Happy Friday #LasVegas !

Looking down on a quiet 60s Fremont Street Downtown #LasVegas . 📷 UNLV Spec Coll Culinary Collection.

Long before slot clubs, #LasVegas casinos tried anything to bait customers. In 1958 Fremont Hotel & Casino tried to lure them in with a fishing tournament.

You can thank the stars that no one in #LasVegas thought to ask Siegfried and Roy to sing in a commercial ever again. 1990.

Summer 1988 and they're working hard to complete the Mirage #LasVegas . 📷 via Vintage Las Vegas

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Here come the Norwegians #LasVegas . 🇸🇯

Time certainly flies. It's #WrestleMania40 weekend. It seems like yesterday that WrestleMania IX was held at Caesars Palace April 4, 1993. As told it was an event to r̶e̶m̶e̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ forget other than being a great informercial for Caesars and #LasVegas .

Happy birthday to #JamesGarner , born OTD 1928. Garner was a frequent #LasVegas visitor playing in the WSOP, racing in the Mint 400 and (as Rockford) solving a crime or two. Gigi & James Garner

Two brilliant comics and a Chairman in 1993. #LasVegas certainly misses them. From sitcom 'Daddy Dearest'.

The world and #LasVegas lost a comedy icon OTD 2017 with the passing of 'Mr. Warmth' Don Rickles . Clark County Nevada needs to recognize Mr. Rickles with a street named in his honor. 📸s LasVegasNewsBureau

OTD 1976 recluse billionaire Howard Hughes was en route from his penthouse in Acapulco to Methodist Hospital in Houston when he died of renal failure. He was instrumental in changing the image of #LasVegas .

OTD 1955 one of the first resorts on the #LasVegas Strip, facing new competition opening in the weeks ahead, modernized and expanded to become the New Frontier Hotel and Casino.

OTD 1957 the Tropicana Hotel opened at the corner of Bond Road and #LasVegas Blvd. 'World Famous from the day it opened'. The Tulip Fountain was actually a cooling tower for the AC system. The fountain was demolished in 1977. #FarewellTrop

George Lee is a badass who has been dealing cards at 4 Queens for 40 years. Unknown to casino guests and colleagues is Lee’s remarkable past as a pioneering Asian dancer, who originated a feature role in George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” 70 years ago as a teenage refugee from…

Happy birthday to Wayne Newton born OTD 1942. Wayne got his break at Fremont Hotel & Casino at age 15. He first headlined a Strip showroom at the Flamingo Las Vegas in 1963 at age 21. 🥳