What was once is no more: Las Vegas 1990 - Page 2

LosAngelesSportsFan · #21 Posted **Dec 17, 2009, 5:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by glowrock

I believe that's the main entrance into McCarran Airport, LosAngelesSportsFan, not a freeway per say. I think that's the Paradise Road entrance, which I'm not sure if it's still landscaped that way or not right now.

Aaron (Glowrock)

oh ok, thanks for the correction. im always too twisted when i go to mccarran to notice. the funny thing is i was there three days ago.

arbeiter · #22 Posted **Dec 17, 2009, 6:51 AM**

The photos aren't bad for a 13 year old. I kind of like the slightly washed out look that makes it look like 1979 and not 1990.

LMich · #23 Posted **Dec 17, 2009, 11:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by glowrock

Both are still there. Flamingo is no longer a Hilton, but it's still doing well, and has been recently updated. Barbary Coast is now Bill's Gamling Hal, and it looks pretty much how it did 20 years ago.

Aaron (Glowrock)

It blows my mind that Barbary Coast has dodged the wrecking ball. Las Vegas has become the type of city where some of these mega-resorts are being literally built around some of the older developments, case in point the Cosmopolitan Resort (still under construction after having run into so many problems it's not even funny) is built around the Jockey Club because they refused to sell for the price Cosmo was looking for.

glowrock · #24 Posted **Dec 17, 2009, 4:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by LMich

It blows my mind that Barbary Coast has dodged the wrecking ball. Las Vegas has become the type of city where some of these mega-resorts are being literally built around some of the older developments, case in point the Cosmopolitan Resort (still under construction after having run into so many problems it's not even funny) is built around the Jockey Club because they refused to sell for the price Cosmo was looking for.

It's because Barbary Coast (Bill's Gambling Hall) is on a VERY small lot, LMich. If and when the Flamingo ever gets leveled (probably not!), then it will go down as well, given it's located adjacent to the Flamingo. I still bet that the Tropicana is the next to go, but hearing the Sahara's plans to close two of its three towers says "Demolish me next!" to me!

The problem is that The Strip is now basically ending at Wynn/Encore. No need to go up to Sahara, Riviera, or Circus Circus. If and when the Echelon development ever gets restarted (located where the Stardust Hotel and Frontier Hotels once stood), then the expansion to the north will continue... It's so strange, in many ways The Strip has gotten far more compact over the years, because even as it has grown to the South, it's shrunk on the north side even more!

Aaron (Glowrock)
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LSyd · #25 Posted **Dec 19, 2009, 7:30 PM**

funktastic.

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raph93 · #26 Posted **Dec 24, 2009, 9:36 PM**

Excellent, thanks for sharing

fflint · #27 Posted **Dec 25, 2009, 8:30 AM**

Time capsule! I remember some of that old Vegas stuff.

skyline · #28 Posted **Dec 25, 2009, 3:09 PM**

That was really neat to see, THANKS!
I still like looking at my old city skyline shots I took as a kid while on family vacations 20 years ago.

Swinefeld · #29 Posted **Dec 26, 2009, 3:53 AM**

These nostalgic pics of Vegas are great. The first time I went to Vegas was in 1990 and you just forget about all of the stuff that was once there. At the time nobody would think that joints like the Sands and the Dunes and the Frontier would be gone and forgotten.

Nothing lasts in Vegas. Nothing.

KevinFromTexas · #30 Posted **Dec 26, 2009, 3:26 PM**

Great pics. Both the Landmark and Stardust were the greatest losses.

rockyi · #31 Posted **Dec 26, 2009, 3:31 PM**

My last visit was in 1980 and the city was in bad shape at that time. I had a hard time walking very far on the strip without somebody coming up and offering to sell me some drugs.

Onward · #32 Posted **Dec 26, 2009, 7:14 PM**

Wow.... Awesome pics thanks for sharing. Was just in Vegas last week, that place changes so damn much. City Center is by far my favorite project.

SS Rex · #33 Posted **Aug 8, 2013, 2:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by plinko

Circus Circus (pre-giant purple lighted tent thingy)

the giant purple tent thingy was there in 1968, the original Circus Circus structure. It's called "Circus" after all. This tower was built a few years later, 1971. Both were there in the late 80s, both there today in 2013.

volguus zildrohar · #34 Posted **Aug 8, 2013, 2:53 AM**

I didn't make it to Vegas until 2010. Your images and today's cityscape seem like they're on two different worlds...at least along The Strip.

destroycreate · #35 Posted **Aug 8, 2013, 8:04 PM**

I mean nearly all of those buildings were hideous, so aesthetically I don't see how they could be too missed. However if I was a native of LV I'd be sad that there were no real historical landmarks or anything being preserved in my hometown. Everything's built to be eventually torn down.

Even "historic" Fremont Street is a little ridiculous with the "Fremont Street Experience". It feels anything but authentic/local.

When I was in 7th grade I went through a crazy obsession with Las Vegas though, and bought a whole video series off of A&E channel about the city's history. I found the whole mofia aspect of the place so fascinating, and the city's subsequent decay and revival. It's much more of an interesting city than people would like to believe.

patriotizzy · #36 Posted **Aug 10, 2013, 12:10 AM**

Incredible. The change is almost as shocking as Dubai's.

The-New-Tony-Detroit · #37 Posted **Aug 10, 2013, 1:30 AM**

Stunning contrast to what exists today!

KevinFromTexas · #38 Posted **Aug 10, 2013, 7:10 AM**

Gotta see this again.

And I love this one of the Plaza. That photo would have been just a year after the 2nd Back to the Future was filmed there. Biff's hotel and casino.

Derek · #39 Posted **Aug 10, 2013, 8:58 AM**

Fascinating stuff!

westak · #40 Posted **Aug 10, 2013, 1:45 PM**

This is the Vegas I visited in '91, thanks for this blast from the past!