Las Vegas 1964 archive footage
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2022
- Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in the 1960s
It contains stock footage of Las Vegas, probably shot in early 1964: view from a driver point of view while going in the Boulder Strip and Las Vegas Strip (the Riviera, Castaways Hotel and Casino, Stardust Resort and Casino, Dunes Hotel, Glenn Vegas Motel), people playing slot machines, people walking in Las Vegas Strip at night, Casino's signs at night (Horseshoe, Hotel Fremont, Golden Nugget, Pioneer Club, The Mint), and more.
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Love the old cars and the beautiful creative signage. It's amazing how much open space there was still around the area.
Yes, true, the population was 15% of what it is today in Las Vegas. No wonder there was more open space.
How weird. I don't see people wearing cool clothes like shorts, tennis shoes and t-shirts. Wasn't it hot at that time?
where are the old hookers?
@@vulcano911 It was probably winter, which was a little cooler back then.
When Vegas was fun!
true true
Love the old Vegas footage. Such a different skyline from when I started coming in the late 80s. So few big hotels, this is even pre Caesars Palace. All that downtown neon looks great, maybe more inviting than downtown today.
The lady in curlers with a cigarette in her mouth playing the slots- classic.
They were called one armed bandits for obvious reasons.
4:33
Back when the Mob ran the casinos. As a kid, I stayed at The Hacienda that year with my parents. In later years, I worked there as a musician. Those days were ‘magic’
Great music choice, by the way…
Loved the music!
Love the old cars. Wonderful footage from a time.
Many thanks!
Problem is they were not old back then, but don’t you wish you can go back in time to lease pick one up and bring it back to the future
@@remylopez4821 Back then an old car would be 1930s car which you would occasionally see still tooling down the road. One of my fathers friends back then had a 1930s car that he still drove. He was probably 10, 15 or 20 years older than my father so he may have bought it new.
I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!
@@michaelmeyers3664In the early 1960's? No way. The Hippies would arrive 3 years later in '67 after this film clip & then things started to get really FREAKY! MONTEREY, WOODSTOCK, ISLE OF WIGHT etc.
When I watch these videos I feel nostalgic about these businesses that are no longer there. I believe I'm an old soul and that's why these old places relate somewhere in my heart
1964 my first trip to Vegas, in my 56 chevy belair. The excitement was unmeasurable. The first hotel I went to was the Sahara, I really miss that Vegas. I have asked locals what they think of all the changes most of them all say the same thing they hate it, I agree total gridlock
Its the style and savoir faire that left Vegas a while after when the corporations took over. It ruined everything. No fun anymore at all for me. Ppl wear spandex shorts with everything hangin' out and flip flops into the hotels (pardon me while i barf)...looking their worst... just disgusting... and the hotels kept getting bigger and bigger for $$$ and the ppl were looking nastier and nastier. Now there's nothing much to glean from it... no excitement... its all been dragged down into a joke.
The **40's, 50's and 60's* were great...even the 70's.
@@ShogunHullVegas was better when the MOB ran it. They kept things SIMPLE! U go to Vegas then, keep your 👃 NOSEclean, have a good time & go home with stories to tell. What happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas. At least then; Now...the whole 🌎 WORLD is there a long with BIG $$$ money corporations.
Segregation 1964 Las Vegas.
Love the old cars. When I was a boy in '64, we had a '62 Chevy Impala and a '63 Ford Galaxie.
I still have a 64 Nova and a 65 F100!
We had a 55' Rocket 88 Olds up until 64'.
@@matrox Very cool 😎
@@malcolmmarshall5946Green '64 Chevy BelAire until 1971. In the 60's, my dad would pile us in on early Saturday mornings & we'd go 🎣 fishing at Wolf Lake on the IIIINOIS/INDIANA STATE line, not far from USS & INTERLAKE Steel companies. Miss those days. Everybody was alive & healthy.
Not a single teenager, baby stroller, or busker in sight, as should be, love this vegas
Love our kids more than ever. That is why we take them every where
@@ednacastro829What a stupid comment!
Why just take gambling money when you can get family money as well? 😊
I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!
Not a family vacation destination back in 1964.
great vid...nice older crowd..back when life was so much safer and calmer.....I miss old Vegas..today these massive casino monstrosities have taken over the good ol' feel of the town...thank you for posting..I enjoyed it...and that sax
Oh yes, I miss old vegas too! It was way more fun years ago!
