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Random Vegas
In 1985, Wet n’ Wild opened a 27 acre water park on the strip just south of Sahara. It closed in 2004
TwitPic of the week
It’s the same sign that won last week with just a different perspective, shared by@Summacorp. The infamous Stardust marquee in all her glory, 188 feet tall, the tallest in the world for a time. It somehow sums up Vegas with the image. The only sign more recognizable to Vegas is the Welcome sign
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Caesars Renovations
Circa 2
MGM Developments
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Random Vegas
The MGM Grand was built in 1993 on top of the existing 714 room Marina hotel which was built in 1975 (@vegas_only)
TwitPic of the week
It’s a tattoo worthy sign of Las Vegas’ past up close and interrupting your line of site. @summacorp shared The Stardust shower of stars marquee, up close. Only in Vegas did Texaco photo bomb this guy. But still, that sign with her Electra Jag font. I’m not sure what is more magical, seeing the sign up close or from far away. Either way this looker is definitely on the list of tattoos I’m considering having.
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Elaine Wynn Passes
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It’s a Vegas icon, even to this day. The Sands presided over the golden age of Las Vegas, both in entertainment and in the zeitgeist. When you think of cool you think of the Rat Pack at the Sands. It’s a Vegas legend that actually only lasted a month but the legend lived on far beyond the run of shows. And yet with all her history she wasn’t able to keep up with the competition and had to be imploded to make way for the future. But no matter how successful her new incarnation is she will never equal the mythic status achieved by the Sands.
If your interested in learning more about the Sands, check out the book At The Sands
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Random Vegas
People in India believe if you don’t place a wager during the Diwali Holiday, you will be reincarnated as a Donkey.
TwitPic of the week
Unique views is always the way to our hearts when it comes to Twitpic of the Week. This time its apparently how Vegas shuts down roads for events like New Years and the Rock and Roll Marathon. But more than that, we get the magic of reflection. Since this photo was taken at night from the overpass crossing Flamingo Rd, we catch a glimpse of the properties lit up behind the photographer. Specifically we see the reflections of Caesars Palace and Bellagio. It makes it look like, if you were looking east of the strip at Las Vegas Blvd and Flamingo, Caesars Palace is behind Cromwell and Bellagio is next door to Horseshoe. Unintended consequences once again makes art. We celebrate that with this selection, shared by @LasVegasLocally
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Wynn 20th Anniversary
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Random Vegas
The official temperatures in Vegas on Wednesday, March 26th was 90 degrees. It’s the 5th earliest 90-degree day in recorded history. (LasVegasLocally)
TwitPic of the week
@Summacorp shared a different strip for a different time in this week’s winner. North strip, today a collection of condos and properties too far removed from the rest of the strip was once densely populated. Properties like the Frontier, Stardust, Silver City, Riviera, Silverbird and Sahara all called it home. Today, the only thing missing is Riviera and Frontier. The rest have been replaced. Stardust is now Resorts World, the Silverbird is now Fontainebleau and without Wet and Wild water park you realize, Sahara has always lived on an island. For those of you that don’t know, we don’t typically report on anything coming out of Sahara because they once sued Vital Vegas for reporting a rumor that the propety was for sale. Vital Vegas won the suit but the whole thing turned us off of doing anything related to Sahara which is disappointing considering her history as a property.
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Grand Prix Plaza Delay
Fertitta resigning
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Random Vegas
In a deck of playing cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache (VitalVegas)
TwitPic of the week
This was a winner the moment I saw it, shared by @_GrandPaD. The installation of the Stardust’s super pylon, the shower of stars marquee standing a world record breaking 188 feet tall. An icon on the Vegas strip. Sadly and yet hopefully, her remains lay at the Neon Museum. While it is unlike that they will ever reassemble it one can dream that one day she will sparkle again.
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2024 Visitors Profile Study
Nickel and Dimed Vegas
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Random Vegas
The 2024 F1 race drew 306,000 people, 175,000 unique visitors to Vegas. They spent an average of $2,400 per person excluding ticket costs. The event generated $45 million in Tax revenues. (@LasVegasLocally)
TwitPic of the week
It’s the future of Vegas casino/resorts, boutique. Mega Resorts are too expensive to build and the market is currently over saturated with them. Here, Las_When shows us Barbary Coast in the mid 90s after it underwent a short-lived paint job converting it to white. Kind of reminds me when TI was painted white for a while. We celebrate this picture this week as once again news of a rebranding has been reported. While some may consider it a step back one of the benefits of a boutique hotel is how relatively quickly and inexpensively you can refurb the space. We expect this will not be the last time this hotel/casino will be rebranded.
