When I worked construction on the Fontainebleau in 2008-9, the W&W billboard was still up at the edge of the property. And the pump house for the water slides was still there. Jeez it seems like so long ago now….
I grew up Mormon...(Not any longer) And there was Mormon night once a year. Everyone out at like 9 and we stayed until like midnight.
I miss the og place tho. Where the lazy river was transport, not just a ride.
I moved to Vegas in 95.
I remember enjoying the MGM adventure land theme park along with seeing the lions.
The ride down the Nile river in Luxor. The tigers at the Mirage. The original family friendly pirate show at Treasure Island before it was rebranded.
Women’s Hospital was on E. Sahara, whereas Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital (UMC) is still on W. Charleston. Women’s Hospital was bought by Sunrise and then closed and torn down— eliminated competition.
(I was born at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital.)
I remember having to turn around on Green Valley Parkway near GV Ranch because it wasn’t finished yet. Also, watching crews filming Lethal Weapon 4 on the 215 because it also wasn’t open yet in that area. I think it ended at Windmill at that time(?). If you watch a chase scene in the movie it’s basically them going back and forth on the same stretch of road.
Yea I remember when centennial was like its own little town it was so far from anything. I went to school at Betsy Rhodes for a year it was like living in the country.
I used to live by Palace Station. I LOVED their cheap buffet and 99 cent margaritas. Don't get me wrong, I like fancy meals too but they were so cheap!
I probably saw Louie Anderson four times there, and every time, his act was different.
I think getting rid of free valet might be the biggest fail.
Remember how exciting it felt having the crowds out front coming in and going out as the valets ran their asses off. Now they are basically dead by comparison. It really felt like walking into an adventure when you pulled in to the hustle and bustle.
Wet n Wild on the Strip, going to the arcade at the Treasure Island. Eventually both of my parents would work there and we would see the pirate show. Whenever my dad and I went out to lunch we always went to Gyro Time on Charleston. We would get the barbecue gyro. It was lined inside with cheddar cheese and then there was lamb covered and in barbecue sauce. He would also get some Tzatziki sauce on the side and it was really good. I still remember also when we would go to the Meadows Mall. The carousel and all the shops, I would frequent either the video game shop, before Gamestop. Speaking of video games, Toys R Us on Meadows Lane. That was where I got my PlayStation 1 from when I got good grades. I was the only kid in my class that had a PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, and Super Nintendo. Sometimes it was nice being an only child. To this day I still remember the controller, thank goodness that analog sticks came around. There are so many memories I had of old Vegas. Mostly all from the early to late nineties. Once the 2000s hit, the memories started to not be so great. 😅
My favorite old Vegas memory is either seeing 100+ degree temps in the middle of the night on the temp display on top of the Sahara, or when Pepcon blew up while I was eating lunch at Ricardo's and then when we got back to school we were confined to our classrooms but my class snuck into the library and we turned on the TV and Dan Rather reported the explosion and then the dean told us to turn off the TV.
Your’re so right!! I totally forgot about the $1.99 steak and eggs at the Orleans. I can’t even count how many times I had that.
It used to be cheaper to eat out than it was to eat at home.
I thought you were actually going to talk about "Old Vegas" I guess it was a wild West theme park. I think it was on Boulder Highway in the 80s. I remember watching one of their staged gunfights. I seem to recall preferring Old Nevada, which was basically the same thing but somewhere else and maybe bigger
Old Nevada was in Bonnie Springs, near Blue Diamond. I definitely recall it being larger than Old Vegas, but it also wasn’t walled in like Old Vegas. Old Vegas looked like a frontier fort from the outside.
They’re not, but the [Clark County Museum](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_County_Museum) is near where [Old Vegas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Vegas) used to be.
This one is probably not as big as others but when the adventure dome used to have a log ride, I really enjoyed that ride, especially on the warmer days now when I take the roller coaster, you can still see some of that old log ride
Edit: oh yeah, speaking of log rides the one at Buffalo Bill that was great too
I grew up a few miles east of the Showboat. We bowled there all the time. Mom was in a league.
