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As a Las Vegas local, this was really interesting. As you say, local pop history is usually told around the Boulder Dam and the mob, with the individual casino lineages taking up a lot of space. The railroad doesn't come up much, and this is the first i had heard of the McWilliams city attempt. That area is not technically segregated anymore, but it is still desperately poor. You have a new subscriber.
Sometimes I lose track of what 'year' we're in in the story telling. It would be great to have markers on the video that include the year/time period or something on the screen.
My missus has been trying to convince me to have kids. “You just rejoiced upon learning there’s a new map video online. I think you’re ready to be a Dad”, she said.
Yeah dude its time . Good luck its the greatest adventure you will ever have. The best unsolicited advice I can give you let them be a kid for as long as they can and be don't get frustrated at silly kid things it'll be the coolest experience of your life
“Vegas has a very definitive character. But at the same time - what make Vegas what it is, is its desire to be somewhere else” This is absolute bars, Daniel! You should be very proud of coming up with this line! Oh, and yet another great video. Thank you!
I grew up in St. George, UT, so this one really struck a chord with me. We went to Las Vegas almost once a week, sometimes for one hour, before hopping back into my car to drive the two hours back to St. George, such was our boredom in SG, haha. If we had to fly anywhere, we flew out of [McCarren] because LV was much closer than SLC. We'd go to concerts and events all the time, so it sort of became our other hometown in a sense. I saw Sublime at the Huntridge Theater in 1995, the final Las Vegas Grateful Dead shows at Sam Boyd Stadium, a bunch of Phish shows, and a shit-ton of punk rock gigs. I live in SLC now, which I love, but I miss rock climbing in Snow Canyon, hiking in Zion, and taking ridiculous trips to Vegas on a whim. Luckily, I still have several very dear friends who live down there (So many memories are flooding back!) Cheers.
If you ever want to do a video on the use of highways in the 20th century Hartford, Connecticut would be a great example. Hartford might be the city that was the most negatively affected by highway infrastructure. I-84 cuts right through the middle of the city and was used to segregate the majority black north from downtown. I-91 cuts off the city from the river. Both intersect downtown eating up precious land and overall kinda killing the city. Hartford is a pretty small city so it might not be the most popular video BUT if you ever wanted to address that topic I think it’s the perfect city to do so.
The father of a really good friend of mine worked on Hoover Dam and she was born in Vegas. She said she remembers little of it but her parents told her stories of the camps and Las Vegas. Later her father was sent to Hawaii after Pearl Harbor to help recover ships and build facilities.
Absolutely first rate video. This is such a well researched and excellent presentation- filled with facts and anecdotes that inform and entertain. Not 1 single minute is wasted, no padding out with recaps of earlier sections or previews of what's to come later which has become the scourge of so many "documentaries we now see. This is intelligent and highly effective communication. I look forward to catching up with the rest of this channel's content! Thanks for taking time to share this.
It is so great to wake up in the morning and see this video on LasVegas. Who knew that you were working on this video when I reached out to you and said “you should do a video about LasVegas!” Excellent video Mike Green and Claytee White are amazing historians.
Downtown has always been the Freemont Street area. I used to ditch school and pay 10cents to take the bus "downtown" (circa 1972). We had no intention of going to The Strip. Although we did venture down to Circus Circus on occasion.
When out of towners call the Strip “downtown” I always (very politely) correct them! You’re older than me but nothing beat the old Adventure dome and wetnwild!
As a history-loving Las Vegas native, I've always been curious about the story of my hometown. It was always strange to me that Las Vegas is where it is. Thank you so much for your sharing this video and for your hard work in researching for it!!
Nevada only gets about 4% of the allocation, and most (/all) of the water sent down the drain in Southern Nevada (Southern Nevada Water Authority jurisdiction) is treated and put back into Lake Mead which doesn't count against Nevada's draw.
Nevada gets the smallest share among the 7 states that share the river at 1.8%. its safe to say the existence and growth of las Vegas has little impact comparatively.
