Moved to Vegas in 1975 after graduating High school. Started working construction and watched firsthand all the changes that have taken place. Worked in some capacity on almost all the hotel casinos. What an amazing trip it has been! Love this city for all it is!
Love it!..I was there, then...Saw all those places...including Elvis..when that sign was there...Was in all those hotels...and ONLY regret I, being so young...didn't realize how I was in a place that would never be again...
Ah yes, the good old days. Las Vegas at such an innocent time back in the 70's. Those were the best times for me to be in Las Vegas. Those Summers I spent in Las Vegas in the Mid to Late 70's were unforgettable!
i had forgotten what my hometown of las vegas looked like in 1976 i was 8yrs old and i met Elvis Presley 5 times in person in september of 76 was such a happy time for me .then 45 years later i found out i'm related to elvis makes me feel proud to be related to him
FANTASTIC FOOTAGE! especially for this local since 1964, and a big elvis fan. :) love the footage of the hilton. this was dec 76, and elvis' last shows here. i was at the last one: 12/12/76. and the shows was $25 back then: 2 drinks. yowza! (and elvis was GREAT!)
Having lived in Vegas since 1965, I was little surprised that kids my age used to complain that there was nothing to do in Vegas during the 1970s. There were plenty and we could go to Red Rock, Lake Mead, Mt. Charleston and Craig Road Speedway without bumping into anyone in traffic or paying a fee. I do miss the old days before the over population. You felt safer. Seeing Elvis then eat at Benihana or at Landmark, that was a great combination.
Back in the day we used to go to lake Dolores in California if you remember that they used to advertise TV commercials for it on channel 5 on channel 5 during the movie segment with Gus Guiffre.
What great stuff. I remember the old Travel Lodge on the strip. Stayed there when I was a little kid on my first trip in vegas in 1965. Also remember from later trips "Dirty Sally's". That was a bar/disco with alot people playing bacgammon in the front half of the club. Also remember the Dennys in front of the Sands,
My feelings about Vegas exactly. It's too bad someone like Wynn or Stupak doesn't take the hint and create a place called "Old Vegas" based on all the old casinos. Broke my heart when the Landmark came down.
Absolutely terrific footage! Brought back lots of memories. Wish Vegas still looked like this. All-time classic architecture: Dunes and Landmark. All-time classic signs: Dunes and Stardust.
My parents started going to LV in the early 50's and then in 59' when I was 5 they took me and every year (sometimes twice) I'd go w/my family and I have to say those very early years were just wonderful. The 60's, 70' and even the 80's were great. Now it's been destroyed by "big business"; they ruined this place forever. Tommyboo21 I agree 100% w/your post. Vegas back then was the "safest" place to be. No one would EVER think of holding up any casino. You'd be sleeping w/the fishies .
Wow I love Vegas history..and I was only 1 year old when you filmed this! The casinos and hotels were so much more subdued than today..and the strip was so deserted back then!....What I would do to time travel back to see this in person to appreciate it
If you notice, most of the amature footage shot of Vegas back in the 70's is from hotel room windows or discretely down on the street of the strip. Carrying cameras around most parts of Vegas and specifically in the casinos was a big "NO NO" back in the day.
@Bartels92 ... It was the International back then. ;-) Great video! Our town has changed so much (I've lived here since 1969), but there's still no place like it anywhere in the world! Viva LasVegas!
Nice! And great choice of music too! Am taking a few of my fellow Bombay Taxi Drivers Association on a 'jolly boys outing' to Vegas in May - can't wait!
I went in 1983, It was the old Vegas, I stayed in The Golden Nugget, what an experience.Coming from England,I had never seen anything like it in my Life, I was 23,Myself and a girlfriend went together, we had a tough time constantly ID'd, Our film taken from our camera by security, Women Barstaff, nasty to us, but we had the experience of a lifetime. so glad i saw it then, I have been back twice as it is now, and it's fantastic, but it's lost that which once was there, It had a kind of respect that had to be adhered to...strict but CLASS!
I was a kid in the 70's when my parents and grandparents stopped in Las Vegas in our way to Utah. I have been to Las Vegas twice as an adult in 2013 and 2014. It is still a great place but the high end shopping areas are a joke most folks are middle class or lower wanting to try and win some money, eat, drink, party and have a good time checking out all there is to do in Vegas. It sucks that Vegas is being geared to the mega rich instead of the average vacationer.
