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The Internet's Largest, Colorized, Old Las Vegas Photos & Website. Over 40 Pages & 500 Photos!

Silver and Gold Coins of Nevada's Mining Days During the Gld & Silver Rush.

A Complete Photo History of Las Vegas, Nevada

The InOldLasVegas.com Contents Page provides links to over 40 webpage sections on Las Vegas History.

Stardust Casino's Mid-Fifties Showgirl Advertisement
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Mid-Fifties Stardust Hotel & Casino advertisement.

LAS VEGAS SHOW TICKETS

Gamblibg Tables - Craps, Blackjack & Slot Machines at the First Las Vegas Strip Casino. The 1941 El Rancho Vegas Hotel.
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Casino tables and slot machines inside the 1941 El Rancho - the first casino built on the Las Vegas Strip.

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WELCOME TO OLD LAS VEGAS

1958 Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign.

The History of Casino Culture - In Old Las Vegas

InOldLasVegas.com is a new-classic website which intends to show a complete visual history of the
emergence of casino culture and design and its effect on the last built city in the USA. This is a
story about All-American pioneering ideas and attitudes. Old West creators, promoters and idea makers
are what made Las Vegas the unique place it is today. So, you won't hear one word about any so called
Mob influence on the development of this one-of-a-kind city. InOldLasVegas.com will present the story
of how the Old West created the New West and how thousands of creative thinkers and
developers envisioned this city of the future and brought it into existence.

This website will examine Las Vegas' get-rich-quick roots stemming from the days of the 1848 California
Gold Rush - the silver and gold mining towns of 1860 thru 1910 Nevada - the 1869 transcontinental
railroad - the founding of Las Vegas in 1905 and its early railroadtown development - the birth and death of
Goldfield - the history of prostitution in the old and new west - the legalization of Las Vegas gaming and
quickie divorces in 1931 - the completion of Hoover Dam in 1935 - the effect of mechanical slot machines -
the pre & post war downtown casinos and dude ranches, the rise of the Las Vegas Strip in the 1940s - the
reasons why Las Vegas became the wedding, romance and glamor capital of America - the impact of burlesque
theater and showgirls - and the impact of Southern California road-architecture on 1950s & 60s casino
design - and lastly, the impact of Kirk Kerkorian and Steve Wynn's visions for Las Vegas.

New text and photos are being added daily to this website. Please return often.

Las Vegas Cowgirl - Rodeo Days.
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Downtown Las Vegas Golden nugget Casino After its Mid-1960s Remodeling'.
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InOldLasVegas.com's remembrance & celebration of the Old West, Glitter Gulch & the Early Las Vegas Strip.

View 150 Old Las Vegas Videos

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Ray Lindstrum's home-movie of Downtown Las Vegas and The Strip (in 1956) showing the Silver Slipper
New Frontier, Flamingo, Desert Inn, Sahara hotels - plus the casinos on Fremont Street. Thanks Ray!

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Las Vegas 1962 in High-Quality Color Film-Video. Shows the Union Pacific train depot (in daylight),
Golden Nugget, Lucky Strike, Pioneer Club, the Strike's Miner, The Mint and Downtown Fremont Street
(in daylight). Followed by neon nightshots of the Dunes' rooftop Sultan, Hotel Fremont, California Club,
Club Bingo, Biff's Fine Food, Binions' new 1962 facade & Horseshoe, Las Vegas Club, Jackpot Arcade,
Flamingo's Champagne Tower roadsign, Last Frontier Village, Silver Slipper's shoe & billboard, Stardust's
facade with Earth Globe and Stardust roadsign, Riviera's neon, Algier's sign, Thunderbird's sign, and ends
with views of Sahara's roadsign, neon pylon, entryway & Casbar's Theater roadsign. 3 min. 28 sec.
Video by Jeff Altman's grandfather. Thanks Jeff!

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A 5 minute drive down the 1991 Las Vegas Strip. Showing the Hacienda, Dunes, Harrah's Showboat, Sands, Stardust & Vegas World.
This video is Pre-Mandalay, Luxor, MGM, NYNY, Monte Carlo, City Center, Paris, Bellagio, Venetian, TI, Encore & Stratosphere.
See over 145 more old videos, color movies & film clips on the InOldLasVegas.com Video Page.
Thanks Hakan Dahlstrom for sharing this historic video & also to YouTube.

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IN OLD LAS VEGAS - CONTENTS

Inside this huge website you'll find every facet of Las Vegas History fully covered with facts & photos.
The Contents Page presents the links to the following historical webpages:

* PRELUDE TO LAS VEGAS

* DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS

* THE LAS VEGAS STRIP

* CASINO PUBLICITY PHOTOS

* SHOWGIRL HISTORY

* RETRO VEGAS MOTELS

* VEGASVILLE - THE THEME PARK

* VINTAGE VEGAS VIDEOS

* CASINO MOGUL BIOGRAPHIES

* THE NEON MUSEUM

* FREMONT STREET 2009

* EAST FREMONT DISTRICT

You will also find links to the following Poster & Book Stores:

* LAS VEGAS HISTORY - PRINTS & PHOTOS

* SHOWGIRL & PIN-UP POSTERS

* GAMBLING ART & POSTERS

* RETRO VEGAS MOTEL ART

* THE COMPLETE LAS VEGAS BOOKSTORE

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Your Gateway to over 500 photos and 40 Las Vegas History webpages!

