Las Vegas Fremont street drive in 1988

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  • Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
  • Take a drive down Fremont street in Las Vegas in 1988 when it was still a street. I taped this in real time from the car window (edited the long traffic light stops) on January 11,1988.

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  • @VintageLasVegas
    @VintageLasVegas 9 років тому +25

    FREMONT (north side)
    0:40 El Portal Theater
    0:49 Fremont
    1:35 Binion’s Horseshoe
    2:00 The Mint
    2:09 Sassy Sallys, Glitter Gultch
    2:17 Golden Goose
    2:20 Las Vegas Club
    MAIN
    2:45 California
    OGDEN
    3:38 Lady Luck
    4:05 Gold Spike
    FREMONT (south side)
    4:51 Sundance
    4:54 Four Queens
    5:10 Golden Nugget
    5:26 Pioneer Club
    5:33 Coin Castle
    5:36 Golden Gate

  • @RXO951
    @RXO951 11 років тому +28

    when i walk down Fremont i'm amazed cars could ever fit on that street

  • @alpappalardi7044
    @alpappalardi7044 3 роки тому +5

    When you see Woolworth. You know it’s vintage 5 and 10 . Las Vegas’ better days for sure

  • @exfoliage
    @exfoliage Рік тому +1

    I never had the opportunity to experience this desert oasis 🌵. But through this video, I have vicariously lived out this dream, electronically. Though Vegas no longer looks like this, this video is definitely a time capsule and Portal into another dimension. Thank you for sharing this audio/visualization!!

  • @badbearwatch
    @badbearwatch 12 років тому +16

    SO COOL! You now have official very clear historical footage here, thank you for posting this !

  • @mast6209
    @mast6209 7 років тому +10

    awesome, that people always feel the urge to document parts of history.. even things like building that seem unimportant. but without them all that would be lost forever...

  • @mikaelpersson2273
    @mikaelpersson2273 2 роки тому +3

    WOW - Awesome, this is the Las Vegas i miss so much.

  • @neilm.956
    @neilm.956 3 роки тому +3

    My grandmother took me to Las Vegas for the first time and we stay at the Sundance Hotel and Casino on grand opening weekend in July 1980. I made my very first bet on the Craps table at Sundance. I missed their $3.99 all can you eat Prime Rib buffet dinner. Thanks for uploading the video, it brought back a lot of good memories when I saw the Sundance hotel.

  • @OfficialLILV
    @OfficialLILV 6 років тому +9

    Wow. Thanks for sharing! So fun to see it back then.

  • @stevensmith7628
    @stevensmith7628 3 роки тому +3

    Thank You for sharing. People need to see when Vegas was great.

  • @shishosaigon
    @shishosaigon 11 років тому +3

    Thank you very much for this video. I came to the USA in 1989 (from Czechoslovakia) and live short time in Las Vegas at Martin Arms Motel. Wonderful time - wonderful people.
    Viva Las Vegas.

  • @virgilshanks3365
    @virgilshanks3365 6 років тому +3

    Thank you for uploading! Brought back a lot of memories.

  • @surferdude7569
    @surferdude7569 7 років тому +5

    right across the street from Woolworth was the worlds best Chinese restaurant they only had 5 tables and it might have really small. but the food was good. wow cinemas 123 that was such a cool place to watch movies pay $1.50 and watch movies all day .used to have friend from school work there .she used to give me free popcorn and soda .i miss the old Fremont street.to use that were born there are lived in vegas before 1994 .we thought cruising fremont street was the greatest thing ever

  • @davidcastaneda2405
    @davidcastaneda2405 3 роки тому +4

    I started my first job in Vegas the union plaza of Dec 1998 then 2005 worked at the stardust for a short time then went to Rio casino at the same time working at Bally's casino as an extra on both from the union. Rio wanted to hire me but Bally's hired me first still working there 17 years. .but do to covid am on layoff...
    my home town was California west Covina. .

  • @davidinthedesert3532
    @davidinthedesert3532 5 років тому +11

    I loved the old Horseshoe. I still have my players club card.