I will forever love my hometown, Las Vegas. My father came here with a wife and four children...soon to be five... and obtained two jobs within 24 hours. Compare this to the very racist atmosphere of El Paso, TX, where he struggled non stop. I will forever love Las Vegas.
Who remembers the Alpine Village Inn the Rathskellar I worked there in 1977 wore the knickerbockers served the bread Those were the days made good tips when I was 14 light about my age saying I was 16.
@darrylhaynes No, it's still there on Fremont and Main Street next to the Las Vegas Greyhound Bus Station. It is now called "Jackie Gaughan's Plaza". It is plenty different now than when it was back in 1974 and 1975.
The good Vegas,back when you could play full pay blackjack and get some 1.99 steak and eggs at 4 in the morning. Now all u get is $30 buffets,overpriced rooms with resort fees, no customer service, no good comps and people bringing their frikin kids. No thanks.
Its nice watching a video of Vegas and not seeing a bunch of mindless idiots walking around looking down at their phones. Back when people talked to each other and actually had manners and social skills.
oh there were mindless idiots walking around when there were no phones to bury your head in.there were rude and mean people as well but not as bad as today
Back when Las Vegas had the RAT PACK , the Kings of COOL Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Sammy Davis Junior Today we got the Big Ass Kardashian sisters & Transgender weirdo Caitlyn Jenner. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
David Lucas like any thing else there were pluses and minuses. The town was much smaller and in the casino business it felt like you knew everyone. We didn't have a lot of the options we enjoy now with shopping, dining and many other amenities. I have fond memories of the past but I don't want to go back.
I was in Vegas in "76 too. I stayed at Caesars Palace, it was one of the best Hotel/Casinos in that era, & I went to a double performance-Don Rickles/Ann Margret( of Viva Las Vegas fame). Vegas was in a transition period then. This was a few years after Howard Hughes bought the Desert Inn(The Mob wanted him to leave, because conventioneers were coming, so instead he bought the place. realized how much the Mob made, brought in retired military types, and you know the rest of the story).
Wow, I used to LOVE Slots-A-Fun and Circus Circus(both of which were close to Westward Ho) from about 1984 to 1994. I was in Las Vegas 2 months ago and went into slots-a-fun on a saturday night after not being in their for about 10 years and the whole fun slots-a-fun vibe of years past is dead....VERY SAD as I have spent many a day and night at slots-a-fun and circus circus and have some special memories there of my younger years. Mrs.Vil, I am just curious do you still live in Las Vegas?
I wonder if people in the year 2047 will look at the Wynn, Encore, , City Center Casino’s min Vegas and say, “Wow what a dump.” Must have been a nice place in 2012.
our family hangout The Lady Luck! U could get ur pictures taken on thick cardboard paper and mail it home from the casino! When we got one of our grandparents we would cry all day for them to come home! tey had a second home there. Man oh man! that was Vegas. And the Damm locus!
@tommyboo21 No problem. I recall back through the 80's, if someone walked in the casinos with a camera they were told to leave and come back without it. Some hotels would tell guests were told to go around and use the door to the front desk instead of going through the casino with a camera. The front doors were always guarded and the guards wore guns just like cops. There was little loitering allowed out front and casinos mainly policed the strip rather than the cops.
From 7:08 to about 7:25 is interesting to me. It's a shot of the old MGM Grand (now Bally's) taken from the Strip. What's notable is that the land closest to the Strip is being used as a simple outdoor parking lot. I think Bally's current owners would have preferred the parking lot put in the rear so that the casino floor was a bit closer to the Strip. :)
@tommyboo21 The owners kept everything private and confidential back in those days. No cameras. A lot of guys took "business trips" out there without their wives, if you know what I mean. I recall walking around there with my dad back in the early 70's when I was a kid and not even being allowed to walk through the Imperial Palace or Flamingo casinos to get to the restaurant. Even up through the 80's you could not have a camera in a casino.
I live in Las Vegas and it's difficult to recognize anything on there. Most of those buildings are completely gone, except the Flamingo but I still can't recognize it.