The El Rancho Vegas' Featured Showgirl, Lily St. Cyr in her Cowgirl Outfit.
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In Old Las Vegas - Photo & Poster Store

This new section provides hundreds of beautiful pieces of low-priced art for the
many visitors who have requested photos, prints and posters for their homes or offices.

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Howdy Podner. Come inside and visit the Old Las Vegas Photo Store!

Framed Las Vegas Prints, Photos and Posters.

'1958 Fremont Street at Night' by Nat Farbman

Press link above to view individual photo details (sizes, framed & unframed prices, etc.) or use the
link below to view the entire Old Las Vegas Photo Store's collection of great old & new images.

PHOTOS, PRINTS & POSTERS - OLD & NEW LAS VEGAS

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'2008 View of Las Vegas Casinos & Strip at Night'

Old & New Las Vegas Photo Store

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Showgirl at Roulette Wheel.
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Sands' Casino showgirl posing at a roulette table.

1956 Downtown Vegas Silver Palace and Fortune Club Casinos.
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Mid-Fifties view of Downtown Fremont Street showing the Silver Palace and Golden Slot (later the Fortune
Club) Casinos in the northwest block between First and Main, near the Las Vegas Club.

Joe W. Brown's Horseshoe Casino.
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Gaming Guide for Joe W. Brown's Horseshoe Casino - during the years of Ben Binion's incarceration.

Golden Nugget Poster.
Downtown Las Vegas 1949. 26"x38" Print. Framing Available.

MORE GOLDEN NUGGET & DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS ART-PRINTS

Fremont and Second Street in Downtown Las Vegas. Circa 1910.
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Fremont and Second - Circa 1910. The Golden Nugget would later occupy the site of the post office (on left).

Night Photo of 1951 Old Downtown Las Vegas.
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Fremont and Second - 1950. Mid-Century 'Glitter Gulch'.

The 1946 Golden Nugget Casino.
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The Golden Nugget - on the southwest corner of Fremont and Second Street - when it first opened it 1946.

Early Color Photo of Downtown Las Vegas in 1949.
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The Golden Nugget - Circa 1950. Seen shortly after the installation of its world-famous roof-sign.

Photo of the Golden Nugget - Circa 1958.
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The same intersection of Fremont and Second, in 1957, showing the addition of new casino signs.

1950s Color Photo of Las Vegas.
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Fremont and Second showing the Nugget & the new Mint Casino.

Downtown Las Vegas 1957, Looking Westward.
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Fremont and Second, in 1957, looking westward.

Tourist Couple on Fremont Street in the Fifties.
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"Arrived in Las Vegas. Having a great time! Wish you were here. Norma and Clark".

1957 Fremont Street looking Eastward.
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1957 view of Downtown Fremont Street looking eastward at the Birdcage, Mint, Boulder & Fremont casinos (left)
with the Pioneer, California, Lucky Strike & Golden Nugget casinos (right). In 1958, The Mint bought out Birdcage.

Fifties Las Vegas Showgirl.
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1950s Las Vegas Showgirl

Meet Me In Las Vegas Movie Poster.
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1956 movie poster from 'Meet Me In Las Vegas'.

The First Las Vegas Casino-Motel Complex - The ELRandho Vegas in 1941.
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View of the first casino-motel complex built on The Las Vegas Strip. The 1941 El Rancho Vegas.

El Rancho Vegas Looking Westward.
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Westward view of The El Rancho Vegas.

The Thunderbird Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in 1949.
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1949 view of the fourth Strip casino, the Thunderbird Casino-Hotel, built in 1948.

The 1955 Dunes Casino.
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The Dunes was built in 1955, the same year that the Royal Nevada and Riviera casinos opened. The current
site of the Dunes is the Bellagio Fountains. The Bellagio Hotel sits on the former site of Dunes pool & golf course.

The 1955 Riviera Casino.
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The 1955 Riviera was the first high-rise (nine story) hotel built on The Strip.

The Stardust Casino as Seen on 1958.
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The 1958 Stardust Casino was the 13th casino built on The Las Vegas Strip.

The 1964 Stardust Casino's Remodeling.
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The 1964 Stardust remodeling included a taller roadsign, covered driveway and set Earth on a pedestal.

The Sands Casino's 1965 Hotel Tower.
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Mid-Sixties view of the 1952 Sands Casino & 1965 hotel-tower, formerly located at the current site of Venetian.

The Cabana Palace in Palo Alto, California. Built in 1962.

View of Jay Sarno's 1962 non-gaming 'Cabana Palace' motel in Palo Alto, California. This same long drive-way entry,
the fountains, lighting and motel design would later be replicated, in Las Vegas, for Sarno's 1966 'Caesars Palace'.

Circus Circus Casino and Hotel Tower.
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1970s view of Jay Sarno's 1968 Circus Circus Casino with its new hotel tower addition. The merry-go-round
and front fountains (precursor to Bellagio's) were later removed and the current clown-street-sign was added.

The Complete Photo History of Las Vegas is fully shown in the pages that follow. You can choose to
view the history of Downtown, The Strip, individual casinos, rare publicity photos and much more.

* El Rancho * Last Frontier * Flamingo * Thunderbird * Desert Inn * Silver Slipper * Sahara * Sands *
* Dunes * Royal Nevada * Riviera * Hacienda * Tropicana * Stardust * Caesars Palace * Aladdin * Circus Circus *

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