There will never be another age like the space age and how I wish I could have be born in those times….but no, I just had to be a late 70’s kid!
Moved to Nevada in '96 and have seen Vegas hundreds of times. It's hard to imagine it was once this open. Heavy traffic is nonexistent, and it looks like a medium sized town in any state USA.
Vintage Jazz! Smokin Kools on the nickel slots. Milton Berle, Frank Gorshin, Redd Fox. Nostalgia overload for those over 70.
4:14 the star of the show! incredible film
Lol... You know you're a degenerate gambler when you're playing two slots at once. 😊
Pahrump, Nevada, still has these fabulous stars~
@@oldiesgeek454with hair curlers on. She looked like a meth addict.
And the Confessions magazine on the rack behind her with catchy stories like "Heavy Petting Made Me Pregnant."
@@malibustacy3606Good eye! I had to go back and pause to see that Confessions cover. She’s definitely the star of this video - those ROLLERS😍 and that CIGARETTE😍‼️😂
...When Las Vegas was Iconic. It was better. Safer. Better in so many ways. ...it is now Over -run Over built, over crowded, OVERLY EXPENSIVE,... no longer recognizable in the ways it should be. Beautiful footage, thank you.
This was a great video to reminisce thank you so much! The lady in the curlers is pretty hilarious.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love her😍‼️
lol...the addicted lady playing the slots in her curlers, dusk is my favorite time on the strip, just as it's getting dark and the lights from the casinos start popping on.
What a time capsule. I love the city I feel at home there. Great footage.
Many thanks!
Got lost for a moment in another time cool video thanks to whoever filmed it and whoever put it on youtube
I remember going to the stardust drive in . And going to the silver sliper arcade those were the good years.
My divorced mom and I saw Dean Martin and Count Basie at the Sands back then. We stayed at the Stardust and swam in the big pool. I wish I could have been a better more suitable companion for her. Thanks for taking me along mommy.
Love to see a then and now of the strip
Back when Las Vegas had real character & personality, unlike today.
Oh it’s got character alright lol may not be the one we all appreciate 😅
Excellent!!!
Glad you like it!
The good old days,town sucks now 😢
08:59 Hotel Fremont, i used to employed from 1971 to 1999.
Wow. You're a survivor. I liked Las Vegas the best in the mid 1990s when Treasure Island, MGM Grand, and Luxor were new. By 2001 it was already a very different landscape and was too crowded, expensive, and over-hyped. You retired at the perfect time 🙄
❤️Las Vegas here now due to covid reassessment of life in FL and an ungrateful employer.
I wasn’t even born yet. Not until 1965. Love the old cars
*Thank you for that excellent video and music. It really was a nice view of the old days.*
Glad you enjoyed it
Back when america was great and all her cities were great, i love vegas, would move their in a heartbeat if there was an oilfield industry.
The 50's, 60's and 70's were the best of times in America. So many great things come from this Era. The good far outweighed the bad.. Certainly not perfect but far better than 2023. America and humanity in general is in a death spiral.
With Jim Crow and Red lining......SOOOO GREAT!
I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!
@@gd2bking1& JFK was 🥃 shot & killed in DALLAS just months earlier in 1963. End of November.
This is awesome! 🎲
Thank you 🙌
It didn't look too much different when I arrived about 12-13 years later. Taxi's were still red, white and blue and the dust storms were an awful nuisance. I wish it was still a small little town in the desert like it used to be. Too big, crowded and expensive now.
I learned two things from this video: One, the lights were as bright as ever, and, Two, heavy petting can make you pregnant.
Nice, love the bkgrnd musical choice too. Thanks for this
Thank you too!
holy mackrel. what a difference from back then until today. the hotels weren't 40, 50 story's tall, a lot of little dinky motels, all those one armed bandits machines, they really look ancient. the older people, none of them looked too happy, and that one lady in curlers. neat video, and they call it progress!
I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!
One road in and out. Was great back then. It is horrible now.
It's amazing to me that the thought of putting chairs at slots so ppl would stay longer didn't occur sooner..... 🙃
Awesome video ❤️
Thank you 🤗
I remember this so well. /thanks.
Rather 1964 ?