Las Vegas has grown rapidly from a small desert town to a global entertainment hub. The video might explore how this transformation has shaped the city's infrastructure. For example, the development of the Las Vegas Strip, the creation of massive resorts, and the way neighborhoods and business districts have spread over time. Understanding the history of this urban growth helps explain the unique way the city is organized, with contrasts between the entertainment district and residential or industrial zones.
Something abt the specific type of nerd I am was MADE for these videos. Like I get to stare at a map (which I already do) but this time I’m learning everything about the place. Amazing
“…they were essentially all male and almost all white.” I think the word you’re looking for is ‘Anglo’ not white since according to the US govt, Latino Americans are of every race and Latino is an ethnicity not a race.
I think this is your best laid out video yet. Probably because of how shallow (in terms of time) the history of Las Vegas is compared to, say, Tokyo. There was no unanswered questions in this one, while I had a lot in all your previous videos. Great work, Daniel! 👏🏻
In my childhood in the 1950s we had to specify whether we meant Las Vegas in Nevada or Las Vegas in New Mexico. Also, I seem to recall that people wanting divorces were more likely to go to Reno. We drove down Fremont Street when we were moving back to California in 1961 and I remember all of the neon lights. We did not stay on the Strip but in a regular motel; friends of my parents who were stationed at Nellis told my parents that the resorts would have been cheaper. But my memory can be faulty.
Great video!! The dam was originally named the Hoover Dam in the 1931 legislation that funded it. FDR was president at the time of dedication and started calling it Boulder Dam because he did not want the credit to go to Hoover. Then in 1946, Congress passed another bill officially naming it Hoover Dam once again. Hoover had lobbied heavily for flood control on the Mississippi River after the great flood of 1927. He was instrumental in setting up food & shelters for the 800,000 people that were left homeless - with flood waters not receding for over 200 days. Western representatives blocked the funding for the Mississippi plans until it also included money for Hoover Dam - in order to irrigate and provide water for expansion. Also, having grown up in a railroad town, the expression 'wrong side of the tracks' refers to the prevailing downwind side of tracks in the area. I would think Vegas has prevailing winds out of the west, making the east side of the tracks less desirable. The reason is that the exhausted coal dust, grade dust, and noise from the railroad operations blow in that direction. It would soil laundry on clothes lines and coat everything in a black dust. Thus, property values were lower on that side.
Whoa... Geography Now's latest video was about LA having a weird map and even mentioned LV as another example, either this is a weird coincidence or you guys conspired LOL
Do Chicago next! You can talk about the great fire and how that created the map, and then in the 19th century how trains and suburbanization changed it then how the interstates broke it apart.
Having lived in Las Vegas and Phoenix, Phoenix to me seemed even less logical that a major city would end up there. Until the Central AZ project, it had less water than Vegas. AZ was a younger state where NV had tons of mining going back to the Civil War. There were no major railway needs. Hoover dam gave Vegas all the electricity it needed. Phoenix was primarily agricultural. Its actually hotter and drier in Phoenix than Vegas. Phoenix wasn't even the original capital of AZ. Yet now its one of the largest cities in the USA. And all that is from water since the 60's.
Please do this for the Delhi NCR cities too. Ghaziabad, Noida, Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Greater Noida. I understand you live in the US and it would be difficult for you to travel to India, but the winter is the best time to visit India, as you won't like India during the summers and monsoon, although if you are from Salt Lake city then 40-45 Celsius won't affect you much. So please plan a trip to Delhi NCR.
Awesome video. Thanks for giving your viewers the chance to nerd out on history, geography and maps all in one insightful video. Now the question is where will you be going to for your next video. :)😊
Love these videos. You describe the cities and the geography in a very good fashion. Bro please do Phoenix i know it’s probably a very easy episode but please show Arizona some love lol
19:37 those craters are from underground tests, which ran from the 1960s to the early 1990s. Above ground tests, which the mushroom clouds are created by, stopped in the 1960s with the limited test ban treaty. Anyways, really cool video, I just had to share.