    • @paleo704
      @paleo704 5 років тому +1

      Very cool

    • @beatler11
      @beatler11 2 роки тому +1

      Use to go there before there was no such thing as a players club cards. Ya just asked the pit boss for a dinner comp and they simply said, SURE, they signed it and the family could eat for free!

  • @tommyguns9008
    @tommyguns9008 2 роки тому +1

    I moved to Las Vegas a year before this was filmed. I got a good the last taste of old-school Vegas.

  • @mmaxwell7
    @mmaxwell7 9 років тому

    Great video. Thank you for sharing. Cool piece of history.

  • @hotvegas2498
    @hotvegas2498 Рік тому +1

    I haven’t lived here long BUT it looks like that area was better back in the 1980’s than it is today. 🤷‍♀️

  • @jordanyoung2615
    @jordanyoung2615 9 років тому +1

    This really brings ack memories,thanks for posting

  • @michaelbodell111
    @michaelbodell111 5 років тому +14

    Love the old neon signage it was better when the mob ran it it had character now it's a corporate dump hole-now

    • @paleo704
      @paleo704 5 років тому +1

      Still plenty of neon on Fremont

    • @beatler11
      @beatler11 2 роки тому +2

      Sure use to have fun in downtown back in the 80s. I can trace the decline of Vegas is when they revamped the Golden Nugget and then built the Mirage. It was all down hill from there.

    • @WONANDONESPORTS
      @WONANDONESPORTS 2 роки тому

      @@paleo704 downtown is live

    • @WONANDONESPORTS
      @WONANDONESPORTS 2 роки тому +1

      @@beatler11 downtown is liver than ever

  • @GrantSorensen
    @GrantSorensen 12 років тому +3

    Great stuff, thanks for posting!

  • @emptyspotlight
    @emptyspotlight 5 років тому +4

    Wasn't even born yet. Wish I could go back in time to see it

    • @terrytitus6945
      @terrytitus6945 2 роки тому +1

      way better than Freemont Street Experience,trust me!!!

  • @Bennywow01
    @Bennywow01 12 років тому +1

    I almost forgot what it was like back then. Thank you for the memory.

  • @GrowinupinSincity81
    @GrowinupinSincity81 12 років тому +7

    1,2,3 Cinemas. With a Robocop poster!

  • @jordanyoung2615
    @jordanyoung2615 9 років тому +18

    I remember the movie theater on Fremont,use to take the bus downtown and watch old Kung fu movies there.

    • @tomany65
      @tomany65 4 роки тому +2

      Same here. The 1 2 3 cinema.

  • @jmer3536
    @jmer3536 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this. Wish you had more of the Park hotel casino at the time. Now the Main street station

    • @cinerama62
      @cinerama62 3 роки тому

      I agree, I worked at the Park in 88-89.

  • @t-squared6406
    @t-squared6406 3 роки тому +1

    1988,I lived at the Lee Motel,Carson,8th,across from the old unemployment office,so many great food deals downtown,near Cashman Field,saw the Stars a ton,visiting team stayed at the LV Club shopped at Ranch Market sometimes near there!

  • @badbearwatch
    @badbearwatch 12 років тому +2

    Beautiful clarity to the video, FANTASTIC !

  • @jetknight7562
    @jetknight7562 2 роки тому +1

    1988 downtown Las Vegas looked pretty decent everything was up and running..2021 skidrow.. and most business gone...

  • @MrZola1234
    @MrZola1234 Рік тому

    This is right about the time I started coming to Las Vegas. I believe the train station was still behind the plaza at this point.

  • @williamthethespian
    @williamthethespian Рік тому

    Wonderful. Thanks.

  • @VegasGar
    @VegasGar 11 років тому

    Great video!