0:46 - '64 Impala, 3:15 - '64 Imperial, 3:38 - '64 Galaxie
Pretty sure the film is March 1964
The cars.👍
@@VintageLasVegas And Beatlemania was in full swing. They played the LV Convention Center in August of that year. 😊
Great nostalgic video. Especially the smoking woman in rollers at the slots.
I like how no one getting robbed, no car jackings. Back then you would park your car and leave your windows down til you returned and all your stuff was not messed with.
In 1980 I began what would turn out to be a 30 year career in the casino business. I broke in as a Blackjack dealer at the Lady Luck in downtown Las Vegas. Over the next three decades I worked all over the state of Nevada. including Laughlin, Mesquite and a few others. It was quite a ride. I do miss it, sometimes.
Let me ask you something? Is the person that shot this footage afraid his copyright will be stolen? This would have been a very good historic video if not for the stamp across the front of the video? Hey bud if you are afraid of this happening how about not showing it.
I see Sheckey Greene playing at the Riviera here. He is still with us at 97 years old God Bless Him. Almost the last one standing from those days.
Mr. Greene passed away on December 31, 2023 in Las Vegas. A long life, well lived.
Nickel slots, pack of Kools, life’s good, dig the pink curlers.
"Dayyyyyyyng"! "WOW, It's nothing short of a miracle that I survived this!
Please move the footageforpro logo down to the corner. Minimize it. Just do it.
Aha! The Castaways, and the Thunderbird. 2 places I visited in the early 70’s. My guess is the footage inside the bus was a trip to Boulder Dam. I worked for that bus line.
.57 1957 Oldsmobile Fiesta Wagon. A very rare car today. Woman pulling two slots in hair curlers! My mom wouldn't be caught dead in public like that!
4:28 working those slots in rollers while her hair sets 😍
Multi-tasking.
really good
What amazes me is how Las Vegas has been ruined. Too much drugs gangs over crowding homelessness Street prostitutes. It's just sad.
So just like every other city then.
@@malibustacy3606Pretty much.
Vegas had its own style back then.
Was I the only one waiting for someone to hit a Jackpot?
The movie marquee visible at 1:21 lists "Charade" and "The Raiders", both of which were released in December 1963 per IMDb, so your estimate that it was early 1964 is probably correct.
Oh this would've been amazing to be there
Neat seeing those old slot machines. Ones that were actual real nickle and penny machines. Lol
Black fingertips 😂 moist towelettes 👐
Looked a lot cooler then.
Anyone over 40 (which appears to be almost everybody) in the video is almost certainly deceased. Even the 30 somethings that are still alive are in their 90s. :/
Scary right ahahhahhaha welcome to freaky land
Remembe going there in summer of 1964, stayed at the Orbit Inn
Las Vegas was 10x more cloudy back then .. those were the days
Also lots of motels lmao… honestly it was best in the late 70s to early 90s most likely.
04:22 This woman combed her hair, put on makeup, dressed appropriately and went to have fun at the casino
THIS IS WHAT LAS VEGAS LOOKED LIKE WHEN WE ARRIVED IN 1965 😢😢
Would have been nicer without the watermark smack in the middle?
Whats the song in the background?
much more likeable than today 😔
My hometown.❤
Its too bad that when you started the camera... you didn't get the El Rancho Vegas property or the Sahara...across from it. I saw only a lonely Thunderbird tall neon... not the hotel. the El Rancho was and always will be the Cornerstone of the Strip... all on my Dad's land... to the Riviera and the Westward Ho past the Riviera Hotel... I saw the Algiers sign which was next to the Sahara.. the El Rancho Vegas again directly across the street.
I can't help thinking that the woman in curlers, smoking a Kool and showing all the signs of a gambling addiction was probably someone's mother. What a nightmare.
So it's been nearly 60 years since this was shot, and nearly every comment on this thread is a positive one. I wonder what the comment section will look like in 2084, when someone uploads a video of LV in 2024?🤔
Back then, the dealers knew your name, what you played and what you drank. Nowadays you get a $4 million whale checking into the hotel, and the 23 year old clerk wants to see a social security card. And if you order room service, you’re lucky if you get it by Tuesday
Back in this time people would run to be on camera. Now we all run away 😂
my parents had swizzle sticks from all those casinos and I threw them out
And 1 year later our family would drive north to attend the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair when I was in elementary school. The first time I got to see the Ford Mustang in real life, the first time I saw an Airbag demonstration, the first time I got to see a man being shot out of a cannon and the first time I saw a man fly with a Jet pack on his back.☝😁 The 60s were such a great time for kids to grow up. Great music and cool cars and the sexy ladies.✊😏
@matrox Sexy ladies with CLASS! or, as Sinatra called 'em: DAMES.
