360 Vegas

E-534: More Than Words

Random Vegas At one time, Golden Nugget made more money than all the casinos on Fremont St combined (Vital Vegas) TwitPic of the week It’s an elegant photo taken during 360 Vegas Vacation 15 shared by @360vegasjaydubs and answering the question, what’s in a pyramid. In this case, the artium level of the property is prominently featured showcasing Play Playground, Diablos and all the attractions on property. It’s one of the pictures that I knew was a winner the moment I saw it and yet I find myse...

E-533: Kensington Chump

Random Vegas July 2nd is a popular date to open a casino, just before the 4th of July weekend crowd comes in. In Vegas history, 5 properties have opened on July 2nd. They are the Stardust which opened in 1958, International, best known as the Hilton but currently known as Westgate, opened in 1969, Plaza opened in 1971, Holiday Casino, known today as Harrah’s, opened in 1972 and Sundance, known today as the D, opened in 1980. (Vegas_Visual) TwitPic of the week She may have been a dud in reality b...

E-532: 360VV15

Random Vegas The Sarno Block was actually a large brick formed of two half-ovals which could be stacked to make a modern latticework screen. It made the resort’s night façade glow evenly, smoothing over the chaos of dark and lit rooms behind it. (The strip) TwitPic of the week Sometimes the stars align, or in this case, the sun, the moon and the High Roller. A beautiful picture shared by @lasvegaslocally found a picture that summarizes what it’s like to go to a 360 Vegas Vacation. It really is l...

E-531: High Steaks

Random Vegas June 3rd, 1976, “Tokes”, tip money given to dealers by players, is considered taxable income that must be reported on tax returns, says a US court of appeals TwitPic of the week Here is another part of Vegas I never knew, the neon signs of west Fremont St pre-Vegas Vicky and Las Vegas Club renovation. The angle captures the Las Vegas Club, Jackpot arcade, the Mint, the horseshoe and the Fremont all stacked on top on one another, visually speaking. As usually, the vivid colors of the...

E-530: Vegas

Random Vegas 60,000 pounds of shrimp are consumed in Vegas every day. That’s higher than the rest of the United States combined. TwitPic of the week The caption read “Nothing is the same” and I tried to challenge that but @Vegas_Visual is right. In this week’s winner, taking in 1991, a view from the front of the Mirage looking south and everything in this picture is different now. No more Mirage, Nob Hill to the left is now Casino Royal, next up is Harrah’s back when it had a boat motif. Beyond ...

E-529: Thundercats

Random Vegas The last scheduled train to Las Vegas was May 12th, 1997 (Vegas_Visual) TwitPic of the week Whoever took this picture, shared by @historyNevada knew exactly what they were doing. A photograph of the iconic Sands tower under construction with the Sands marquee captured in the foreground. The two icons side by side, the only thing better would have been if it was in color. Black and white normally makes everything look very classic but with Vegas and all that neon, color photos are th...

PCP - Evolution of the Strip - 360 Vintage Vegas

What constitutes a Vegas resort? We have to go to the original, universally agreed to be the first resort on the strip, the El Rancho. Small casinos, nightclubs and motels existed on highway 91 before the El Rancho opened, but it was the combination of a hotel/motel and a casino on property that made it a Vegas resort. It’s with this template that we have created the definitive order for Las Vegas resorts and their evolution on the strip.

E-528: Cracker

Random Vegas In 1985, Wet n’ Wild opened a 27 acre water park on the strip just south of Sahara. It closed in 2004 TwitPic of the week It’s the same sign that won last week with just a different perspective, shared by @Summacorp . The infamous Stardust marquee in all her glory, 188 feet tall, the tallest in the world for a time. It somehow sums up Vegas with the image. The only sign more recognizable to Vegas is the Welcome sign News Caesars Renovations Circa 2 MGM Developments...

E-527: Pee Corner

Random Vegas The MGM Grand was built in 1993 on top of the existing 714 room Marina hotel which was built in 1975 (@vegas_only) TwitPic of the week It’s a tattoo worthy sign of Las Vegas’ past up close and interrupting your line of site. @summacorp shared The Stardust shower of stars marquee, up close. Only in Vegas did Texaco photo bomb this guy. But still, that sign with her Electra Jag font. I’m not sure what is more magical, seeing the sign up close or from far away. Either way this looker i...