Really love your videos. Please do Atlanta next 🙏🏼 I’m dying to understand that city through your lens. I live in bk and I thought you gave such an insightful take on its history
Another great example of an American phenomenon that could only have happened due to disparate yet interdependent factors that would not have happened had it been left to bureaucrats, town planners and the modern idea that only government can plan.
Idk why but all that suburban sprawl growth looks depressing. Like “sure I’d love to live 15+min away from everything interesting plus deal with the extra commute/traffic”
Also most of Las Vegas isn't the city of Las Vegas... some of the largest unincorporated communities in the US are here -- Enterprise, Spring Valley, Sunrise Manor and the aforementioned Paradise. (Not including Henderson and North Las Vegas since those are incorporated cities with their own government.)
The funny part is for people not from Las Vegas they think Las Vegas is the South Strip, Mega Casinos, and LV Sign across from Reid Airport. But that’s not Las Vegas. They are in Paradise, LV - an incorporated city in Clark County outside of Las Vegas. Las Vegas is North of Sahara Ave. past the Strat. Double bonus trivia. In Clark County in Las Vegas, full nude strip clubs are not allowed if they serve alcohol. There’s only one or two gentlemen clubs that have been grandfathered and mostly for locals with B level talent if you catch my drift. Bonus to prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas nor Clark County . The nearest county where that would be NYE
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Once again I want to reiterate how specifically your videos scratch a perfect itch for me, keep em coming
As a Las Vegas local, this was really interesting. As you say, local pop history is usually told around the Boulder Dam and the mob, with the individual casino lineages taking up a lot of space. The railroad doesn't come up much, and this is the first i had heard of the McWilliams city attempt. That area is not technically segregated anymore, but it is still desperately poor. You have a new subscriber.
Sometimes I lose track of what 'year' we're in in the story telling. It would be great to have markers on the video that include the year/time period or something on the screen.
Same, when he brings up the Mormons coming and only staying for a few years, it would be really cool to see exactly what years those were
My missus has been trying to convince me to have kids. “You just rejoiced upon learning there’s a new map video online. I think you’re ready to be a Dad”, she said.
Bro just give her a kid already
Yeah dude its time . Good luck its the greatest adventure you will ever have. The best unsolicited advice I can give you let them be a kid for as long as they can and be don't get frustrated at silly kid things it'll be the coolest experience of your life
I’m a dad and I’m just as excited as you are for this video. Join us.
I sort of knew the story of The Strip part of Vegas but you just explained SOOOOO MUCH MORE!!! Instant new subscriber here!!
bro i love these map explained videos. never stop pls!
“Vegas has a very definitive character. But at the same time - what make Vegas what it is, is its desire to be somewhere else”
This is absolute bars, Daniel! You should be very proud of coming up with this line!
Oh, and yet another great video. Thank you!
I grew up in St. George, UT, so this one really struck a chord with me. We went to Las Vegas almost once a week, sometimes for one hour, before hopping back into my car to drive the two hours back to St. George, such was our boredom in SG, haha. If we had to fly anywhere, we flew out of [McCarren] because LV was much closer than SLC. We'd go to concerts and events all the time, so it sort of became our other hometown in a sense.
I saw Sublime at the Huntridge Theater in 1995, the final Las Vegas Grateful Dead shows at Sam Boyd Stadium, a bunch of Phish shows, and a shit-ton of punk rock gigs.
I live in SLC now, which I love, but I miss rock climbing in Snow Canyon, hiking in Zion, and taking ridiculous trips to Vegas on a whim. Luckily, I still have several very dear friends who live down there
(So many memories are flooding back!)
Cheers.
Another St. George native with similar Vegas memories. Living in Lehi now, can’t wait to move back to St. George in a couple years.
I love this channel. I'm never not completely enthralled by your story telling.
Excellent history lesson. Vegas is a really unique place....and it is true. Carrier made it all possible
If you ever want to do a video on the use of highways in the 20th century Hartford, Connecticut would be a great example. Hartford might be the city that was the most negatively affected by highway infrastructure. I-84 cuts right through the middle of the city and was used to segregate the majority black north from downtown. I-91 cuts off the city from the river. Both intersect downtown eating up precious land and overall kinda killing the city.