  • @gonstotwriter
    @gonstotwriter 4 роки тому +3

    My first trip there was in May '88. I remember the movie theatre (the butch lesbian manager was very polite, one of the few friendly people I met in that town). I ate a $2.99 steak dinner at the Horseshoe and this cute blonde chick gave me a coupon, which I took inside and turned in for a cheap digital watch. I ate 59-cent shrimp cocktails and 69-cent chocolate sundaes (worst sundae ever!). I stayed at Linda Manor for $325 per month. Today, LV is a very different place.

    • @realitycheck1092
      @realitycheck1092 3 роки тому

      I just ate a steak dinner in Vegas for $65 😓

  • @gregorymonroe5407
    @gregorymonroe5407 Рік тому +1

    I use to work at the Lady Luck casino,God what memories

  • @mistervacation23
    @mistervacation23 3 роки тому +3

    You should really watch some of Bror Fredik's Vegas Vlogs, he has quite the following.

  • @MrRODNEYTWO
    @MrRODNEYTWO 11 місяців тому

    I bet this person never imagined we’d be watching this 35 years from later 😂

  • @blacksultan85
    @blacksultan85 11 років тому +5

    WOOLWORTH? YOU CAN TELL THIS IS AN OLD VID!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @veerchasm1
    @veerchasm1 6 років тому +3

    0:03 “You’re Gimballs Marge!”
    Burn that canopy down, ☀️ rules

  • @richardmarquez1168
    @richardmarquez1168 2 роки тому

    I remember it well! The year I moved there and you could still drive thru Fremont St….

  • @terrytitus6945
    @terrytitus6945 2 роки тому

    What I remember mostly were all the cabs lined up,how about when my neighbor said rolls up the windows in that area,that year,a neighbor worked at Sassy Sally's,double,double jackpot,liked their snackbar,went to movies,McDonald's,$1.86 chicken dinner at Vegas Club also home to visiting teams that played the LV stars,lots of memories on Freemont and Ogden!!!

  • @chm9935
    @chm9935 Рік тому

    Never been to vegas. Looks way diiferent than today

  • @davidcastaneda2405
    @davidcastaneda2405 6 років тому +1

    exactly!! Freemont should have stayed as open road
    like a mini strip..now it looks smaller. .

  • @gastronomist
    @gastronomist 4 роки тому +3

    6:55 The Mob Museum

  • @kitjgg
    @kitjgg 4 роки тому

    amazing footage, would it be possible to use in a film i'm creating?

  • @davidcastaneda2405
    @davidcastaneda2405 6 років тому +1

    PLAZA my first job in vegas when I came from California. .now I work on the strip. .

  • @GuruSaitravelvloginpune1141
    @GuruSaitravelvloginpune1141 2 роки тому

    Nice
    AWESOME
    Very interesting
    GuruSai Travel in Pune

  • @biscaynebool6807
    @biscaynebool6807 2 роки тому

    Never been down this part in a car

  • @MiteshDamania
    @MiteshDamania 11 років тому +6

    very little has changed a compared to the strip

    • @kschreihart
      @kschreihart 6 років тому

      The Casino's themselves are very much the same inside.

  • @terrymertz1923
    @terrymertz1923 4 роки тому +1

    was Fremont street a one way to traffic?

  • @Locutus
    @Locutus 3 місяці тому

    4:30 I assume is the Walgreens? What was it called before? And when did it become Walgreens?

  • @stevengoodman7167
    @stevengoodman7167 Рік тому

    I lived at queen of hearts hotel for about 3 weeks back in Dec 1991 then went back to Texas

  • @stevengoodman7167
    @stevengoodman7167 Рік тому

    Howdy partner welcome to down town Las vegas

  • @GrowinupinSincity81
    @GrowinupinSincity81 12 років тому +3

    6:30 Park Casino? Is that where Main Street Station is now?

    • @805NAVE
      @805NAVE 6 років тому

      GrowinupinSincity81 yes.

    • @CowSaysMooMoo
      @CowSaysMooMoo 5 років тому

      Was also the Holiday International.....I have chips from there. Not to be confused with the Holiday Boardwalk on the strip....