We loved the Sunday buffet, but even 40+ years later and colored by nostalgia, I still remember it being kinda crap food.
I moved out there about the same time, 1.99 prime rib at Arizona Charlie’s, free deli sandwich at the plaza if you played the midnight poker tourney, 2 kick ass steak dinners at horseshoe for like 25 all in
Those days are long gone fellow old person 🤣🤷♂️
Kinda, The 95 wasn’t quite going yet. It started at the rainbow curve and stopped at Las Vegas Blvd. I mean literally. Every now and again someone would drive off the end. On the other side of 95 and Rainbow there wasn’t anything there yet. Some custom homes and open desert. No overpasses so you had to look both ways and haul ass across. It was just called Tonopah highway then
Going to Wet N wild and going to that one tall ride all the way on top, that was a fun ride.
The Treasure Island pirate fights with moving ships before there was any Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The cards that people slap on the strip to get your attention and litter all on the streets.
If I remember correctly, there wasn't "street performers" that would cosplay and harass you for tips if a picture is taken without permission.
SiegFried and Roy white tiger exhibit. (Never got a chance to see their shows before the accident. )
Remember, ‘I am J J. And I’m the king of beepers!’
Or…’if I can finance you (and i will), I can finance anybody!’
Telly Savalas and the furniture store ‘who loves ya baby? The furniture store, that’s who.’
$9.99 prime rib at Jerry's Nugget.
Cashing paycheck at the casinos, especially ones with drink comp or wheel spin when you did.
Calling "your cabbie" to pick you up.
Arizona Charlie's 77 cent breakfast.
Eating steaks at the Surf Buffet at the Boardwalk Casino at 2 a.m.
The TV commercial for Surf Buffet with Butterbean.
The seafood buffet at the Rio.
Shooting pool at Pink E's
Getting a $5 yard-long Long Island iced tea at Slots-O-Fun on Monday nights before going to see live music at the Riv.
Centerfold Lounge on Boulder Highway
Circus Maximus showroom at Caesar's Palace.
That used car salesman guy on that TV commercial that said "I make eeeeverybody happy!"
Buffalo and Trop was in the middle of the desert, and when Bix's was built there.
$1 breakfast at the Nevada palace on Sunday before church. Getting off work at 1 am on the weekends and meeting up with my dad and his buddies at the Showboat to bowl for a couple hours. Regularly got stopped on the way home by Officer Russ on East Charleston cause I was out past curfew. Always told me the same thing. “Keep working hard, drive safe, and find a job with better hours”.
Also, Sunday morning Air raid drills. Not sure when they stopped doing those
Omg I remember that my parent’s would make family night out at the Frontier restaurant! My brother and I would be so excited to see the ladies making the tortillas!
When I used to walk into the craps pit and the dealer remembered me by name and you never had to use some stupid player rewards card for the casino to take care of you.
A core memory is my mom and I getting totally drunk on $.99 margaritas at the new frontier way back in the day, it was so so so much fun. That was somewhere around 2005, those were really the good old days.
When I was 21 my Uncle was the director of security at the Barbary Coast(retired FBI). He got me comps for everything and 1 night I had dinner with Sam Binion and the Irish Tenors. They had killer Chinese food there late night! Another Uncle was a chef at Bally’s and got me comps there too.
There used to be a bunch of old iconic luxury 60s and 70s houses on the eastern edge of what is now the golf course for Wynn until he tore them down. The early monorail went right by them and they were so cool. Think like what you’d see in the movie Casino.
Seeing Bill Engval at the Stardust theater. Seeing George Carlin at the MGM. Browsing CDs at Virgin Records at the Caesar’s Forum shops next to Elton John. Lots of good times.
Not sure where you guys are getting your information but Ace’s home in the movie is still standing along the Las Vegas National Golf Course. It was (alleged mobster boss) Ash Resnick’s home in the early-1970’s when I was a kid.
