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Fremont St, Las Vegas, June 1986. Under the marquee of Sassy Sally’s. Cosmo’s Restaurant was below&a...

Fremont St, Las Vegas, June 1986. Under the marquee of Sassy Sally’s. Cosmo’s Restaurant was below the casino in a space that was once a nightclub. Photo from Gerrie Versluis.

Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1986

Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1986Views from Plaza Hotel. Photos by Blanton Owen, Nevada Arts Council, Folklife Archives. 

Where does one go for gritty, old, dank casino experience? [Split Thread]

jacmrose said: Circa has done so much for downtown and pushed other casinos to renovate/innovate Click to expand... Where does one go now for that, gritt...

Last Frontier Village and Silver Slipper, December 1958

Last Frontier Village and Silver Slipper, December 1958Neon sign points to Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Faded slide scan, VLV Collection.

View from the top of The Mint, September 1975

View from the top of The Mint, September 1975 Coin Castle, Las Vegas Club, Golden Gate, and Union Plaza. Slide scan from Thomas Hawk.

Gold Spike Sold in Downtown Las Vegas, 25% Chance Gambling Returns [UPDATED]

Downtown’s once-enjoyable Gold Spike has been sold, and by “once-enjoyable” we mean “it had gambling.” The diminutive former hotel-casino-bar, located at Las Vegas Boulevard and Og...

Fremont St, Las Vegas, c. 1966

Fremont St, Las Vegas, c. 1966Diamond Jim’s Nevada Club on the Golden Nugget block, and Las Vegas PD motorcycle units at Pioneer Club, South 1st St. “Photos taken by my parents usi...

Las Vegas Strip, December 1982

Las Vegas Strip, December 1982View from Caesars, by Bob Paluzzi, shooting with a vintage Cirkut camera. Temporary Formula One race track, lower left. Between the track and the Chev...

Las Vegas Strip, September 1973. Set of ten photos.

Las Vegas Strip, September 1973. Set of ten photos.

Rainbow Vegas, 401 S. Casino Center Blvd, Las Vegas - 1988

Rainbow Vegas, 401 S. Casino Center Blvd, Las Vegas - 1988Photo by William HannappleRainbow Vegas Hotel was built in ‘77. It was sold to the City of Las Vegas in the late 90s, and...

Fremont St & Eastern Ave, facing west – October 1970

Fremont St & Eastern Ave, facing west – October 1970Slide scan from the Gary Lenhart collection. Vegas Motel, Grayson Motel, Blue Angel, left. Par-A-Dice motel, right.

Silver Palace, Fremont & 1st, Las Vegas – March 14, 1962.

Silver Palace, Fremont & 1st, Las Vegas – March 14, 1962. Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau

This casino is boarded up — but its event center is still in business

The Silver Nugget Event Center hosted hundreds of soccer fans Wednesday for a World Cup watch party.

Gold Spike Las Vegas Has Been Sold

The Gold Spike Las Vegas has been sold to local real estate investors Huan Jeff Mai and Qing Zhong for $11.38 million. According to Clark County property records, the transaction c...

Fremont St & Casino Center, June 13, 1983

Fremont St & Casino Center, June 13, 1983Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau

Vegas Village Shopping Center, 1501 Las Vegas Blvd North, 1964. Photo near the corner of North Main…

Vegas Village Shopping Center, 1501 Las Vegas Blvd North, 1964. Photo near the corner of North Main & Foremaster, by Las Vegas News Bureau. Vegas Village was launched by a grou...

Las Vegas Strip, August 1971

Las Vegas Strip, August 1971Adjacent to the Sands was the Carousel Motel, a motel-store property and perhaps the ugliest structure on the Strip. For over 50 years it was positioned...

Fremont & 2nd, Las Vegas, 1958

Fremont & 2nd, Las Vegas, 1958Four people on the corner in front of White Cross Drugs (4 Queens block). The Mint, Boulder Club, Joe W. Brown’s Horseshoe Club.

Las Vegas Club, 1956

Inside Gaming: Downtown hotel-casino, museum offer ‘Wiseguy’ deal

Plus, the Linq Promenade has debuted its fully renovated 130-foot digital marquee, completing a top-to-bottom overhaul that brings new LED technology to one of the Strip’s most vis...

Stardust, Las Vegas Blvd & Convention Center Dr, 1961

Stardust, Las Vegas Blvd & Convention Center Dr, 1961Unknown photographer. c. early 1961. Getty Images.

Fremont Street, March 1962. Golden Nugget, Cadillac, and YESCO servicing the sign. Photos by Erich…

Fremont Street, March 1962. Golden Nugget, Cadillac, and YESCO servicing the sign. Photos by Erich Andres.

‘Fully operational’: Last store left in Primm outlet mall still open for business

Sanithrift is holding a “Summer Treasure Hunt” this weekend at the mostly deserted shopping center south of Las Vegas.

Nevada Biltmore, 600 N Main St, Las Vegas - c. 1942