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Author | : Lynn M. Zook |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738569734 |
Everyone thinks they know the story of Las Vegas: the showgirls, the gambling, the mob. But Las Vegas has always been much more. Families have lived here since its founding in 1905. After 1931, legalized gaming became the big tourist draw, and following World War II, the town began to market itself as ?America’s Playground.? That is when the famed Las Vegas Strip came into its own and downtown was dubbed ?Glitter Gulch.? These vintage postcards show how Las Vegas evolved from a dusty railroad town into the ?Entertainment Capital of the World,? while remaining a city filled with families and pioneering souls.
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Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Las Vegas (Nev.) |
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Author | : Robin Ducharme |
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Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Las Vegas (Nev.) |
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Author | : Gary P. BeDunnah |
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Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Las Vegas (Nev.) |
ISBN | : 9780913205136 |
Author | : Patricia Holland |
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Las Vegas (Nev.) |
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Author | : Joan Burkhart Whitely |
Publisher | : Stephens Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Las Vegas (Nev.) |
ISBN | : 1932173323 |
The Las Vegas we know was conceived -- if anybody really conceived it -- in 1931, when Nevada liberalised its divorce and gambling laws, which would ultimately transform the city into America's playground for grown-ups. It was also the year an unprecedented engineering project began, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas was still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and sometimes their own whiskey. The author, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to help capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbours took care of each other, not merely because no one else would, but because it was their hometown, and they cared.
Author | : Stanley W. Paher |
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Release | : 1971-11 |
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ISBN | : 9780913814741 |
Author | : Ralph O. Patt |
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Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Artificial groundwater recharge |
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Author | : Lynn M. Zook |
Publisher | : America Through Time |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781634990677 |
Everyone thinks they know the history of the Las Vegas Strip. But the real story is both fascinating and not well known. What was there before the Bellagio, the Wynn, the Venetian, or those empty plots of land that look out of place? Why is the Flamingo one of the oldest and most surviving hotels on the boulevard? From conception to implosion, you get the detailed histories of the hotels built during those formative years, including the El Rancho Vegas, Hotel Last Frontier, Flamingo, Thunderbird, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, Sahara, Sands, Royal Nevada, Riviera, and the Dunes. Included in these histories are architectural designs, the neon signage, and how each of the hotels evolved. This book also includes rarely seen, historic imagery. The dreamers, who saw the future like few others and who built these hotels, helped turn a five-mile stretch of blacktop highway into the Entertainment Capital of the World. This is the story of the first twenty-five years of the Classic Las Vegas Strip--how it began, and how it grew.
Author | : Alex Krieger |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674246454 |
A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America’s leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment. The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal—one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare—and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas. Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.