@ccipollini1984 I have to agree with you. I moved there in 81 and left for good in 99. But it was the early years that I loved best. Downtown had 2 way traffic when I first moved there and on friday nights it was like american graffiti. I got in towards the end of an era and remember when the things that were in the movie "Casino" actually happened. I worked with guys who started in the 60's and had stories from their era. My name ends in "ini" too. Those were the days. My brother is at Mirage.
@baarbear I work at the MGM Grand. The fact that they took the Lion Exhibit out shows that there is no respect for the past here. MGM used to have a yellowbrick road, a theme park, an arcade and lions. Now they are building a night club that's going to have a view of the strip in place of the lions, a comedy club for adults in place of the arcade, where the theme park was is a pool and "Wet Republic" where celebrities go. Yeah, once Vegas went corporate, shit hit the fan.
they did that cause of the noise the slot machines made when it dropped its coins into the pan. people were complaining about that it was to loud .go figure huh
It wasn't the noise. They could reduce the pain the ass personnel. ATMs and change machines don't call in sick. Don't have babysitter conflicts. Don't have SS or workman's comp. Or file bad back claims from lugging all those rolls of coins.
WOW they got rid of the loins? I haven't been there in about 4 years.... I had a feeling that was going to happen. Last time I was there the girl told me she didn't think the loin cubs were coming back.
Thank goodness Vegas does not look like this today. Made about 2 dollars a hour and poker rooms were notoriously crooked. Glad to see the glitz of today and making a lot more money too boot.
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Moved to Vegas in 1975 after graduating High school. Started working construction and watched firsthand all the changes that have taken place. Worked in some capacity on almost all the hotel casinos. What an amazing trip it has been! Love this city for all it is!
4601eureka oh that's nice so where the Treasure Island is standing at what hotel was there before or what was there
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I worked at the alladdin performing arts theater in 1976
Love it!..I was there, then...Saw all those places...including Elvis..when that sign was there...Was in all those hotels...and ONLY regret I, being so young...didn't realize how I was in a place that would never be again...
Ah yes, the good old days. Las Vegas at such an innocent time back in the 70's. Those were the best times for me to be in Las Vegas. Those Summers I spent in Las Vegas in the Mid to Late 70's were unforgettable!
I'm inventing a time machine JUST to go back to the old 70's Vegas!
please stop by my house and get me ,i would love to relive my youth of 70s vegas see my relatives one more time and friends agian
don't forget to get me too, thanks!
Me too 😊
Meeeeee Tooooo❤. Never been in the 70s but man I miss 90's Vegas 😢
Thank you for the wonderful footage! Great memories from a different time. I have been a resident since 1973 and remember all this great stuff!
I've been a residence since 1972 we moved here when I was 9 I'm still here at the age of 58 working here in the air conditioning trade.
i had forgotten what my hometown of las vegas looked like in 1976 i was 8yrs old and i met Elvis Presley 5 times in person in september of 76 was such a happy time for me .then 45 years later i found out i'm related to elvis makes me feel proud to be related to him
FANTASTIC FOOTAGE! especially for this local since 1964, and a big elvis fan. :) love the footage of the hilton.
this was dec 76, and elvis' last shows here. i was at the last one: 12/12/76. and the shows was $25 back then: 2 drinks. yowza! (and elvis was GREAT!)
Having lived in Vegas since 1965, I was little surprised that kids my age used to complain that there was nothing to do in Vegas during the 1970s. There were plenty and we could go to Red Rock, Lake Mead, Mt. Charleston and Craig Road Speedway without bumping into anyone in traffic or paying a fee. I do miss the old days before the over population. You felt safer. Seeing Elvis then eat at Benihana or at Landmark, that was a great combination.
Back in the day we used to go to lake Dolores in California if you remember that they used to advertise TV commercials for it on channel 5 on channel 5 during the movie segment with Gus Guiffre.
What great stuff. I remember the old Travel Lodge on the strip. Stayed there when I was a little kid on my first trip in vegas in 1965. Also remember from later trips "Dirty Sally's". That was a bar/disco with alot people playing bacgammon in the front half of the club. Also remember the Dennys in front of the Sands,
My feelings about Vegas exactly. It's too bad someone like Wynn or Stupak doesn't take the hint and create a place called "Old Vegas" based on all the old casinos.
Broke my heart when the Landmark came down.
the "Old Vegas Hotel & Casino" I like it!
Lol...nice memories. I was 14 in 1976. Las Vegas is still the coolest town in the world.