  • @richardmarquez1168
    @richardmarquez1168 2 роки тому

    When you could still drive through Fremont St.!

  • @cbwynners
    @cbwynners 4 роки тому

    it's reminds me the old days

  • @jimmybarrett5565
    @jimmybarrett5565 2 роки тому

    Wow I Was There At That Time I Remember Long Foot Hot Dog For A Dollar Or A Mini Pizza For A Dollar On Fremont St And There Use To Be A Adult Movie Theater Near Fremont Street

  • @KingChris396
    @KingChris396 3 роки тому

    It looks 100x better then, than it does now. It’s ghetto and trashy down at Fremont street nowadays

  • @keithwarner6997
    @keithwarner6997 Рік тому

  • @beatler11
    @beatler11 2 роки тому

    I walked into CIRCA? the new modern casino in downtown the other day..............I sure miss The Las Vegas Club.

  • @Theranthrope
    @Theranthrope 11 років тому +5

    This makes me feel nostalgic, but I do remember Downtown as being a downscale dump back then.

  • @davidcastaneda2405
    @davidcastaneda2405 6 років тому +1

    Reno has the old downtown. ..hope it stays that way????

    • @tjstraw1
      @tjstraw1 4 роки тому

      I thought I was the only one that compared Reno to downtown Vegas.

  • @Theranthrope
    @Theranthrope 11 років тому

    That Woolworth was there until 94' or 95' (although, it was vacant for a while before the canopy went up).

  • @alangray9117
    @alangray9117 9 місяців тому

    Wish the corporates would have kept cheap food 😢

  • @bobbymissthe80s31
    @bobbymissthe80s31 3 роки тому

    0:03 Woolworth!

  • @badgerfishinski6857
    @badgerfishinski6857 4 роки тому

    That's when Vegas was Vegas....

  • @bindardundat454
    @bindardundat454 4 роки тому

    So much more fun today with canopy

  • @Locutus
    @Locutus 3 місяці тому

    7:00 what building was that? Almost looks like it's Trump Tower. 😂

  • @MartinSage
    @MartinSage 2 роки тому

    Lady Luck 1966 till 2006

  • @Mike-gl4wt
    @Mike-gl4wt 19 днів тому

    Time Machine Tube

  • @Bartels92
    @Bartels92 10 років тому +18

    The "Fremont Street Experience" was one of the worst things that ever happened to Las Vegas. It looked so much better back then

    • @Jurassicprince
      @Jurassicprince 6 років тому +1

      Andrew Bartels Yes! And not only that, they removed so much neon!! It looks so sad now

    • @kschreihart
      @kschreihart 6 років тому +13

      I disagree 100%, if they did not open up the Fremont Street experience almost all the downtown casinos were slated to close due to the strip expanding. The Fremont Experience saved downtown and brought it new life. I was there before they built the light show and closed the street to cars and the casinos were mainly empty on a Saturday night.

    • @paleo704
      @paleo704 6 років тому +3

      Kurt Schreihart true

    • @B.N.HMedia
      @B.N.HMedia 5 років тому +7

      Nah the fremont experience saved down town its more alive than its ever been.

    • @paleo704
      @paleo704 5 років тому +1

      Joshua Sullivan correct

  • @louistaylor2769
    @louistaylor2769 4 місяці тому

    I remember the pool Hal that was were Lady luck was at it was a small place shape like and L u had sir John's Barber shop and Larry's pool Hal the good day

  • @shaniceturner4130
    @shaniceturner4130 5 років тому

    they tore drown lady luck.

    • @davidinthedesert3532
      @davidinthedesert3532 5 років тому +1

      Lady Luck is now the Downtown Grand. But I still have my players club card from Lady Luck.

  • @alplumasr
    @alplumasr 5 років тому +1

    Too bad they can't keep the tweakers and dirty bums off Fremont St.

    • @islandbee
      @islandbee 5 років тому

      That's no different from The Strip either.

  • @123jac
    @123jac 3 роки тому

    Good old days; Vegas sucks now.