photos of classic Las Vegas

[ML Dog]

Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas use to provide free flights from L.A. to Vegas, cocktail in every hand and fashion models walking the aisles.


For $27.50, you would get a deluxe room, bottle of champagne and $5 in chips for the casino. The flights were popular. More visitors were arriving at McCarran terminal by the Hacienda’s fleet of 30 planes than all the commercial airlines combined. This led to a dispute with the Civil Aeronautics Board, which officially stopped the flights in 1962.

Photos by Grey Villet for Life, 1957.

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[texansfan]

Love seeing all these old pics. My Dad always stayed at the Stardust, and when I started going in the 80's, that's where I always stayed. They always treated me well and I loved gambling there.

 

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[ML Dog]

Love seeing all these old pics. My Dad always stayed at the Stardust, and when I started going in the 80's, that's where I always stayed. They always treated me well and I loved gambling there.

Legendary for the Handicapping education that was available there from the Old Timers that basically lived in the book at Stardust. "College of Sports Betting" really. Spent Sundays most generally at Imperial Palace...across the street IIRC.

 

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[5teamparlay]

---------------the glass pool

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Thanks for the memories.......

Only two left....Circus Circus and The Tropicana......

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Pierros right across the street and right next to the Las Vegas Hilton......and down the street from the Paddlewheel.......continue up the street and run right into the Stardust........

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas use to provide free flights from L.A. to Vegas, cocktail in every hand and fashion models walking the aisles.


For $27.50, you would get a deluxe room, bottle of champagne and $5 in chips for the casino. The flights were popular. More visitors were arriving at McCarran terminal by the Hacienda’s fleet of 30 planes than all the commercial airlines combined. This led to a dispute with the Civil Aeronautics Board, which officially stopped the flights in 1962.

Photos by Grey Villet for Life, 1957.

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And if the tables were hot and the players won, the flight back was cancelled and the patrons were given free rooms......the hotel knew that the money was coming back......favorite trick of the Dunes and Sands......

 

[ML Dog]

Las Vegas Strip, 1985.

They would all come down in the next 10-15 years: Castaways, Desert Inn, El Rancho, Vegas World, along with the motels and gas stations.

Frontier, Stardust and Desert Inn came next.

Riviera manages to hold on but not for long. The 60-year-old Strip resort Riviera will be closed on May 4 2015 then demolished by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, with the site being used for planned convention center expansion activities.

 

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[sharky99]

Dont get tired of seeing these old pics, thanks for posting

 

[ML Dog]

I wonder what type of behavior forced an establishment to get a sign like this:

 

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[VIEJODINOSAUR]

One of the best jobs I have ever had was delivering beer in Las Vegas from 80-84.....Local 14

Decauter was practically the last cross street going west and there was hardly any Green Valley to the east....

Only 285,000 people back then....

 

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