I was 13 in 76
Absolutely terrific footage! Brought back lots of memories. Wish Vegas still looked like this. All-time classic architecture: Dunes and Landmark. All-time classic signs: Dunes and Stardust.
My parents started going to LV in the early 50's and then in 59' when I was 5 they took me and every year (sometimes twice) I'd go w/my family and I have to say those very early years were just wonderful. The 60's, 70' and even the 80's were great. Now it's been destroyed by "big business"; they ruined this place forever. Tommyboo21 I agree 100% w/your post. Vegas back then was the "safest" place to be. No one would EVER think of holding up any casino. You'd be sleeping w/the fishies .
1976 I met my best friend in 1975 this would be one year as friends. . we are still in 2018 still
Wow I love Vegas history..and I was only 1 year old when you filmed this! The casinos and hotels were so much more subdued than today..and the strip was so deserted back then!....What I would do to time travel back to see this in person to appreciate it
If you notice, most of the amature footage shot of Vegas back in the 70's is from hotel room windows or discretely down on the street of the strip. Carrying cameras around most parts of Vegas and specifically in the casinos was a big "NO NO" back in the day.
This is the Vegas era I missed out on. Great music here, too. Ross stores on the strip? Not.
Thats amazing it looked classy.
Very nervous and frenetic camera work. Do like the music!
@Bartels92 ... It was the International back then. ;-) Great video! Our town has changed so much (I've lived here since 1969), but there's still no place like it anywhere in the world! Viva LasVegas!
Thanks for Count Basie music !!
Nice! And great choice of music too! Am taking a few of my fellow Bombay Taxi Drivers Association on a 'jolly boys outing' to Vegas in May - can't wait!
Great music I enjoyed very much soft and cosy
Year I moved to vegas!cool thanks for posting.
I went in 1983, It was the old Vegas, I stayed in The Golden Nugget, what an experience.Coming from England,I had never seen anything like it in my Life, I was 23,Myself and a girlfriend went together, we had a tough time constantly ID'd, Our film taken from our camera by security, Women Barstaff, nasty to us, but we had the experience of a lifetime. so glad i saw it then, I have been back twice as it is now, and it's fantastic, but it's lost that which once was there, It had a kind of respect that had to be adhered to...strict but CLASS!
Looks like a completely different place to Vegas today. Thanks.
Even for a home movie that’s pretty awful camera control.
U sound dum
@@mikeandmars2345 dumb * dumbass
GREAT VID!!!! This is the Vegas I remember fondly from my teens and early 20's. The city is CRAPPY now!!
I was a kid in the 70's when my parents and grandparents stopped in Las Vegas in our way to Utah. I have been to Las Vegas twice as an adult in 2013 and 2014. It is still a great place but the high end shopping areas are a joke most folks are middle class or lower wanting to try and win some money, eat, drink, party and have a good time checking out all there is to do in Vegas. It sucks that Vegas is being geared to the mega rich instead of the average vacationer.
AGREED!
Thanks for the memories
I'm digging this!
AMAZING!!!!! THANK YOU Yoooreds!!!!
I sure miss old Vegas.
I will forever love my hometown, Las Vegas. My father came here with a wife and four children...soon to be five... and obtained two jobs within 24 hours. Compare this to the very racist atmosphere of El Paso, TX, where he struggled non stop. I will forever love Las Vegas.
The year I was born and born in Vegas ❤️❤️
Long Long time agoooo !! WOW ! Thank-Ya, Thank-Ya, Verrrry Muuucchhh !
Who remembers the Alpine Village Inn the Rathskellar I worked there in 1977 wore the knickerbockers served the bread Those were the days made good tips when I was 14 light about my age saying I was 16.
I worked at the MGM from 73-76Nov. I did not see it and the cars looked too old. I think you had a hang over from an earlier time.
Such great nostalgia!
@darrylhaynes No, it's still there on Fremont and Main Street next to the Las Vegas Greyhound Bus Station. It is now called "Jackie Gaughan's Plaza". It is plenty different now than when it was back in 1974 and 1975.
Never been to Vegas it's probably not like it was years ago but it's on my bucket list of places to go ☺️
The good Vegas,back when you could play full pay blackjack and get some 1.99 steak and eggs at 4 in the morning. Now all u get is $30 buffets,overpriced rooms with resort fees, no customer service, no good comps and people bringing their frikin kids. No thanks.
