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Greetings from Lady Luck. Customer postcards, 1970s.

“In the 1970s, I was working as a change boy at the old Lady Luck, just a converted L-shaped strip mall, and it was the asshole of the city. It was filthy and it was just a dive, an absolute dive, but tha...


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Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1986

Views from Plaza Hotel. Photos by Blanton Owen, Nevada Arts Council, Folklife Archives


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Fremont St, Las Vegas, June 1986. Under the marquee of Sassy Sally’s. Cosmo’s Restaurant was below the casino in a space that was once a nightclub. Photo from Gerrie Vers...


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Four Queens, corner of Fremont & 3rd St, 1986

Photo by R. A. Young


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Las Vegas Strip, August 1971

Adjacent to the Sands was the Carousel Motel, a motel-store property and perhaps the ugliest structure on the Strip. For over 50 years it was positioned out of most tourist photos. 

Timeline.

‘42: Opened as Park Lane Motel, an 8-unit auto court, by Theodore “Ted” Couch. '49: A store is built in front of Pa...

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