PCP - Sands - 360 Vintage Vegas

Patreon Exclusive Content It’s a Vegas icon, even to this day. The Sands presided over the golden age of Las Vegas, both in entertainment and in the zeitgeist. When you think of cool you think of the Rat Pack at the Sands. It’s a Vegas legend that actually only lasted a month but the legend lived on far beyond the run of shows. And yet with all her history she wasn’t able to keep up with the competition and had to be imploded to make way for the future. But no matter how successful her new incar...

E-526: Too Many Tangents

Random Vegas People in India believe if you don’t place a wager during the Diwali Holiday, you will be reincarnated as a Donkey. TwitPic of the week Unique views is always the way to our hearts when it comes to Twitpic of the Week. This time its apparently how Vegas shuts down roads for events like New Years and the Rock and Roll Marathon. But more than that, we get the magic of reflection. Since this photo was taken at night from the overpass crossing Flamingo Rd, we catch a glimpse of the prop...

E-525: Superman Carousel

Random Vegas The official temperatures in Vegas on Wednesday, March 26th was 90 degrees. It’s the 5th earliest 90-degree day in recorded history. (LasVegasLocally) TwitPic of the week @Summacorp shared a different strip for a different time in this week’s winner. North strip, today a collection of condos and properties too far removed from the rest of the strip was once densely populated. Properties like the Frontier, Stardust, Silver City, Riviera, Silverbird and Sahara all called it home. Toda...

E-524: Grindy

Random Vegas In a deck of playing cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache (VitalVegas) TwitPic of the week This was a winner the moment I saw it, shared by @_GrandPaD . The installation of the Stardust’s super pylon, the shower of stars marquee standing a world record breaking 188 feet tall. An icon on the Vegas strip. Sadly and yet hopefully, her remains lay at the Neon Museum. While it is unlike that they will ever reassemble it one can dream that one day she will sparkle...

E-523: Onwuachi

Random Vegas The 2024 F1 race drew 306,000 people, 175,000 unique visitors to Vegas. They spent an average of $2,400 per person excluding ticket costs. The event generated $45 million in Tax revenues. (@LasVegasLocally) TwitPic of the week It’s the future of Vegas casino/resorts, boutique. Mega Resorts are too expensive to build and the market is currently over saturated with them. Here, Las_When shows us Barbary Coast in the mid 90s after it underwent a short-lived paint job converting it to wh...

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E-522: Zero Interest Social Club

Random Vegas Wynn’s Le Jardin project planned for Atlantic City just before Mirage Resorts merged with MGM was referred to as a supped-up Mirage with an estimated $1.35 billion price tag TwitPic of the week I miss the days when Vegas marquee signage had to be constructed out of giant pieces of steel and crafted into works of art. There was time when marquees were as unique as the properties they represented. Back when lightbulbs told stories and readerboards told all. The International, the city...

E-521: 360 Vegas Live

Random Vegas March 19th, 1931, the state of Nevada re-legalized gambling in an attempt to recover from the great depression TwitPic of the week It’s 1988 and I’m currently in grade school while this marvelous display of Vegas existed. On the left we see the Desert Inn, all shinny after her exterior renovation. Just beyond that is the Sands and in the distance we see Caesars Palace. Which brings us across the street to see the Frontier and in front of that is the Silver Slipper. This is the view ...

E-520: Soda Stream Saga

Random Vegas There are an average of 315 weddings per day in Vegas (@vegas_only) TwitPic of the week It’s a glorious sign that is given depth and size when you see people standing next to it, shared by @Vegas_Visual . The Mint sign, one of the all-time great neon signs in Las Vegas. It runs a close second of the Dune turret marquee as those most missed from the landscape. The Mint was absorbed into Binion’s Horseshoe in 1989. A part of the sign still exists to this day, viewable from the stairca...

E-519: Hillbillies

Random Vegas In 2024, it’s reported that at least 16 people experienced a malfunction while playing a slot machine nullifying a jackpot. As a result, it’s projected that $1.3 million was lost. TwitPic of the week Something about grass in the desert just seems lush, high end. Probably because it doesn’t exist in nature so rich people will it to survive in the desert climate. Here we see it at classic Caesars Palace sporting said vegetation thanks to @Vegas_Visual . I’m surprised more chairs aren’...

E-518: Random Sign Museum

Random Vegas Before he designed Bellagio, Wynn had fully developed, different plans for the land formerly home to the Dunes. Plans were to build a boutique hotel with intimate spaces, 2 hotel towers, one with 230 suites and two 7-story towers housing 461 rooms each He even planned to leave room for two future towers to be built Wynn believe if he pulled this off, it would be the death of the mega resort Wynn’s creative side was unsatisfied and after some guidance, scrapped them and started over ...