Steven Runyon lol
thanks friend..
Its nice watching a video of Vegas and not seeing a bunch of mindless idiots walking around looking down at their phones. Back when people talked to each other and actually had manners and social skills.
I couldn't agree with you more.....state of today's world
I couldn't agree with you more.....state of today's world
oh there were mindless idiots walking around when there were no phones to bury your head in.there were rude and mean people as well but not as bad as today
I still wouldn't have been making convo with random strangers.
Please put the "In a Mellow Tone" back on the track. I cannot find that version of the song anywhere. It was perfect for this video. Please!
Vegas as it is now is grand and impressive, but the period from the '50s to the late '70s was its golden age.
This is when Vegas was Vegas, i lived by the Hilton back then.
Back when Las Vegas had the RAT PACK , the Kings of COOL
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis Junior
Today we got the Big Ass Kardashian sisters & Transgender weirdo Caitlyn Jenner.
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I worked at the Flamingo in 1976
+mike Bordeaux While you were at the Flamingo in 1976 I was at the Stardust. I miss the way Vegas was in the 70's terribly.
you guys remember an old nbc tv series filming across from the landmark hotel in October,1974?the show was called MOVIN'ON.
mike Bordeaux .....how was Vegas back then ?
David Lucas like any thing else there were pluses and minuses. The town was much smaller and in the casino business it felt like you knew everyone. We didn't have a lot of the options we enjoy now with shopping, dining and many other amenities. I have fond memories of the past but I don't want to go back.
mike Bordeaux so would you say overall it's better now ?
when vegas was special and unique now it looks like one big mall
Nice 2 see how Vegas looked in the year I was born 1/4/1976
That Landmark was interesting place.
Nice cars
I was in Vegas in "76 too. I stayed at Caesars Palace, it was one of the best Hotel/Casinos in that era, & I went to a double performance-Don Rickles/Ann Margret( of Viva Las Vegas fame). Vegas was in a transition period then. This was a few years after Howard Hughes bought the Desert Inn(The Mob wanted him to leave, because conventioneers were coming, so instead he bought the place. realized how much the Mob made, brought in retired military types, and you know the rest of the story).
Not sure if this was posted: The music is Duke Ellington In A Mellotone. Nice film!!
Joe Williams & the Count Basie Orchestra Dennis.
Wow, I used to LOVE Slots-A-Fun and Circus Circus(both of which were close to Westward Ho) from about 1984 to 1994.
I was in Las Vegas 2 months ago and went into slots-a-fun on a saturday night after not being in their for about 10 years and the whole fun slots-a-fun vibe of years past is dead....VERY SAD as I have spent many a day and night at slots-a-fun and circus circus and have some special memories there of my younger years.
Mrs.Vil, I am just curious do you still live in Las Vegas?
I wonder if people in the year 2047 will look at the Wynn, Encore, , City Center Casino’s min Vegas and say, “Wow what a dump.” Must have been a nice place in 2012.
yeah i know really i was there in march... think i kept one of those ads as a souvenir
our family hangout The Lady Luck! U could get ur pictures taken on thick cardboard paper and mail it home from the casino! When we got one of our grandparents we would cry all day for them to come home! tey had a second home there. Man oh man! that was Vegas. And the Damm locus!
the landmark torn down to make a parking lot, pretty sad
@tommyboo21 No problem. I recall back through the 80's, if someone walked in the casinos with a camera they were told to leave and come back without it. Some hotels would tell guests were told to go around and use the door to the front desk instead of going through the casino with a camera. The front doors were always guarded and the guards wore guns just like cops. There was little loitering allowed out front and casinos mainly policed the strip rather than the cops.
WOWWW!! I love Vegas and Im so happy that im able to go how it is today. This looks totally different and not as fun.
It was "more" fun, back then!!
wow, very very interesting!!!!
From 7:08 to about 7:25 is interesting to me.
It's a shot of the old MGM Grand (now Bally's) taken from the Strip. What's notable is that the land closest to the Strip is being used as a simple outdoor parking lot.
I think Bally's current owners would have preferred the parking lot put in the rear so that the casino floor was a bit closer to the Strip. :)
When Vagas was the best! :)
How things have changed, wow.
Please, does anyone know what song this is from Count Basie? My grandparents danced to this song years ago. Thank you!
do you own the beautiful footage?
