Help save Downtown Neighborhoods

May 27, 2009

This just in from FCLV pal Heidi Swank:

Dear Downtown Neighbors,

Assemblyman Segerblom has just written that Amendment 938 to Senate Bill 354 restores the provision that would expand the Las Vegas Boulevard Gaming district north of Sahara, as far north as St Louis and as far east as Santa Rita.

This is the same bill we defeated earlier in the session but which has come back from the dead at the last minute. (It was added as an amendment in the Assembly to an unrelated bill; the Assembly had voted on the other bill and then the vote was reopened, the amendment inserted, and then the vote closed; its a classic insider move by developers to keep our input from being felt.)

Pls contact Sen Care (tcare@sen.state.nv.us, 775-684-6503) and urge him to keep Amendment 938 of Senate Bill 354 from reaching the Senate Floor.

Its simply unfair to make such a major change to our neighborhood without any public input. Please act today.

Gregory Brown
southridgena@gmail.com
702 580 7798

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Classic Las Vegas Downtown Memories

May 27, 2009

How many of these do you remember?

As promised, there is a point to all of this.

Coasters from the Mint Hotel (gone)

The Blue Angel Motel circa 1957

The Blue Angel Motel, circa 2007

Nevada Club tourists (gone)

Ad ad for the Lady Luck, circa 1973 (sort of gone)

Golden Goose, circa 1973 (gone)

Fremont Street, 1991

The Ambassador Motel - 1952-2007 (gone)

Union Pacific Train Depot (gone), 1970

Chamber of Commerce ad, 1948

Main Street, 2008

Swim-In-Pool sign, (gone for now)

Not exactly downtown but the Skyway Drive-In (gone)

St Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Church

International House of Pancakes

Tomorrow Classic Las Vegas neon!

Thanks to Allen Sandquist (RoadsidePictures) for letting us use these images!

More Classic Las Vegas Memories

May 26, 2009

How many of these do you remember?

There's a point to this extended journey down Memory Lane, I promise. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy!

The Dunes Hotel (gone) Matchbook art

Aqueduct Building, Sands Hotel, 1991 (gone)

The Hacienda Hotel (gone) circa 1973 (notice all that desert)

Holiday Casino, circa 1970s (gone)

The Landmark, 1973 (gone)

Landmark, circa 1980s (sign is in the Neon Boneyard)

Las Vegas Strip, circa 1980s with the El Morocco (gone) and the La Concha lobby(moved) and its hotel wing (gone) in the foreground.

The Silver Slipper, circa 1970s (gone)

Stardust Hotel, circa early 1960s (gone)

Tropicana Hotel (signage gone) circa 1973

Thanks to Allen Sandquist (RoadsidePictures) for letting us use these images.

More Classic Las Vegas memories!

May 23, 2009

Aladdin Hotel with its wonderful "ice cream sundae" sign, 1966

Anderson Diary

Churchill Downs Shopping Center with the Liquor Locker and the original MGM Grand Hotel in the background.

The Convention Center Marquee hawking the wonderful Jaycee Clark County Fair (October was a wonderful month for it as the weather wasn't sizzling). The Grateful Dead are coming soon.

The Desert Inn Marquee circa 1960 featuring Phil "The South Shall Rise Again" Harris and the Crosby Brothers (Bing's sons). (Thanks to those who wrote and caught my original faux-paus)

The lost and lamented Glass Pool Inn, now a dirt lot.