Hartford is a pretty small city so it might not be the most popular video BUT if you ever wanted to address that topic I think it’s the perfect city to do so.
Can you do a video about Houston’s map? Your videos are always teaching me something new.
I second this! Would love to hear about Houston or Atlanta.
When I tell people during rideshare or tours they aren’t actually in Vegas and in the Town of Paradise everyone gets confused or surprised.
The father of a really good friend of mine worked on Hoover Dam and she was born in Vegas. She said she remembers little of it but her parents told her stories of the camps and Las Vegas. Later her father was sent to Hawaii after Pearl Harbor to help recover ships and build facilities.
Absolutely first rate video. This is such a well researched and excellent presentation- filled with facts and anecdotes that inform and entertain. Not 1 single minute is wasted, no padding out with recaps of earlier sections or previews of what's to come later which has become the scourge of so many "documentaries we now see. This is intelligent and highly effective communication. I look forward to catching up with the rest of this channel's content!
Thanks for taking time to share this.
Babe wake up.. new map explained video just dropped
It is so great to wake up in the morning and see this video on LasVegas. Who knew that you were working on this video when I reached out to you and said “you should do a video about LasVegas!” Excellent video Mike Green and Claytee White are amazing historians.
DANIEL STEINER JUST DROPPED
Downtown has always been the Freemont Street area. I used to ditch school and pay 10cents to take the bus "downtown" (circa 1972). We had no intention of going to The Strip. Although we did venture down to Circus Circus on occasion.
When out of towners call the Strip “downtown” I always (very politely) correct them! You’re older than me but nothing beat the old Adventure dome and wetnwild!
Excellent video! Love my hometown!
Just moved to Las Vegas and this was a wonderful documentary to learn about the city!
It's incredible how much you pack in to a mere 23 minutes! Fascinating, as always!!
I remember taking the Hoover Dam tour in the 80's and Lake Mead was FULL to the top.......
Great watch.......
When people ask me what kind of content I’m into, I now know what to tell them:
Daniel Steiner. Exactly him. In exactly the way he does it.
As a Local, I’ve been waiting for this video since the day I stumbled upon your account. Marvelous.
I love these videos man. You’re really killing it. Keep up the good work.
I’m delighted to have recently found and subscribed to your channel. Hope you continue to grow.
Can't get enough of these videos. It's super interesting seeing how cities evolved over time to be what they are today.
As a history-loving Las Vegas native, I've always been curious about the story of my hometown. It was always strange to me that Las Vegas is where it is. Thank you so much for your sharing this video and for your hard work in researching for it!!
You can see Lake Mead disappearing in lock step with the growth of the city.
Actually a lot of the water goes to California.
That's not the fault of Las Vegas 😂
It takes a village (aka CA and supporting desert communities).
Nevada only gets about 4% of the allocation, and most (/all) of the water sent down the drain in Southern Nevada (Southern Nevada Water Authority jurisdiction) is treated and put back into Lake Mead which doesn't count against Nevada's draw.
Nevada gets the smallest share among the 7 states that share the river at 1.8%. its safe to say the existence and growth of las Vegas has little impact comparatively.
Las Vegas has grown rapidly from a small desert town to a global entertainment hub. The video might explore how this transformation has shaped the city's infrastructure. For example, the development of the Las Vegas Strip, the creation of massive resorts, and the way neighborhoods and business districts have spread over time. Understanding the history of this urban growth helps explain the unique way the city is organized, with contrasts between the entertainment district and residential or industrial zones.
Something abt the specific type of nerd I am was MADE for these videos. Like I get to stare at a map (which I already do) but this time I’m learning everything about the place. Amazing
This was an incredible video! I'm always amazed with how much I learn from this series. Really appreciate the work and research you put into this.
“…they were essentially all male and almost all white.” I think the word you’re looking for is ‘Anglo’ not white since according to the US govt, Latino Americans are of every race and Latino is an ethnicity not a race.
