Poster for Grateful Dead at Las Vegas Ice Palace, 800 E Karen Ave, Commercial Center. March 29, 1969 ..read more

Backstage at the Dunes, 1964 Dancers of Vive Les Girls, Bernard Charey (seated), Jacqueline Douguet (right), the other unknown. Photo by Harry Krieger, Esquire Mag ..read more

Las Vegas Strip, April 1977 (1,2) Hacienda. Redd Foxx, Spice on Ice. (3,4) Tropicana fountain. It was demolished months later. (5) Free Aspirin & Tender Sympathy sign at Union 76. (6,7) Tahiti Motel, and the Aladdin. (8) Approaching the Denny’s, Royal Palms Motel, and the Dunes. (9) Holiday Casino and Holiday Inn. Slide scans from Felix Lenox, Nevada Armored Transport.  ..read more

March 29, 1955 - Detonation of the nuclear device air-dropped at Nevada Test Site on March 29, 1955. Code named: Wasp Prime. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office ..read more

Sundown Motel, Boulder Hwy – 1956 Two versions of the motel sign in the photos. (1) 1956, Nevada State Museum Las Vegas, VR-621G. (2) Undated, Postcard. The motel was built on Boulder Hwy circa ‘54 at what is now 3265 Fremont St. In later years Sundown became the annex of Capri Motel. The Sundown wing was torn down in '98 except for the rear portion which is current the office of an automobile dealer ..read more

Jayne Mansfield on Fremont St, 1959 In front of White Cross Drugs, Fremont & 2nd, and in the same intersection with Fremont Hotel in the background. Photos by Bruno Bernard, aka Bernard of Hollywood, from the same set as Jayne Mansfield shopping at Market Town ..read more

Flamingo, April 1968. Las Vegas debut of Tom Jones. Slide scan by Nevada Armored Transport ..read more

Fremont St, c. summer-fall 1961. The main facade of Horseshoe’s sign has been installed; U-shaped horseshoe signs at the top have not yet been installed. Same time other direction. Low res scan from TC’s Southern Ridge ..read more

View from the Dunes, c. December 1984. Photo by Gunnar Kullenberg. Caesars, Imperial Palace, Holiday Casino, Sands, Castaways. Circus Circus Casino Tower West in the upper right ..read more

Tropicana, c. 1960 Facing northwest. West Tropicana Ave does not yet exist. Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau ..read more