Will you miss the Tropicana Hotel? Picture taken Oct. 28th 2003.

The first casino on the (eventual) #LasVegas Strip was the Red Rooster - licensed April 1, 1931. It's also the 1st to lose their license..it was revoked in July, 1931 after prohibition agents busted the place for selling booze. The Mirage sits on the site now. 📸s UNLV Spec Coll

Terminal 1 opened at McCarran Airport just south of Las Vegas, NV on Mar 15, 1963. The first photo via UNLV Digital Collections shows the structure still under construction. The second photo via Vintage Las Vegas.
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The first appearance of a neon Vegas Vic was on the 'Here It Is!' sign installed in 1948 on the rooftop of 32 Fremont across the street from the Pioneer Club #LasVegas . The full body version would be installed in 1951. This version was demolished in the mid 50s. 📷s UNLV Spec Coll

VIDEO VAULT: Las Vegas' worst wind storm caused millions of dollars of damage in 1989 news3lv.com/news/local/vid…

It's February, 1978 in #LasVegas . Work continues on Michael Gaughan's Barbary Coast. Artist rendering of the completed project. The property was formally Empey's Desert Villa and (briefly) Times Square Motel. 📷 LV Sun - YESCO Rendering

Anniversary of date when spokesperson of 'Heart Attack Grill' in downtown Las Vegas died of a heart attack on February 11, 2012
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UNLV Digital Collections has sets of photos/slides showing construction of the International Hotel in Las Vegas, NV taken by Mike Gordon. The attached set is from Feb 8, 1969. tinyurl.com/2nfrevpj

Las Vegas in 1906. The Plaza Hotel Casino is right in front of the train station.

📸The Associated Press

The LasVegasNewsBureau took to the air in March 1966 to check the construction progress of Caesars Palace #LasVegas . The Dunes and country club in the background...and a whole lot of empty desert.

The first integrated hotel-casino in Las Vegas, the Moulin Rouge, opened on May 24,1955. It closed in October 1955. #BlackHistoryMonth    
📸 Loomis Dean 📸 Jay Florian Mitchell
📸 Nevada Museum 📸 UNLVSC

Walking Fremont St, downtown Las Vegas, 1965

Hotel Nevada at 1 Fremont St at DTLV circa 1912. Now the site of Golden Gate Hotel & Casino & entrance to Fremont Street Experience. The Hotel Nevada holds the distinction of having the 1st telephone in LV. Its number was fairly easy to memorize. It was 1.
📸 UNLVSC 📸 Golden Gate Casino

Marina Hotel Casino closed on November 30, 1990. In 1989, it was purchased by MGM, and most of the original structure was demolished, except for the hotel tower. The tower was then integrated into the new MGM Grand
📸 Review Journal 📸 NATI Collection

In 1988 Meredith Vieira asking Steve Wynn about his casino's ties to organized crime.

📹'West 57th', CBS

Hughes Executive Air Terminal in the late 1960s. Hughes bought the airfield on LV Blvd near Sunset Rd in 1967 from Alamo Airways owner George Crockett & turned it into airport for private planes.
📸 Frank Mitrani 📸 UNLVSC 📸 Adam Levin Collection

On the site of the former Pair-O-Dice Club and 91 Club, and after a Rotary Club preview banquet the night before, R E Griffith opened the second full resort on the Las #Vegas Strip, the 107 room Hotel Last Frontier on Oct 30, 1942. bit.ly/3mJhBLz bit.ly/3Mjfiy0

The Landmark under construction. Because of multiple delays the Landmark would not open until 1969.

up close, circa 1963📸Bill Willard/UNLV Spec Coll
1963 📸Marian Honeycutt/UNLV Spec Coll

1967, Sands was the 1st Las Vegas hotel purchased by Hughes

Joe Brown was the 1st of 6 law clerks in Clark County. During his year as a law clerk he met Bob Maheu, who served as Howard Hughes’ right-hand man, Hughes died April 5, 1976

Pat Price died in the Sands July 14, 1975