I think this is your best laid out video yet. Probably because of how shallow (in terms of time) the history of Las Vegas is compared to, say, Tokyo. There was no unanswered questions in this one, while I had a lot in all your previous videos. Great work, Daniel! 👏🏻
In my childhood in the 1950s we had to specify whether we meant Las Vegas in Nevada or Las Vegas in New Mexico. Also, I seem to recall that people wanting divorces were more likely to go to Reno. We drove down Fremont Street when we were moving back to California in 1961 and I remember all of the neon lights. We did not stay on the Strip but in a regular motel; friends of my parents who were stationed at Nellis told my parents that the resorts would have been cheaper. But my memory can be faulty.
yayyyy Daniel uploaded a new video
Thanks for a new great video Daniel! I really love your hard work
my new favorite youtube map guy
Fantastic as always, Daniel!
I’ve been to Vegas so many times but never knew these fascinating details! Boulder City and A-bomb craters!
Great video!! The dam was originally named the Hoover Dam in the 1931 legislation that funded it. FDR was president at the time of dedication and started calling it Boulder Dam because he did not want the credit to go to Hoover. Then in 1946, Congress passed another bill officially naming it Hoover Dam once again. Hoover had lobbied heavily for flood control on the Mississippi River after the great flood of 1927. He was instrumental in setting up food & shelters for the 800,000 people that were left homeless - with flood waters not receding for over 200 days. Western representatives blocked the funding for the Mississippi plans until it also included money for Hoover Dam - in order to irrigate and provide water for expansion.
Also, having grown up in a railroad town, the expression 'wrong side of the tracks' refers to the prevailing downwind side of tracks in the area. I would think Vegas has prevailing winds out of the west, making the east side of the tracks less desirable. The reason is that the exhausted coal dust, grade dust, and noise from the railroad operations blow in that direction. It would soil laundry on clothes lines and coat everything in a black dust. Thus, property values were lower on that side.
I laughed so much that you had the ability to make a video about something that most people know about but thank you for sharing it
It seems that JT McWilliams original town is now a very poor part of LV. A lot of homeless or very poor people and even junkies, sadly :/
This might be the best one yet. Not a Vegas fan but it was super interesting to learn how it all started. Hope you do one of Houston soon!
Always love your videos! Thank you for the high quality informative content!!
living Here , i Appreciate Vegas History , I Learned a Lot in This ! Great Job !
I LOVE how much I learn when I watch every single one of your videos ❤
Whoa... Geography Now's latest video was about LA having a weird map and even mentioned LV as another example, either this is a weird coincidence or you guys conspired LOL
I just now had the same experience
I literally just came from that video!
yes, a fire "broke out". Of course we can't PROVE it was arson, but it just seems awfully convenient, don't you think?
Jewish lightning they call it
YESSSSSSS ALL MY ASKING CAME THROUGH!!!!! Love it! Thanks!
- a Las Vegan
Perfect timing when I’m about to go for a month study trip at UNLV from the UK
Do Chicago next! You can talk about the great fire and how that created the map, and then in the 19th century how trains and suburbanization changed it then how the interstates broke it apart.
Having lived in Las Vegas and Phoenix, Phoenix to me seemed even less logical that a major city would end up there. Until the Central AZ project, it had less water than Vegas. AZ was a younger state where NV had tons of mining going back to the Civil War. There were no major railway needs. Hoover dam gave Vegas all the electricity it needed. Phoenix was primarily agricultural. Its actually hotter and drier in Phoenix than Vegas. Phoenix wasn't even the original capital of AZ. Yet now its one of the largest cities in the USA. And all that is from water since the 60's.
Awesome video as always, I really would love a video about Istanbul, I feel like there's a lot of material that could be discussed.
I enjoy your content thank you
I love the history you learn with these videos! Can you do Tokyo or Seoul next?
He did Tokyo a while back
Please do this for the Delhi NCR cities too. Ghaziabad, Noida, Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Greater Noida. I understand you live in the US and it would be difficult for you to travel to India, but the winter is the best time to visit India, as you won't like India during the summers and monsoon, although if you are from Salt Lake city then 40-45 Celsius won't affect you much. So please plan a trip to Delhi NCR.
