Photo of The Las Vegas Strip Advertising Land For Sale Before Hotels Were Built - 1955
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fuzzybuddy
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I moved to N.E. Pennsylvania 30 years ago. It was the sticks- after 10 PM, you couldn't buy gas till 7 AM. It's still the sticks, but people have been building and building. I can drive down any road, and almost every house/business wasn't here, when I moved here. We are now part of the huge mega- Metro New York . And that's only in 30 years.
Either they got the date wrong on my photo or this one. The cars in your photo look newer than the 50's. Hard to tell, but they look more like the 60's.
Well history shows The Rat Pack in Vegas in the 50's ...No? ... at the Sands, Stardust
Sinatra performed his first gig in Las Vegas in September 1951, at the Desert Inn. But it was at the Sands Hotel and Casino, the seventh resort to open on The Strip, where Sinatra and the Rat Pack would become headliners.
https://www.biography.com/news/the-rat-pack-transformed-las-vegas
Sinatra performed his first gig in Las Vegas in September 1951, at the Desert Inn. But it was at the Sands Hotel and Casino, the seventh resort to open on The Strip, where Sinatra and the Rat Pack would become headliners.
https://www.biography.com/news/the-rat-pack-transformed-las-vegas
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NorthernLight
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Some really big cars, some not so big. Could be late 50s.
Alligatorob
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I think your photo is real:
The photo was taken by Loomis Dean in May/June 1955, and was published in the 6/20/55 issue of LIFE magazine captioned, “Asking price for property reflects high-pitched optimism in Las Vegas.” The $3M price was high enough to capture the photographer’s attention and it summarized the theme of the story: “Is the boom overextended? Las Vegas pushes its luck.”
https://vintagelasvegas.com/post/662316149509406720/hotel-site-for-sale