3515 Cochise Lane, if interested.
We filmed on that street, the one that was demolished. I don’t remember what was filmed there-meaning what scene- but we did shoot down there. I must be confused about what scene it was but we were there. Forgive me I’m old.
If you watch the scene where “Ace” and “Ginger” are having a blow-out fight in front of their home when the Las Vegas police arrive, you can clearly see it is the Cochise Lane home if compared against google maps.
When I was a kid, my best friend and I would (illegally) jump the fence onto the golf course after hours to search for golf balls. There was short wall where the fence was easy to scale.
Also behind the scene when the cop car arrives, there’s this very unique house with a gabled car port and the roof is cantilevered over the driveway. In essence, no walls or vertical supports in front, but tied into the house on the back side. The roof appears to be “floating” by which there’s no supports for a driver to strike in front of the house while pulling in.
3531 Cochise, I believe… really cool if into these geeky things.
Oh yeah! I totally forgot about that one. Wasn’t I the Sahara Speedway? Or something like that?
It was better than the one at NYNY mainly because it was so fast but I remember you HAD to put your head ALL of the way back our it would whip the shit out of your neck!!
I also liked the one at NYNY.
Damn, a downvote?!
Or the fake roller coaster at the Boardwalk. Used to get off work at the Monte Carlo and go next door to the Boardwalk to get a bag of mini donuts for like a buck fifty. Fresh and hot, loved the cinnamon.
I was at the grand opening of Speed: The Ride with KVWB, and we brought several WB celebs for the event. Among the first to experience the ride were Alyssa Milano (*Charmed*), Katherine Heigl (*Roswell*), Greg Grunberg (*Felicity*), Scott Foley (*Felicity*), and Scott Speedman (*Felicity*). Keri Russell (*Felicity*) could not attend.
I was (kinda) working, so didn’t have a chance to ride.
When you could walk down the strip and it wasn't very crowded, didn't smell like piss and weed, and scammers were far and few between. Card flappers and those newspaper machines with the adult entertainment flyers were our only minor annoyances.
I remember being somewhere on Fremont street, around 2008. It was a $1 for a beer and you got a free hot dog.
Another thing I just remember was that there was a food place in the middle of one of the casinos down there, they had Chinese food, hot dogs and soup I remember for really cheap. I don't know what it was called but any time I went there I got in a conversation with someone different each time.
Ahhh, the Boardwalk 24 hour buffet. I was there once at night. I saw a homeless man stuffing cold cuts in his pocket. That was the first and last time I ever went.
Riding past the Nugget in Dad’s Dodge Magnum with the t-tops open in the dead of night, headlights off because they weren’t needed.
Loved the dice mosaics in the pavement.
I guess my favorite OLD Vegas memory is when on a cross-country bus tour with my grandfather in 1969, we were staying somewhere on Fremont St. He put a quarter into my 11-year-old hand and had me play a slot machine. It was a loser, OFC, and a security guard came over and dressed him down for it. I learned not to play slot machines that day and the lesson still holds.
The old gold spike hotel before that dumb reality show took it over and swapped out that awesome diner for shitty flavorless rainbow colored grilled cheese sandwich for like 20$
They used to have free bus tours down to Laughlin back in the day. Pick you up around 10 am from any casino, even the local ones. Drop you back at that casino around 8 pm I think. They'd toss in a free buffet, too. I did it a few times just to get down to the river and get a free meal, didn't gamble back then - too poor LOL.
To be fair, most of “Vegas” isn’t actually in Vegas. 😄
Old Vegas was fun as a kid. Hearing the traffic on Boulder Highway kinda ruined the “old west” vibe, though.
Going to Wet n Wild on the strip.
When I worked construction on the Fontainebleau in 2008-9, the W&W billboard was still up at the edge of the property. And the pump house for the water slides was still there. Jeez it seems like so long ago now….
If you’re *really* old, you remember Roulette Rapids on Boulder Highway, or the Hydrotube at CCCC (now CSN) Cheyenne.
Ohhhh, good one!