Awesome video. Thanks for giving your viewers the chance to nerd out on history, geography and maps all in one insightful video. Now the question is where will you be going to for your next video. :)😊
Great video as always! I still want a St. Louis video, but I won't nitpick. I'll probably enjoy it no matter what city it is
Love these videos. You describe the cities and the geography in a very good fashion. Bro please do Phoenix i know it’s probably a very easy episode but please show Arizona some love lol
22:35 Bottom right, the lake shrinks so much that’s as noticeable as the grew of Vegas.
Fun fact, up in the spring mountains theres an overlook where you can see the nuclear craters on the horizon! Very cool
Lol I was binge watching this channel the other day and I was really hoping you would get to Vegas
Dope video, hope we can see LA and San Francisco soon!
Fantastic as always… may I suggest you do the Northwest Ordinance and the county maps of the midwest?
this is a great video! I hope one day you can do one on San Diego and it’s Old town versus “New” town!
19:37 those craters are from underground tests, which ran from the 1960s to the early 1990s. Above ground tests, which the mushroom clouds are created by, stopped in the 1960s with the limited test ban treaty.
Anyways, really cool video, I just had to share.
Really love your videos. Please do Atlanta next 🙏🏼 I’m dying to understand that city through your lens. I live in bk and I thought you gave such an insightful take on its history
I suspected you lived in Utah. Provo resident here. Love your channel!
This is so fascinating
Great video!
I love Johnny Harris, I mean Daniel Steiner ❤
Daniel dropped, day is better
amazing work
Fantastic as always! Love your work! Any chance you could come up the coast and look into Vancouver BC?
Another great example of an American phenomenon that could only have happened due to disparate yet interdependent factors that would not have happened had it been left to bureaucrats, town planners and the modern idea that only government can plan.
Idk why but all that suburban sprawl growth looks depressing. Like “sure I’d love to live 15+min away from everything interesting plus deal with the extra commute/traffic”
please do LA next
Also most of Las Vegas isn't the city of Las Vegas... some of the largest unincorporated communities in the US are here -- Enterprise, Spring Valley, Sunrise Manor and the aforementioned Paradise. (Not including Henderson and North Las Vegas since those are incorporated cities with their own government.)
I bet Santa Monica would be a fascinating city history to check out too!!
Never clicked faster on a video
I gotta admit, at one point I was sure you were going to say that "the Hoover Dam harnessed the power of divorce..." 🤔
Please do San Fran or LA next!!
Wait, that Union Pacific railroad map was epic.
You should do some Australian cities. They would suit your style.
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Awesome video
Oh I’m early early. Feels nice
My takeaway from this is that Vega from Street Fighter is named Meadow.
The funny part is for people not from Las Vegas they think Las Vegas is the South Strip, Mega Casinos, and LV Sign across from Reid Airport. But that’s not Las Vegas. They are in Paradise, LV - an incorporated city in Clark County outside of Las Vegas. Las Vegas is North of Sahara Ave. past the Strat.
Double bonus trivia. In Clark County in Las Vegas, full nude strip clubs are not allowed if they serve alcohol. There’s only one or two gentlemen clubs that have been grandfathered and mostly for locals with B level talent if you catch my drift. Bonus to prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas nor Clark County . The nearest county where that would be NYE
Houston. It is a BIG messy story just waiting to be told. With lots of interesting stories of the energy industry.
I would Love one on DFW
Could you please explain again how a person can bankrupt three casinos and still be considered a good businessman? It makes no sense to me.
Well we elected a guy who bankrupt multiple businesses and was awarded the most powerful position in the world so I wouldn't call it extraordinary
Only got 1:13 minutes in and it's time for Work..... Will finish when I get home.
how was work?
PLEASE DO DETROIT NEXT!!
Any chance we can get San Francisco/ Bay Area
You should get a sharpie sponsorship.
Oooo maps, have you heard of Johnny Harris?