I love american cars, i bought Ford Fairlane 500 coupe -64 and Ford Thunderbird -66 in Sweden, we love american cars in Sweden, great video i think of Rat Pack when i see this video 👍🇺🇸🇸🇪
Very cool!
If you want to see a lot of american cars in Sweden you can google "Power meet", then you can see thai Sweden love american cars, Henry 👍
Love all the vintage footage but why are all the people old???
Vegas was considered an old person town back then. Young people didn’t care about vegas
Older please
2:14 I guarantee that is West Main Street Barstow Ca the famous Sage Motel on top of the hill.
A+ on the video, but the watermark sucks.
MY DAUGHTER SHANNON WON WEE MISS NEVADA WHEN SHE WAS THREE YERS OLD ❤🎉❤ AT THE THUNDERBIRD HOTEL AND CASINO IT IS NOT THERE ANYMORE ..😊😊😊
"Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire. Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn so get the stakes up higher."
The lady with curlers plunking down nickels in those slot machines has since gone to the great casino in the sky, perhaps plunking down dollar slots! 😂
Why was everything better back then. Coming from a Gen Z. I prefer Vegas in the 1960’s over todays. Also the 80s still the best decade.
I like the chick smoking a cigarette while dumping money into the slot machine.She would be a real sinkhole for your money.
This is how it shoud be. Kids have Disney, adults need LAS VEGAS without kids!!!
Great music of the era, much cooler place then, edgy.
🎉
The url in the center of the screen is annoying!
I was looking for Robert De Niro and the Tangiers Casino. People put real silver dollars in the slot machines.
já tinha insufilme
notice they are not smiling
Viva Las Vegas movie was filmed the same year 1964
😊😅
In the days when cars used to have a boot.
12:40 wish I could buy that land for sale
60's Vegas is actually very beautiful love the quality it's like actually being there 🤩 it's weird there are no black people around though
Ikr
Way back when, African Americans were pretty much relegated to living on the West side of town and were generally not allowed to visit the Strip unless they were there to work. They weren’t allowed to stay at the hotels either. A casino, the Moulin Rouge was opened on the West Side to cater to them. The place featured many black performers and was popular with both African Americans and white guests. But unfortunately it burned to the ground after only a few years and was never rebuilt.
Things started to change with the Rat Pack, lead by Frank Sinatra who would not perform if their partner, Sammy Davis Jr. , wasn’t allowed to stay at the hotel they were performing at.
@@erikjs wow
You would find them in Westside.
@@shaniceturner7640Same thing happened on MIAMI BEACH B4 LAS VEGAS. Davis wouldn't be allowed to perform so Sinatra & Martin didn't perform either.
Whatta great year......(I'll be 60/next year)......😢....!!
Nice! I was not born yet❤️ ha then moved there 11 yrs later and lived there for 22y. Yes i also dont like it today, whenever i visit that is.
Perhaps,
However by the late 60s eight casinos were bought out
An unheard of monopoly of its time.
A step toward, legitimate business operations
In 1974 Clark County had a population, of 144,000
It would increase to 1.2 million, by 1989
with a current population of about
2.5 M.
15,000 estimated to be homeless
When The International Las Vegas Hilton was built in 1969 it went on record as the first
mega resort casino.
The Tropicana is set for implosion
The Las Vegas visitors toll, is roughly at
4. billion a year
with that Las Vegas Blvd is bringing in restaurant franchises
Its the charge of a new image.
to meet the demands
The lady in the curlers kills me.. can you say addictions.
I've lived here since 1974 and it's the armpit of the country... homeless encampments are springing up and crime is going up also... I'm getting out of here soon
shecky greene. now you know you're in vegas.
Now that man is funny. He was a gambler I heard, just like Redd Foxx.
When Sin City was just that~now its a wasted city~~
Well that's what sin gets you lol.
@@punchline43😅😂😂😂 yup!
Real Vegas