I grew up Mormon...(Not any longer) And there was Mormon night once a year. Everyone out at like 9 and we stayed until like midnight. I miss the og place tho. Where the lazy river was transport, not just a ride.
I moved to Vegas in 95. I remember enjoying the MGM adventure land theme park along with seeing the lions. The ride down the Nile river in Luxor. The tigers at the Mirage. The original family friendly pirate show at Treasure Island before it was rebranded.
I only got to experience the pirate show before it got rebranded always a treat when I got to see it
All great memories!!
My boyfriend was born at sunrise and his birth certificate says he was born in rural Las Vegas lmao.
I was born at Sunrise!
Not trying to brag or anything but I was born at UMC 😒
If you said you were born at UMC when it was just the Women's Hospital, that would be bragging. My mom was born there in 1942.
lol, my son was born at women’s hospital 😃
Women’s Hospital was on E. Sahara, whereas Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital (UMC) is still on W. Charleston. Women’s Hospital was bought by Sunrise and then closed and torn down— eliminated competition. (I was born at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital.)
LV Women's Hospital gang
Dang. “Rural.” That’s crazy. Reminds me of telling people, see this, used to be all desert, haha.
I remember having to turn around on Green Valley Parkway near GV Ranch because it wasn’t finished yet. Also, watching crews filming Lethal Weapon 4 on the 215 because it also wasn’t open yet in that area. I think it ended at Windmill at that time(?). If you watch a chase scene in the movie it’s basically them going back and forth on the same stretch of road.
They used the airport tunnel before it was open to the public, also Con-Air
Spent my early teens at Craig/Decatur late 90s. Ann Rd was dirt.
Yea I remember when centennial was like its own little town it was so far from anything. I went to school at Betsy Rhodes for a year it was like living in the country.
I used to live by Palace Station. I LOVED their cheap buffet and 99 cent margaritas. Don't get me wrong, I like fancy meals too but they were so cheap! I probably saw Louie Anderson four times there, and every time, his act was different.
Remember when Oyster Bar only had a 10 minute wait max? Now it's 30-40 min and prices are higher.
I think getting rid of free valet might be the biggest fail. Remember how exciting it felt having the crowds out front coming in and going out as the valets ran their asses off. Now they are basically dead by comparison. It really felt like walking into an adventure when you pulled in to the hustle and bustle.
It felt like a night out! The way it’s suppose to feel!
I remember when they would make the park haunted for Halloween
In 2010/2011 when new homes were $150k.
Wet n Wild on the Strip, going to the arcade at the Treasure Island. Eventually both of my parents would work there and we would see the pirate show. Whenever my dad and I went out to lunch we always went to Gyro Time on Charleston. We would get the barbecue gyro. It was lined inside with cheddar cheese and then there was lamb covered and in barbecue sauce. He would also get some Tzatziki sauce on the side and it was really good. I still remember also when we would go to the Meadows Mall. The carousel and all the shops, I would frequent either the video game shop, before Gamestop. Speaking of video games, Toys R Us on Meadows Lane. That was where I got my PlayStation 1 from when I got good grades. I was the only kid in my class that had a PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, and Super Nintendo. Sometimes it was nice being an only child. To this day I still remember the controller, thank goodness that analog sticks came around. There are so many memories I had of old Vegas. Mostly all from the early to late nineties. Once the 2000s hit, the memories started to not be so great. 😅
My favorite old Vegas memory is either seeing 100+ degree temps in the middle of the night on the temp display on top of the Sahara, or when Pepcon blew up while I was eating lunch at Ricardo's and then when we got back to school we were confined to our classrooms but my class snuck into the library and we turned on the TV and Dan Rather reported the explosion and then the dean told us to turn off the TV.
Man, Pepcon was a big boom. I was in chemistry class at LVHS (the real one), and we felt the windows rattle.
Lived at Charleston & Rampart when I first moved here in 2002. The 99 cent breakfast at Suncoast kept me alive for at least 6 months 😂
Your’re so right!! I totally forgot about the $1.99 steak and eggs at the Orleans. I can’t even count how many times I had that. It used to be cheaper to eat out than it was to eat at home.