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Cromwell Rebranding
360 Patreon
Rose.Rabbit.Lie. Returns
Cousin Vito's Casino
Talk About Las Vegas with Ira
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Random Vegas
Wynn’s Le Jardin project planned for Atlantic City just before Mirage Resorts merged with MGM was referred to as a supped-up Mirage with an estimated $1.35 billion price tag
TwitPic of the week
I miss the days when Vegas marquee signage had to be constructed out of giant pieces of steel and crafted into works of art. There was time when marquees were as unique as the properties they represented. Back when lightbulbs told stories and readerboards told all. The International, the city’s first megaresort with over 1500 rooms opened as the largest resort in the world. And with it came an equally large marquee sign shared by @Sclark2636 at its most iconic, with Elvis’ name blasted across it and with the International tower in the background.
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Book Update
360 Vegas Vacation 15 RSVP
Zero Bond Social Club
Cherry Rewards
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Random Vegas
March 19th, 1931, the state of Nevada re-legalized gambling in an attempt to recover from the great depression
TwitPic of the week
It’s 1988 and I’m currently in grade school while this marvelous display of Vegas existed. On the left we see the Desert Inn, all shinny after her exterior renovation. Just beyond that is the Sands and in the distance we see Caesars Palace. Which brings us across the street to see the Frontier and in front of that is the Silver Slipper. This is the view south of the Stardust. It’s the eve of the Mirage opening which would change everything and caused the eventual demise of all these properties. Accept Caesars but she would be radically transformed in a decades time. Another great pic from @Summacorp
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TravelZork.com
Amplified Coming
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Random Vegas
There are an average of 315 weddings per day in Vegas (@vegas_only)
TwitPic of the week
It’s a glorious sign that is given depth and size when you see people standing next to it, shared by @Vegas_Visual. The Mint sign, one of the all-time great neon signs in Las Vegas. It runs a close second of the Dune turret marquee as those most missed from the landscape. The Mint was absorbed into Binion’s Horseshoe in 1989. A part of the sign still exists to this day, viewable from the staircase up to Whiskey Liquor up. Unfortunately, the Neon Museum wasn’t established until 1996 so it wasn’t saved for posterity.
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360 Vegas Book Out
Backstreet Boys Sphere Residency
Flamingo New Go Pool Plans
Alexxa @Paris
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Random Vegas
In 2024, it’s reported that at least 16 people experienced a malfunction while playing a slot machine nullifying a jackpot. As a result, it’s projected that $1.3 million was lost.
TwitPic of the week
Something about grass in the desert just seems lush, high end. Probably because it doesn’t exist in nature so rich people will it to survive in the desert climate. Here we see it at classic Caesars Palace sporting said vegetation thanks to @Vegas_Visual. I’m surprised more chairs aren’t occupying the space. You would think that would be prime real estate. I can’t stop staring at those Sarno blocks. While I think the property looks better today, I can’t help but romanticize what she used to look like.
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360 Book Update
Wrestlemania Vegas
Sphere of Oz
Museum of Ice Cream
El Cortez Renovation
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Random Vegas
Before he designed Bellagio, Wynn had fully developed, different plans for the land formerly home to the Dunes.
Plans were to build a boutique hotel with intimate spaces, 2 hotel towers, one with 230 suites and two 7-story towers housing 461 rooms each
He even planned to leave room for two future towers to be built
Wynn believe if he pulled this off, it would be the death of the mega resort
Wynn’s creative side was unsatisfied and after some guidance, scrapped them and started over with plans to reinvent the game again
TwitPic of the week
There was time when north strip was the center of the action in Las Vegas. Desert Inn, Frontier, Silver Slipper, Stardust, Silver City, Riviera, El Rancho, Slots A Fun, Circus Circus and the Sahara lorded over the area for decades. Today it's trying to resurrect its glory days with new additions Resorts World and Fontainebleau, but the location is currently a liability. This week we get a snapshot of the area as it existed in 1985 thanks to @_GrandPaD and comparing the density with today’s landscape is almost an unfair comparison. Today large chunks of land exist in between properties making it unappealing to pedestrian traffic. Specifically, the area is challenged by the still vacant lots that are the Frontier and Riviera. The former a casualty of the real estate explosion the strip underwent in the early 2000s and the later another victim of the ever-growing reach of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Crystal ball time, will north strip ever be where the center of the action is again? It isn’t likely even once people build on these parcels but that doesn’t mean it can’t become another hub of activity for the city that continues to evolve at all costs.
