On Nov. 15, 1973, Las Vegas’ world-renowned hotel-casinos switched off nearly all their famous signs and “plunged neon city into an unnatural and spooky darkness,” the Las Vegas Review ...
Las Vegas has mastered the art of tearing down its past to make room for the latest. So what is the next chapter?
But it wasn’t always this way. For roughly the first 20 years of the city’s existence, there was no neon. Neon signs came to Las Vegas in the late 1920s, according to Emily Fellmer, senior ...
The original Dunes sign, along with its casino ... He hopes to return to Las Vegas next summer with a re-creation of Vegas Vic, the well-known neon cowboy sign that stands above Fremont Street ...
“Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas”—the peculiar kingdom ... s formation to light (literally). Displaying neon signs from Vegas’s earliest casinos, shows, and landmarks, the museum traces ...
"Founded in 1996, the Neon Museum is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, studying and exhibiting iconic Las Vegas signs for educational, historic, arts and ...
Neon is nothing new in America's Playground: Hotels, bars and casinos have been luring ... in learning more about the city’s iconic signs and Las Vegas history in general, consider a visit ...