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@eatinglasvegas At first glance I thought this was the fella on the sign – who was that up there? https://t.co/YNaYHD0tzq — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Aug 1, 2024

@tsegerblom Cliff Segerblom photo? — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 30, 2024

Same view, 1994, around the time Fremont was closed to automobile traffic. Photo by Frank Romeo. https://t.co/uF39Mhe4L3 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 29, 2024

Fremont & Main, July 1974 https://t.co/pADac6i569 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 29, 2024

Clarification on the caption: Wynn was about 35 at this point, and he had been the youngest casino president at age 31. Ted and Jack Binion were both licensed for small % of the Horseshoe in the 1960s at ages 23 and 21. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 26, 2024

Benny Binion had not held a gaming license for 26 years at this point. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 26, 2024

@VitalVegas Why didn't Bally's do this decades ago? — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 26, 2024

Downtown Las Vegas casino operators, 1977. Wynn was the youngest at 31. Epstein, still at it. https://t.co/wMTkuMmjIF — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 25, 2024

Fremont St, 1965 https://t.co/SUlX1Yu1bp — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 25, 2024

July 25, 1969. Circus Circus, Thunderbird, International, Las Vegas Country Club. The land of the upper strip to Huntridge was acquired in the 20s by Leigh SJ Hunt, one of the first to envision Las Vegas as a resort town. The mob never even knew his name. https://t.co/seRKEJJG69 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 24, 2024

@LasVegasLocally Cool video, but when I see more than 75% of Vegas Vic’s neon is working, I’m saying ‘wow, how did they do this?’ https://t.co/nlNSJEhpJQ — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 24, 2024

@OyVegas @CityCastVegas @tsegerblom Good episode. What an irony it would be for the county to "annex" the Las Vegas name, 78 years after the City failed to annex the Strip. https://t.co/r79ZtNeKXO — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 23, 2024

@DerekEvans20 @Darthvegas069 'East' of Fremont Street Experience. The ending of FSE is like an invisible wall thru which most tourists will not pass. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 22, 2024

First place they fly into 506 Fremont was once Dapper Dan's, and has gone through a stunning number of lows & highs. Going strong now as @parkonfremont. https://t.co/UVdlGtGEDI — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 22, 2024

@vegas_visual Ask someone in 1924, could they have guessed this? (Same place) https://t.co/l10DmNYleh — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 22, 2024

When the pass through Commonwealth bar you can see the same rafters used when it was City Laundry & Dry Cleaners in the 1940s-1960s. https://t.co/cGEY3R6FO8 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 22, 2024

@Starkian7789 This is exactly what they have done through downtown on Las Vegas Blvd. https://t.co/nQXaKARW0C https://t.co/Al9kFf28Ur — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 22, 2024

Same block in 1954. Penney's, Sears, and National $ Store are long gone but each of those buildings are still in use. https://t.co/zWYpzl7rD9 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 22, 2024

Fremont East. Epic one-take drone flight thru the bars. https://t.co/V9Aa4EtVLj — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 22, 2024

@vegas_visual @CircusVegas @LasVegasLocally @VitalVegas Now imagine a hundred clowns repeating that in monotone all at once, before a night of murder and mayhem. https://t.co/FkYQVT8cYu — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 19, 2024

@JohnBar69234406 Good detail, I hadn’t noticed. I wish we had closeup photos showing the demo of the old suite & construction of the sky villas. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 19, 2024

The tallest freestanding sign in Las Vegas history was wrecked by high winds July 19, 1994 https://t.co/0PEX2FBggX — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 19, 2024

@boodad12 Skeptical of the mob stuff, but we can say for sure that this other tower designed by the same architect Martin Stern Jr Associates, survived a bombing. https://t.co/NVnUMsz2kC — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 18, 2024

Good video interview on the page here answering a few questions about the Neon Museum’s move to the Arts District. https://t.co/FpOwd7KCtx — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 18, 2024

Bob Newhart at the Sands, July 1968 https://t.co/11FsoYUlXG — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 18, 2024

@eatinglasvegas First name I thought of when I heard Peter Luger was opening in Las Vegas. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 17, 2024

Typo in the first post – Lower *left Still learning my left & right, will figure them out asap. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 16, 2024

Las Vegas Strip, 1982. Where the Mirage volcano has stood for the last 34 years, there was once the last private home on the Strip. The Grace Hayes residence, lower right behind the Chevron station. https://t.co/ovKeTf7T0e — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 16, 2024

@HistoryNevada Jorgensen was rescheduled however and did the show in Nov. 1953. A mostly-positive column about the show in the Review Journal commented that Jorgensen was “either an opportunist of supreme magnitude or an individual of indescribable courage.” https://t.co/Yqj7fHLRIY — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 16, 2024

Sands, '66 / '67 https://t.co/MUIVHUsQWk — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 15, 2024

@JesusLuvVegas69 315 Fremont, before the hotel was there. Fitzgerland's (The D) soon expanded and brought McDonald's into the hotel. https://t.co/ON6adVXCY7 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 15, 2024

Fremont Street, 7/15/1994. Photo by Michael Kleid. https://t.co/KwJOxxB3CN — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 15, 2024

Las Vegas Strip, 1994. Siegfried & Roy at The Mirage; empty lot where the Dunes stood til ’93. Photo by William Carr. https://t.co/uybtErgVsD — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 14, 2024

Brian Perceval, Normandie Motel, 708 Las Vegas Blvd. He managed the motel in the 80s until his conviction for robbing Nevada National Bank two blocks away. He managed the motel again when he got out of prison. https://t.co/g3p2cntKh3 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 7, 2024

Las Vegas Strip, July 1957 https://t.co/STE0I8GGe9 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 6, 2024

On the Strip, July 1969. We're in front of the Sands facing north. Coppertone vs. Tanya. https://t.co/GVvKLJnoGx — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 5, 2024

@HistoryNevada Then / Now https://t.co/i6IGucTgih — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 5, 2024

76/24 https://t.co/QaXQMTSmF6 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 4, 2024

A flash flood wrecked Caesars Palace parking lot on July 3, 1975. Here's 8mm film of the aftermath. https://t.co/9DGVPMHBwG — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 3, 2024

@miami_poker @vegas_visual Personally I have no go-to book, but Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture (1993) by Alan Hess is still a favorite, probably the best one about the Strip's urban development up to the 90s. The Strip (2017) by Stefan Al is a worthy update. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 3, 2024

@vegas_visual @CaesarsPalace @reviewjournal Last private residence on the Strip, Grace Hayes’ house, far right. Her club Red Rooster was there, and she lived out back when she leased the front property to a gas station. Sold the lot for $2M, got a “suite for life” at Golden Nugget, but died in 88. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 3, 2024

@ClarenceBeeks The natural outcome of urban sprawl, subsidized driving, and decades of free parking. — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 2, 2024

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Time lapse film showing the construction of Landmark Hotel & Casino, opened on July 1, 1969 https://t.co/YUq8FBCVL1 — Vintage Las Vegas (@summacorp) Jul 1, 2024