A Complete Photo & Video History
of Las
Vegas Casino Culture
Art, Ads & Architecture 1900-1975
1950 - Desert Inn's Painted Desert Showroom - showgirl marketing art.
This is the mobile website version of our
'In Old Las Vegas' desktop website.
Over the coming months we'll be updating both websites to make it easier, faster and simpler to locate historical facts about Old Vegas and view videos, photos, ads & art.
'In Old Las Vegas' desktop website.
Over the coming months we'll be updating both websites to make it easier, faster and simpler to locate historical facts about Old Vegas and view videos, photos, ads & art.
You can bookmark our mobile website
to see all our new additions - as we modernize this site's layout, art & navigation.
Only a few of these new, mobile webpages are filled with content. But, the old version sits in place, still available for viewing - so just see what you might find.
New Mobile Pages will be announced
as they are completed.
Only a few of these new, mobile webpages are filled with content. But, the old version sits in place, still available for viewing - so just see what you might find.
New Mobile Pages will be announced
as they are completed.
Downtown Fremont Street 1950.
1955 Royal Nevada casino's
marketing campaign slogan:
"for Royal Entertainment"
marketing campaign slogan:
"for Royal Entertainment"
1950 Las Vegas Club casino publicity photo-composite shows the newest and highest, 120 foot tall, neon-sign pylon just installed (in 1949) as the highest in town, at the time.
Stardust hotel's 1965 remodeled front.
A one-minute long, 1966 night drive showing The Strip and Downtown Fremont Street:
Showing:
The Dunes, Hacienda, Tropicana, Aladdin, Flamingo, Capri, Sands, Desert Inn, Stardust, El Morocco, Riviera, Thunderbird Golden Nugget, Fremont, Binions and the Lucky Strike neon signs & casinos.
Viva Las Vegas
The 1964, two-minute long, Elvis'Viva Las Vegas' movie intro and song.
Showing: Aerial views of Downtown and The Strip, a neon sign montage, street views of Fremont Street, Flamingo's Tower roadsign & entrance, Tally-Ho.
Two minutes of 1962 Vegas. Amateur film, home movie of two tourist couples' night out on the town.
Showing:
Train ride into Vegas, train station, Golden Nugget & Lucky Strike in daylight, Dunes at night, Pioneer Club, Vegas Vic, The Mint, Club Bingo, Biff's Famous Food, Silver Palace, Las Vegas Club, Jackpot Arcade neon, Flamingo, Last Frontier Village, Silver Slipper shoe and roadsign, Stardust's Earth globe & roadsign, Riviera, Algiers, Thunderbird and Sahara Hotels-Casinos.
1906 Mills Company's 'Liberty Bell' was popular in saloons & cigar stores from San Francisco's Barbary Coast to Denver.
This Mid-Fifties Buckaroo model
was advertised to "glow in the dark".
Its Indian head resembled an
Academy Award Oscar.
Me , Photography and Las Vegas
I first came to as Las Vegas in 1977 then moved here in 1997. Since then, I made two websites on Old & New Vegas.
1977 Caesars Palace & Flamingo
hotel's roadsigns and lawn.
hotel's roadsigns and lawn.
Caesars Photo Copyright © 1977 & 1978-2018
by me, Erik Wunstell, your webhost.
1998
Casino owner, Steve Wynn, making the final inspection of his Bellagio Hotel the day before its Oct.1998 Grand Opening.
VEGAS VIP BIOGRAPHIES
VEGAS VIP BIOGRAPHIES
Steve Wynn Photo Copyright © 1998-2018
by me, Erik Wunstell, your webhost.
2018
My name is Erik Wunstell - a photographer, scientist, historian and the 1980 founder & current director of the Earth Ecology Foundation.
I study manmade environments.
Las Vegas is the ultimate manmade environment.
I first came to Las Vegas in 1977 then moved here in 1997. I drove a night-taxi for 9 years. During that time I started two websites about my new home city.
One historical and one contemporary
One website is called InOldLasVegas.com.
The other is a modern,
Local City Guide called WestVegas.com.
Please visit both mobile & desktop websites. WEST VEGAS
I study manmade environments.
Las Vegas is the ultimate manmade environment.
I first came to Las Vegas in 1977 then moved here in 1997. I drove a night-taxi for 9 years. During that time I started two websites about my new home city.
One historical and one contemporary
One website is called InOldLasVegas.com.
The other is a modern,
Local City Guide called WestVegas.com.
Please visit both mobile & desktop websites. WEST VEGAS
More pages will be coming soon. First, I have to think-up some skeletal structure to encapsulate all that's important & relevant:
Downtown
The Strip
"Spaces & Times
and the life therein".
Downtown
The Strip
"Spaces & Times
and the life therein".