@tommyboo21 The owners kept everything private and confidential back in those days. No cameras. A lot of guys took "business trips" out there without their wives, if you know what I mean. I recall walking around there with my dad back in the early 70's when I was a kid and not even being allowed to walk through the Imperial Palace or Flamingo casinos to get to the restaurant. Even up through the 80's you could not have a camera in a casino.
I would do anything to have been able to live in this era
Yeah, I loved 70`s and 80`s Vegas.
@John Roma thanks man I guess your right.
I was born in Vegas (1976) I have never met another native that thinks today’s Vegas is better.
exactly,they don't understand,no clue!!!
I live in Las Vegas and it's difficult to recognize anything on there. Most of those buildings are completely gone, except the Flamingo but I still can't recognize it.
Where exactly was the Landmark? Can somebody give me a current point of reference. Thanks.
goodol69 across the street from the last Vegas convention center...the sign is still there corner of desert inn and paradise...it's a parking lot now
@Jiltedin2007 is it gone>???
I worked at that Dennys until the day it closed awesome times
My All-Time favorite Las Vegas Hotel was the Union Plaza.
I miss this Vegas
no way. Didn't you see the marquee sign that said Disco Dancing? Disco wasn't around much earlier
There was Dirty Sallys Disco in the early 70's on LV blvd.
@ccipollini1984 I have to agree with you. I moved there in 81 and left for good in 99. But it was the early years that I loved best. Downtown had 2 way traffic when I first moved there and on friday nights it was like american graffiti. I got in towards the end of an era and remember when the things that were in the movie "Casino" actually happened. I worked with guys who started in the 60's and had stories from their era. My name ends in "ini" too. Those were the days. My brother is at Mirage.
So I'm not the only one who thinks that Vegas has no respect for its history. That's heartening.
pretty cool video. Video? Super 8 movie.
was caesar or bellagio "old" vegas?
@baarbear I work at the MGM Grand. The fact that they took the Lion Exhibit out shows that there is no respect for the past here. MGM used to have a yellowbrick road, a theme park, an arcade and lions. Now they are building a night club that's going to have a view of the strip in place of the lions, a comedy club for adults in place of the arcade, where the theme park was is a pool and "Wet Republic" where celebrities go. Yeah, once Vegas went corporate, shit hit the fan.
Thought I saw a billboard with something about Elvis, not sure though, it went by so fast. 😳
@tsloverlarry the city isnt crappy now.
I once was in Vegas at about this time and passed up a chance to see Sinatra at the desert Inn for less than ten buck`s, never did see him.
great choice in music on a great video! Now you get hit with $28 resort fee and comps aint worth a damn.
resort fees are 35.00 to 40.00 dollars now I believe
@@davidmachado4400 I'm staying away from Las Vegas.
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the current location is at the parking lot for the convention center
I feel trapped playing SIM City 2000
This is when Vegas had real slot machines--not the fake electronic computerized slots that pay you with a voucher.
Holding buckets of coins waiting in line to cash out.
they did that cause of the noise the slot machines made when it dropped its coins into the pan. people were complaining about that it was to loud .go figure huh
It wasn't the noise. They could reduce the pain the ass personnel. ATMs and change machines don't call in sick. Don't have babysitter conflicts. Don't have SS or workman's comp. Or file bad back claims from lugging all those rolls of coins.
that is what i was told from someone i know who is a slot machine technician .there are many reasons why they did this .that was one of them i heard
waverly2468 you do know why they have the vouchers right
WOW they got rid of the loins? I haven't been there in about 4 years.... I had a feeling that was going to happen. Last time I was there the girl told me she didn't think the loin cubs were coming back.
The Flamingo Hilton looks like one f'ed-up hotel in this video. There were supposed to be two hotel towers in 1976.
starting to expand the east side neighborhood where I grew up!!
The Flamingo was so nice before they remolded it.
what song is this?
its so fuckin nice
@vegasadventures no, the Landmark
Thank goodness Vegas does not look like this today. Made about 2 dollars a hour and poker rooms were notoriously crooked. Glad to see the glitz of today and making a lot more money too boot.
Too bad for Elvis, he said goodbye to Vegas in '76. Great footage, I prefer todays Vegas, but its nice to see how it was back then.
@indyfan22k You got that right.