1964. 35 mm Kodachrome by Rsyung

Stardust. Las Vegas, June 1964. 35 mm Kodachrome by RsyungBehind the spectacular neon sign, Stardust’s rooms were traditional low-rise motel buildings. In 1964 the hotel opened a 9...

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 day ago

Vintage Las Vegas Golf Courses

Vintage Las Vegas Golf CoursesLas Vegas Country Club (‘27-'30s). A private course, the first in the valley. It was located in the area of today’s Wynn Resort. Its exact property li...

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vintagelasvegas.com /3 weeks ago

Fremont St, Las Vegas – day to night, 1956

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Greetings from Camperland at Stardust, Las Vegas (1972)

Greetings from Camperland at Stardust, Las Vegas (1972)Stardust in 1972 was the first to opened an RV park as a part of a Las Vegas resort. 100 spaces were opened on property behin...

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Golden Nugget’s original interior, c. 1946 (‘46-'49)

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Gaslite Motel, 2025 Las Vegas Blvd S – est. 1956

Gaslite Motel, 2025 Las Vegas Blvd S – est. 1956Opened in 1956, Gaslite was at the north end of a row of motels on the east side of Las Vegas Blvd near St. Louis Ave. Around ‘71 it...

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