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360 Vegas Vacation 15 Details
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Random Vegas
Despite using the motto “Est. 1952”, Atomic Liquors didn’t open until April 17th, 1954 (@summacorp)
TwitPic of the week
It’s one of the last super pylons in operation in Vegas and one of the best uses of neon ever. The Rio marquee is a gem that should be celebrated by all. Thankfully new ownership restored it and incorporated LED into the sign instead of replacing it with a large square TV screen as has become the norm in the Vegas skyline. This week’s winner by @Summacorp is not of the recently refurbed sign but of the classic sign with a readerboard. Regardless its a spectacular sign of animated neon that should be appreciated while we have it.
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Book Update
War Machine Returns
7 Shows to see in 2025
MGM Renovations
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Random Vegas
While down compared to the record-shattering levels tied to last year's inaugural F1 race, monthly ADR this year saw the 2nd highest record for the month of November. (@MeltzVegas)
TwitPic of the week
It’s an iconic look at Caesars Palace, with the Sarno blocks lit up in teal shared by @LasVegasLocally. It’s at least 1989 because the Mirage is open. This aesthetic would be replaced with the more authentic Greco roman architecture the property has today, inspired by the design used on the Palace tower, which opened in 1998. But this one has a charm to it. I mean how many properties go through an enhanced retheming. Caesars is an iconic brand around the world and both of her iterations are deserving of the designation.
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CyberTruck Attack
Death by Slot
Gaming Revenue
King’s Bar Temporary Closing
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Random Vegas
Although argon gas was used as often as neon, the lighting method assumed the name “neon” to refer to the light produced by either gas. (Spectacular – A History of Las Vegas Neon)
TwitPic of the week
It’s the heart of the strip that simultaneously has the best view in all of Vegas available to guests of the north facing strip at Cosmopolitan, shared by @Vegas_Visual. This is a picture that often gets submitted for Twitpic of the week but often gets passed over because I see this view all the time. And while it is fabulous, it can’t win every week. But this week’s photo, taken in what looks like panorama captures the whole view as the eye gets to see it with Cosmopolitan, Bellagio and Caesars Augustus and Octavious towers in the shot. I love everything about this picture and the real-life trek that this is this area of the strip.
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New Years Fireworks
New in 2025
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Random Vegas
Downtown Las Vegas has 6 of the world’s largest. (Vegasexperience.com)
World’s largest slot machine in Slotzillla (also the busiest and most successful urban zipline in the world)
World’s largest keno board at 100 feet long outside of the D,
World’s largest pint glass at Hennessey’s Tavern at 85 feet tall
World’s largest working fire hydrant at 15 foot tall on Fremont East, across from the Western
World’s largest fire-breathing praying mantis at Container Park
World’s largest mechanical neon sign is Vegas Vic at 40 feet tall, although his mechanical parts haven’t worked since 1991
TwitPic of the week
The year is 1964 and the Dunes is rocking in all her glory in the arial photo shared by@summacorp. Aside from the Diamond of the Dunes hotel tower and the turret marquee the thing that really gets my attention here are all the cars parked right up front. Something that used to be common on the strip when the properties primarily catered to automobile visitors. There are still remnants of this time in Vegas today just repurposed. I’m thinking specifically about Horseshoe and Caesars Palace. It’s a time in Vegas we are fond of because it inspired all the classic super pylon marquees we know and love.
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360 Vegas Book Update
El Cortez’s $20 million refresh
FTC Bans “Junk Fees”
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Random Vegas
Las Vegas is the number 1 wedding destination in the US and the 2nd in the world behind Istanbul.
TwitPic of the week
It’s a time whose lamentation has been well documented on this show. The evolution of Fremont St into the Fremont St Experience, shown here, in development by @Summacorp. Say what you will about the results, progress is sexy. Here we see the roads tore up as they are redeveloped into pedestrian walkways. Like getting a room with a view of the AC units, I appreciate these behind the scenes glimpses of progress in motion. Evolution is what made this city the place it is today and development captures that journey.
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360 Book Update
F1 in Vegas
Murrenization Returns
Stratosphere Projection Mapping
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Random Vegas
It cost the Harris/Walz campaign $900,000 to advertise on the sphere for a week (@_GrandPaD)
TwitPic of the week
Black and white photography is simply beautiful and inspires thought. This week’s winner by @Vegas_Visual shows off the Dunes in all her glory including the turret marquee, the Diamond of the Dunes hotel tower and the Dome of the Sea restaurant in stunning black and white. While a simple google search would reveal what the place looked like in color it’s more fun to imagine it. Truth is color takes some of the romance out of it, not like the elegance of black and white.
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360 Vegas Book Update
Senor Frogs Closing
Dirtiest Casinos
Excalibur Wrongful Death
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