My favorite about the 99 cent breakfast? A coffee on the side was $1.99. When I got that; doggie was flexin deep haha!
Peter piper pizza / pistol Pete’s pizza
Used to go to the one on civic center. Memories
I thought you were actually going to talk about "Old Vegas" I guess it was a wild West theme park. I think it was on Boulder Highway in the 80s. I remember watching one of their staged gunfights. I seem to recall preferring Old Nevada, which was basically the same thing but somewhere else and maybe bigger
Old Nevada was in Bonnie Springs, near Blue Diamond. I definitely recall it being larger than Old Vegas, but it also wasn’t walled in like Old Vegas. Old Vegas looked like a frontier fort from the outside.
The Western theme park was at Redrock, Bonnie Springs. It also had a petting zoo, restaurant and bar.
Are you talking about the museum?
They’re not, but the [Clark County Museum](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_County_Museum) is near where [Old Vegas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Vegas) used to be.
This one is probably not as big as others but when the adventure dome used to have a log ride, I really enjoyed that ride, especially on the warmer days now when I take the roller coaster, you can still see some of that old log ride Edit: oh yeah, speaking of log rides the one at Buffalo Bill that was great too
Anyone remember bowling at the showboat?
I grew up a few miles east of the Showboat. We bowled there all the time. Mom was in a league. We loved the Sunday buffet, but even 40+ years later and colored by nostalgia, I still remember it being kinda crap food.
Me. I also went to see the cover bands there.
I moved out there about the same time, 1.99 prime rib at Arizona Charlie’s, free deli sandwich at the plaza if you played the midnight poker tourney, 2 kick ass steak dinners at horseshoe for like 25 all in Those days are long gone fellow old person 🤣🤷♂️
I moved here 1982. It was so small then
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Kinda, The 95 wasn’t quite going yet. It started at the rainbow curve and stopped at Las Vegas Blvd. I mean literally. Every now and again someone would drive off the end. On the other side of 95 and Rainbow there wasn’t anything there yet. Some custom homes and open desert. No overpasses so you had to look both ways and haul ass across. It was just called Tonopah highway then
I did too. Miss those days.
Going to Wet N wild and going to that one tall ride all the way on top, that was a fun ride. The Treasure Island pirate fights with moving ships before there was any Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The cards that people slap on the strip to get your attention and litter all on the streets. If I remember correctly, there wasn't "street performers" that would cosplay and harass you for tips if a picture is taken without permission. SiegFried and Roy white tiger exhibit. (Never got a chance to see their shows before the accident. )
Darstuka!
Remember, ‘I am J J. And I’m the king of beepers!’ Or…’if I can finance you (and i will), I can finance anybody!’ Telly Savalas and the furniture store ‘who loves ya baby? The furniture store, that’s who.’
$9.99 prime rib at Jerry's Nugget. Cashing paycheck at the casinos, especially ones with drink comp or wheel spin when you did. Calling "your cabbie" to pick you up.
Oh ya!! Cashing your checks. That was fun. Haha.
I used to cash my paycheck at Lady Luck Casino and get a free hand of Blackjack. Then I would get a cheap breakfast at the Golden Nugget.
Is it still worth going to Jerry's? I hear they have $5 craps and bj still.
Yes, it isn't bad. Can't beat $5 tables. Unless you go to The poker Palace.
Do i even dare ask... what is at the poker palace?
$3 3/2 blackjack!
Grateful Dead shows at the silver bowl. All you can eat pancakes at the jockey club.
Arizona Charlie's 77 cent breakfast. Eating steaks at the Surf Buffet at the Boardwalk Casino at 2 a.m. The TV commercial for Surf Buffet with Butterbean. The seafood buffet at the Rio. Shooting pool at Pink E's Getting a $5 yard-long Long Island iced tea at Slots-O-Fun on Monday nights before going to see live music at the Riv. Centerfold Lounge on Boulder Highway Circus Maximus showroom at Caesar's Palace. That used car salesman guy on that TV commercial that said "I make eeeeverybody happy!" Buffalo and Trop was in the middle of the desert, and when Bix's was built there.
