IN OLD LAS VEGAS - ®™ Website Preview

Video Title :	IN OLD LAS VEGAS - ®™ Website Preview
Description :	http://www.oldlasvegasphotos.com http://www.inoldlasvegas.com Tony West's Music. A Photo-History of Old Las Vegas' Early Days from 1905-1975 by Erik Wunstell. My new website InOldLasVegas.com just opened. It contains the largest most colorful Old Vegas photos on the Internet. I am a photographer who has been photographing Las Vegas since 1974. I have loads of vintage, old Vegas photos that I've restored and hand-painted with my mouse (for hours on end) in order to bring the past fully back to life. Please be sure to visit regularly to see this new website's continual growth. This WILL NOT be the corporate version of Las Vegas or the perpetuation of popular myths. Instead, InOldLasVegas.com will show and tell the unseen and unheard tale of one of the most unique destination cities in the entire world. The history of Las Vegas is a story about Design, Architecture, Signage, Advertising and Interior Decoration. It is more a story about Popular American Culture than anything else - since Las Vegas is the Showcase City for evolution in the arts, entertainment and technological fields. You won't find any stories glorifying Bugsy Seigel, the Mafia, Mob or gangsters on this website. Their contribution was nil, over-exaggerated and basically irrelevant to this city's expansion (and I'll tell you why later). Instead - this website will tell the story of the pioneers, entertainment promoters, publicity departments, ad agencies, hotel designers, sign-makers, hospitality workers, photographers, taxi drivers, strippers, burlesque dancers, tango parlor ladies, showgirls and all the thousands of people that actually had the most impact on making Las Vegas what it is today - The Entertainment Capital of the World. I'll show you the days when Las Vegas was just a whistle-stop train station, the 1905 town-lot auction, the arrival of Hoover Dam and its impact, the beginning of Glitter Gulch and the Birth and Growth of the Las Vegas Strip. There will be stories and photos of all the popular casinos and hotels...from Downtown and on the Strip (including): * 1941 El Rancho * 1942 Last Frontier * 1946 Flamingo * 1948 Thunderbird * 1952 Sahara * 1952 Sands * 1955 Royal Nevada * 1955 Dunes * 1955 Riviera * 1957 Tropicana * 1958 Stardust * 1966 Aladdin * 1966 Caesars Palace * 1968 Circus Circus * 1973 MGM Grand along with all the various expansions made to these Hotel-Casinos thru 1975. Believe me. I know the 'true history' of this town and will show and tell you most of all I know and learned over the last 38 years (plus the stories and adventures I heard driving a taxi here from 1999-2006). I see Las Vegas from a photographic historian's observational point-of-view and will openly show and tell you what I know. I invite you to come and take a look at the beauty of Las Vegas' past, glory days on my all-new website - InOldLasVegas.com And if you want to see what is happening in New Las Vegas, please check my WestVegas.com website for a complete guide to every hotel show, lounge and nightclub - along with photos of all the new hotels -from Wynn's Encore, the new Aladdin, Palms, Palazzo and all the rest. When there - you can find new photos plus important information on how to plan a better trip...as well as casino maps and my 'Las Vegas Survival Guide' (the things your travel agent, bartender, bellhop or doorman wouldn't know or tell you in a hundred years). WestVegas.com ------------------------------ All music recorded and copyrighted exclusively by Tony West (AKA Phillip Colaianni) singing his great versions of Johnny Ray's 'Cry', and Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog'. of Minneapolis, Minnesota . Tony does great impersonations of various comedians like Red Foxx, plus loads of voice dialects. You can contact Tony at: siradio@comcast.net.
Views :	974
Rating :	5.00
Keywords, Tags :	vintage old early days las vegas history retrocityscape westvegas erik wunstell tony west phillip colaianni casino Landmark Travel Log Cityscape
Video Length :	5 : 35

Comments :

Fantastic!...

I love this video! I'm a big fan of Vegas history and culture...sure looks different today. I still love it, but I love seeing the old photos.

If someone wants to know how things are today they can just listen to the songs of yesteryear. Nice video. I bet the El Rancho Hotel really did rock at one time!