LAS VEGAS THRU THE YEARS..

[Old School]

came across this site..


sure you folks will enjoy..


http://gaming.unlv.edu/Xanadu/others.html

This 1908 postcard shows one of the legends of the Wild West, Wyatt Earp, posing with Al James, the Club's owner.
When Nevada gaming was outlawed in 1910, clandestine games often continued along Block 16.

From the early days of Block 16 and the Arizona Club...

 

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Bingo has always been a popular Las Vegas tradition, though it has not always has that name. In the 1930s, it was often called tango. The game of "keno" as played then was more akin to bingo than today's keno.

The modern keno was called "race horse keno" and was based on the Chinese pakapu or white pigeon ticket lottery.

By 1948, downtown Las Vegas was a neon-lit oasis of gambling halls. The Golden Nugget's sign burned the brightest, perhaps, but three years later Vegas Vic, a waving cowboy, would tower above the Pioneer and give downtown an enduring icon.

The Eldorado would soon be bought by Benny Binion, who would rename it the Horseshoe and create one of gaming's most famous names.[/B]

 

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[vinnie]

COOL PICS :thumb:

 

[LetsMakeMoney]

The guy in the front has somr serious skin problems :shrug:

 

[hedgehog]

nice pictures when Vegas was cheap...

 

[Old School]

I urge you folks to take the time to read this report and look at all the pics contained..This is an amazing collection of the birth and growth of Las Vegas.

 

[lewehands]

Love the old pictures :00hour

 

[cisco]

Real nice.
Thanks for posting.
:clap:

 

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Opened in 1942, the El Cortez was for a time downtown Las Vegas's major resort. Though it has expanded considerably from its original 90 rooms, the casino building itself still looks much the same, making it one of the few survivors from the earliest years of modern Nevada Gaming

 

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The Golden Nugget, which former LAPD vice commander Guy McAfee opened in 1946, was a tiny gambling hall when it first opened, but later became downtown Las Vegas's biggest resort.

 

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Raising the Stakes 1946-1960
With the end of World War II, Las Vegas began to boom like never before. A host of resorts followed the El Rancho Vegas and Hotel Last Frontier along Highway 91, a road that, by 1952, had become the "Las Vegas Strip." The city would never be the same again.

While the gambling clubs of downtown appealed to gambling habitu?s, many visitors found them small and crude. With the construction of the El Rancho Vegas, south of San Francisco Street on the Los Angeles Highway (today Sahara and the Strip), the town now had a first-class resort, though it was miles south of downtown.

The El Rancho Vegas would light the way for future growth on what would become the Strip.

The El Rancho Vegas was revolutionary because, unlike downtown gambling halls, it was as close to a full-service resort as Las Vegas had ever seen.

Because of the desire to keep players near the tables, casino resorts like the El Rancho developed a range of amenities that could fulfill all of guest?s needs. This photo shows just how isolated and self-contained the early resorts were.

The Last Frontier was the first themed casino in Las Vegas. It was so thoroughly Western that, instead of a car, the resort sent a stagecoach to pick up guests from the airport.

The self-contained resorts of the Strip catered to average Americans by offering more than just gambling: they packaged an entire sun- drenched vacation for prospective guests, in which carefree days by the pool were followed by high-stakes nights at the tables.

The Desert Inn, with its 18-hole golf course and lavish accommodations, would become a leader on the new Strip. On opening night, the casino--then the state's largest-- was packed. As can be seen, casinos have certainly come a long way

 

[MadJack]

thanks for sharing, OS. i spent at least 2 hours checking that site out today. looks like the good old days for sure.

when was air conditioning invented :scared

 

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The concept of air conditioning is known to have been applied in Ancient Rome, where aqueduct water was circulated through the walls of certain houses to cool them. Similar techniques in medieval Persia involved the use of cisterns and wind towers to cool buildings during the hot season. Modern air conditioning emerged from advances in chemistry during the 19th Century, and the first large-scale electrical air conditioning was invented and used in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier.

 

[MadJack]

so i guess they had air in these old photos :shrug:

 

[MadJack]

btw, i think air conditioning is my #1 favorite invention of all time. i'm pretty sure. :SIB

 

[yyz]

I think movie theatres were the first places to use air conditioning.

 

[Morris]

Those are great pics. Thanks!!

 

[freelancc]

nice pics ..:00hour

 

[AR182]

btw, i think air conditioning is my #1 favorite invention of all time. i'm pretty sure. :SIB

it's definitely mine along with indoor toilets....