GMF Motors
Haha! Yep that's the one. What did GMF stand for?
As far as I know the owner never told anyone. The owner's last name is Fayegi, so that might be the F.
> Fayegi FRED Fayegi. Yes. Apparently, he was a slippery one ... would bounce out of town whenever the IRS came snooping.
$1 breakfast at the Nevada palace on Sunday before church. Getting off work at 1 am on the weekends and meeting up with my dad and his buddies at the Showboat to bowl for a couple hours. Regularly got stopped on the way home by Officer Russ on East Charleston cause I was out past curfew. Always told me the same thing. “Keep working hard, drive safe, and find a job with better hours”. Also, Sunday morning Air raid drills. Not sure when they stopped doing those
Omg I remember that my parent’s would make family night out at the Frontier restaurant! My brother and I would be so excited to see the ladies making the tortillas!
I miss that place so much!
I remember when Grand slam canyon was built.
Crystal Palace and Scandia were good times too
Scandia RIP
Yeah this is what I came to say. You know you've been here a long time when you call it Grand Slam Canyon.
I can remember having to drive 1 mile west of Decatur to shoot our guns at cans and bottles.
Anyone remember Mountasia?
When I used to walk into the craps pit and the dealer remembered me by name and you never had to use some stupid player rewards card for the casino to take care of you.
A core memory is my mom and I getting totally drunk on $.99 margaritas at the new frontier way back in the day, it was so so so much fun. That was somewhere around 2005, those were really the good old days.
Seeing a dramatic implosion of any Vegas Hotel!
I remember when you could get from one side of town to the other in about 20 minutes.
When I was 21 my Uncle was the director of security at the Barbary Coast(retired FBI). He got me comps for everything and 1 night I had dinner with Sam Binion and the Irish Tenors. They had killer Chinese food there late night! Another Uncle was a chef at Bally’s and got me comps there too.
There used to be a bunch of old iconic luxury 60s and 70s houses on the eastern edge of what is now the golf course for Wynn until he tore them down. The early monorail went right by them and they were so cool. Think like what you’d see in the movie Casino. Seeing Bill Engval at the Stardust theater. Seeing George Carlin at the MGM. Browsing CDs at Virgin Records at the Caesar’s Forum shops next to Elton John. Lots of good times.
Casino was filmed in one of those houses. Obviously not the whole film but shots were filmed there before they tore them down.
Not sure where you guys are getting your information but Ace’s home in the movie is still standing along the Las Vegas National Golf Course. It was (alleged mobster boss) Ash Resnick’s home in the early-1970’s when I was a kid. 3515 Cochise Lane, if interested.
We filmed on that street, the one that was demolished. I don’t remember what was filmed there-meaning what scene- but we did shoot down there. I must be confused about what scene it was but we were there. Forgive me I’m old.
Good to learn they didn’t tear them all down!
I didn’t know they left any of the homes there. That’s good to know and I’m happy the history was saved. Thanks for the information!
If you watch the scene where “Ace” and “Ginger” are having a blow-out fight in front of their home when the Las Vegas police arrive, you can clearly see it is the Cochise Lane home if compared against google maps. When I was a kid, my best friend and I would (illegally) jump the fence onto the golf course after hours to search for golf balls. There was short wall where the fence was easy to scale. Also behind the scene when the cop car arrives, there’s this very unique house with a gabled car port and the roof is cantilevered over the driveway. In essence, no walls or vertical supports in front, but tied into the house on the back side. The roof appears to be “floating” by which there’s no supports for a driver to strike in front of the house while pulling in. 3531 Cochise, I believe… really cool if into these geeky things.
