LAS VEGAS 1956 - DOWNTOWN, STRIP, SAHARA HOTEL

A look at Las Vegas by 15 year old Ray Lindstrom and his 8mm movie camera and narrated by him over 50 years later. See the casinos on Fremont St. and on The Strip. You'll see the lights of El Rancho Vegas, The Flamingo, Sands, Silver Slipper, Desert Inn, Thunderbird, and Sahara.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Las
• Vegas
• 1956
• Fremont
• The
• Strip
• Silver
• Slipper
• Casinos
• Frontier
• Sahara
• Sands
• Flamingo
• Thunderbird
• Desert
• Inn

[mikealtan]

It was nice of Mitt Romney to share his video with us. Thanks Mitt.

[RayLindstrom]

@mikealtan What does that mean?

[VistaXXX2008]

Why oh why wasn't my father smart enough to buy 10 acres of dirt on the strip back then? Why!!!!

[brgvt97]

I like your narration. You have the perfect voice for it.

[thelazycomic]

Excellent video. I felt like I was there... even though it was before I was born. LOL

[Connieleann]

My grandfather always stayed at the Sands Hotel . Happy Birthday grampa I love you and miss you and your cigars .

[Diamondgrl2007]

MAN i wanna get in a time machine and go back wayyy before my time just to see Vegas like this and when they casinos first came in...it looked soooooo much better than the way it does today...i'd still go once in a while but i like Old Vegas better!! i finally see a video instead of pictures...

[Zoomer30]

You forgot the flash from the nuclear testing :)

[lilliteningpea]

you sir have a voice for television and radio thanks for sharing this

[Pelon714]

Great! Thanks for sharing and you have a great voice! Las Vegas had class back then. This was just prior to the Rat Pack Days.

[timon924]

That was fun.

[CoOlTy3000]

GREAT!!!!!!

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[LENTICULARPLASTIC]

@1998disco72 It's true, Dion. Vegas was a classy place before the shakedown. You didn't go to the clubs dressed informally...My dad always said that the opening of Slots-O-Fun as a casual gaming house for the lower middle class marked the beginning of the end of the "Old Vegas" epoch.