E-517: Blue Canister

Random Vegas Despite using the motto “Est. 1952”, Atomic Liquors didn’t open until April 17th, 1954 (@summacorp) TwitPic of the week It’s one of the last super pylons in operation in Vegas and one of the best uses of neon ever. The Rio marquee is a gem that should be celebrated by all. Thankfully new ownership restored it and incorporated LED into the sign instead of replacing it with a large square TV screen as has become the norm in the Vegas skyline. This week’s winner by @Summacorp is not of...

E-516: Experimental Holes

Random Vegas While down compared to the record-shattering levels tied to last year's inaugural F1 race, monthly ADR this year saw the 2nd highest record for the month of November. (@MeltzVegas) TwitPic of the week It’s an iconic look at Caesars Palace, with the Sarno blocks lit up in teal shared by @LasVegasLocally . It’s at least 1989 because the Mirage is open. This aesthetic would be replaced with the more authentic Greco roman architecture the property has today, inspired by the design used ...

E-515: Hymen

Random Vegas Although argon gas was used as often as neon, the lighting method assumed the name “neon” to refer to the light produced by either gas. (Spectacular – A History of Las Vegas Neon) TwitPic of the week It’s the heart of the strip that simultaneously has the best view in all of Vegas available to guests of the north facing strip at Cosmopolitan, shared by @Vegas_Visual . This is a picture that often gets submitted for Twitpic of the week but often gets passed over because I see this vi...

E-514: Dunes Pool

Random Vegas Downtown Las Vegas has 6 of the world’s largest. ( Vegasexperience.com ) World’s largest slot machine in Slotzillla (also the busiest and most successful urban zipline in the world) World’s largest keno board at 100 feet long outside of the D, World’s largest pint glass at Hennessey’s Tavern at 85 feet tall World’s largest working fire hydrant at 15 foot tall on Fremont East, across from the Western World’s largest fire-breathing praying mantis at Container Park World’s largest mech...

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E-513: #FUF1H8R

Random Vegas Las Vegas is the number 1 wedding destination in the US and the 2nd in the world behind Istanbul. TwitPic of the week It’s a time whose lamentation has been well documented on this show. The evolution of Fremont St into the Fremont St Experience, shown here, in development by @Summacorp . Say what you will about the results, progress is sexy. Here we see the roads tore up as they are redeveloped into pedestrian walkways. Like getting a room with a view of the AC units, I appreciate ...

E-512: Just the Tip

Random Vegas It cost the Harris/Walz campaign $900,000 to advertise on the sphere for a week (@_GrandPaD) TwitPic of the week Black and white photography is simply beautiful and inspires thought. This week’s winner by @Vegas_Visual shows off the Dunes in all her glory including the turret marquee, the Diamond of the Dunes hotel tower and the Dome of the Sea restaurant in stunning black and white. While a simple google search would reveal what the place looked like in color it’s more fun to imagi...

E-511: Marquee Mark

Random Vegas There is a scene in the 1979 movie Melvin & Howard that shows someone driving down the strip, past Flamingo and headed south. If you look close, when they get to the MGM marquee, Universal Pictures, the production company behind the film, covered up their rival MGM’s name from their unremarkable marquee. ( @summacorp ) TwitPic of the week She isn’t the newest or the prettiest but is Circus Circus really that bad? The answer is yes, she’s always been that way even when she first ...

E-510: Circus Circus Maximus

Random Vegas The original monorail was only a joint venture between MGM Grand and Bally’s. It opened in June of 1995. In the early 2000 it expanded to become the Las Vegas Monorail ( vintagelasvegas.com ) TwitPic of the week It isn’t anything historic except that it was the first incarnation of the Caesars Palace sign, shared by @summacorp . You can tell because it only uses 3 of the 4 pillars on the sign. Future versions added more sign boards and eventually grew to encompass 6 pillars of signa...

E-509: Caesarrado

Random Vegas This week in 1974 the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast specials began airing on NBC. All (except the 1st) were taped in the Ziegfred Room at the original MGM Grand. It went on hiatus from 80-83 after the hotel fire. The last was taped in late 1984 (@_GrandpaD) TwitPic of the week It’s beyond sad to see the Dunes turret marquee in pieces, as shared by @Vegas_visual . A marquee among marquees. A game changer. Its destruction was a giant wake-up call to all who loved the city, it will conti...