Frontier sign 1967-2007 in four different colors. Blues (60s-70s), Browns (80s), Reds (90s), and Greens (00s).
Burros, Stewart Ranch, Las Vegas, Nev. – early 1900s Postcard from Wilson Drug Co , Las Vegas, in business Nov. ‘06 to Apr. '11.
Charleston Blvd, 1944 Facing east from 10th St. Huntridge theatre on the right. To the left, Southern Nevada Power former substation between 10th and 11th St, removed in the early 50s. City o...
Las Vegas, late 1940s. Aerial photo facing north; Huntridge neighborhood in the foreground. Outlines below highlight the newest communities: Biltmore addition, Vega Verde addition, Huntridge ...
Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada, 1966 Dunes hotel tower in the distance. Kona Kai motel & coffee shop, right. Kodachrome slide dated April 66.
Construction of Las Vegas Valley Water District Pipeline, 1954. Water from the Colorado River reached Las Vegas for the first time on 9/19/55. The Colorado River Compact ratified in the the 192...
Fremont Street, c. July 1961, on either side of 3rd. New sign at the Horseshoe under construction.
LAS VEGAS 1910S-1920S - Facing east over South Main & Bonneville in a series of photo-postcards each taken from the ice house . 1. Early-20s. The large building on the far left is the Clark Cou...
STATE LINE CHEVRON & BAR, C. 1960S WHISKEY PETE’S RESTAURANT, STATE LINE (PRIMM), NEVADA, 1983 Postcard & photo from Felix Lenox, Nevada Armored Transport . When U.S. Route 91 was establi...
BACKSTAGE AT THE DUNES, 1964 Dancers of Vive Les Girls, Bernard Charey (seated), Jacqueline Douguet (right), the other unknown. Photo by Harry Krieger, Esquire Mag.
Las Vegas Strip, April 1977 (1,2) Hacienda. Redd Foxx, Spice on Ice. (3,4) Tropicana fountain. It was demolished months later. (5) Free Aspirin & Tender Sympathy sign at Union 76. (6,7) Tahit...
Detonation of the nuclear device air-dropped at Nevada Test Site on March 29, 1955. Code named: Wasp Prime. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office.
Sundown Motel, Boulder Hwy – 1956 Two versions of the motel sign in the photos. (1) 1956, Nevada State Museum Las Vegas, VR-621G. (2) Undated, Postcard. The motel was built on Boulder Hwy c...
Jayne Mansfield on Fremont St, 1959 In front of White Cross Drugs, Fremont & 2nd, and in the same intersection with Fremont Hotel in the background. Photos by Bruno Bernard, aka Bernard of Holl...
Flamingo, April 1968. Las Vegas debut of Tom Jones. Slide scan by Nevada Armored Transport .
Fremont St, Summer 1961. The main facade of Horseshoe’s sign has been installed; the U-shaped horseshoe figures not yet been installed atop the display. Same time other direction. Low res ...
View from the Dunes, c. December 1984. Photo by Gunnar Kullenberg. Caesars, Imperial Palace, Holiday Casino, Sands, Castaways. Circus Circus Casino Tower West in the upper right.
Tropicana, c. 1960 Facing northwest. West Tropicana Ave does not yet exist. Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau.
TROPICANA, FEBRUARY 1976. Don Cherry, Gale Baker, Folies Bergère ‘76. Top left: Paradise Hotel (115 E Tropicana). Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau. Tropicana sold Folies Bergere in '75 to an e...
Closing marquees. Dunes in 1993 started the tradition of farewell messages on the sign, just before the started the tradition of implosion spectacles. Dunes, ‘93 by Ray Tutaj Jr. / Sands, '96...