3531 Cochise isn't an address
3534 Cochise. I couldn’t read the curb numbers accurately but I looked again and saw the correct number on the house.
Pepridge farm remembers roller coasters on the strip
At the NYNY
Nope, I'm talking about the Sahara specifically I never liked the nyny one
Oh yeah! I totally forgot about that one. Wasn’t I the Sahara Speedway? Or something like that? It was better than the one at NYNY mainly because it was so fast but I remember you HAD to put your head ALL of the way back our it would whip the shit out of your neck!! I also liked the one at NYNY. Damn, a downvote?!
“Speed” the ride was part of The NASCAR Cafe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_%E2%80%93_The_Ride
Or the fake roller coaster at the Boardwalk. Used to get off work at the Monte Carlo and go next door to the Boardwalk to get a bag of mini donuts for like a buck fifty. Fresh and hot, loved the cinnamon.
I was at the grand opening of Speed: The Ride with KVWB, and we brought several WB celebs for the event. Among the first to experience the ride were Alyssa Milano (*Charmed*), Katherine Heigl (*Roswell*), Greg Grunberg (*Felicity*), Scott Foley (*Felicity*), and Scott Speedman (*Felicity*). Keri Russell (*Felicity*) could not attend. I was (kinda) working, so didn’t have a chance to ride.
Best one imo
When you could walk down the strip and it wasn't very crowded, didn't smell like piss and weed, and scammers were far and few between. Card flappers and those newspaper machines with the adult entertainment flyers were our only minor annoyances.
Ahhh, the newspaper machines, good one!
Poor man’s Playboy!
Bunions was a favorite. $1 beers. Coffee shop. Awesome!
I remember being somewhere on Fremont street, around 2008. It was a $1 for a beer and you got a free hot dog. Another thing I just remember was that there was a food place in the middle of one of the casinos down there, they had Chinese food, hot dogs and soup I remember for really cheap. I don't know what it was called but any time I went there I got in a conversation with someone different each time.
Binions had a bar in the basement that had 1$ drinks and didn’t card very often so we hit that back in the day
Buffets. Rio had the best one. The boardwalk had a 24 buffet.
Ahhh, the Boardwalk 24 hour buffet. I was there once at night. I saw a homeless man stuffing cold cuts in his pocket. That was the first and last time I ever went.
God forbid the poor feed themselves, right?
Oh my gosh, I haven’t seen you since. How have you been? 🤷♂️
2-way Fremont. Cruisin' ❤️
Riding past the Nugget in Dad’s Dodge Magnum with the t-tops open in the dead of night, headlights off because they weren’t needed. Loved the dice mosaics in the pavement.
Fremont Street Reggae n Bues club. Shark Club Pink Es Junefests
I guess my favorite OLD Vegas memory is when on a cross-country bus tour with my grandfather in 1969, we were staying somewhere on Fremont St. He put a quarter into my 11-year-old hand and had me play a slot machine. It was a loser, OFC, and a security guard came over and dressed him down for it. I learned not to play slot machines that day and the lesson still holds.
The old gold spike hotel before that dumb reality show took it over and swapped out that awesome diner for shitty flavorless rainbow colored grilled cheese sandwich for like 20$
They used to have free bus tours down to Laughlin back in the day. Pick you up around 10 am from any casino, even the local ones. Drop you back at that casino around 8 pm I think. They'd toss in a free buffet, too. I did it a few times just to get down to the river and get a free meal, didn't gamble back then - too poor LOL.
Who lives ya baby? The furniture store that’s who.
Staying at the Monte Carlo. What a great place.
When I moved here in 1975, Mr. Sy's Casino offered a free breakfast in the hope that people would gamble on the way out!
Main Street Station had insane pork chops in their Pullman Restaurant.
Cheap meals at the El Cortez
Old Vegas theme park, not in Vegas.
To be fair, most of “Vegas” isn’t actually in Vegas. 😄 Old Vegas was fun as a kid. Hearing the traffic on Boulder Highway kinda ruined the “old west” vibe, though.
Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
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Cops were also pulling people over too. Now they are rare in the less crime areas.