My dad did a lot of construction on the casinos. 🎰 bellagio stratosphere circus circus and so many more im a born and raised local my dad knew what he was doing when he moved to Vegas in the 80s ! Seeing Vegas grow and grow through the years is something I'll never take for Granted VIVA LAS VEGAS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎰🎰🎰🎰
The irony. Back in the 90s, people thought of "old Vegas" as the 1950s and 60s, the Rat Pack days. 80s Vegas was seen as shit, then the Mirage opened in 1989 and after that Vegas started modernizing and coming back from the dead, to the place it is now with multiple resort hotels.
First time to Las Vegas was January 1989. Returned in 91,93 and 1995. Been going annually since 1997. Can’t believe it’s been more than 30 years since 1993 because it seems like yesterday.
Thanks for that. Love it. Arrived in Las Vegas in 1993 straight from the French Foreign Legion. Myself and friend of mine, a fellow soldier. 24 and 22 years old.
I was born in August of that year 1993 lol I’m 30 and live in las Vegas now from being born in Chicago,IL it looks like a whole different world lol 😅😂❤
“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some 25 year old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from... Junk Bonds”.
My dad did a lot of construction on the casinos. 🎰 bellagio stratosphere circus circus and so many more im a born and raised local my dad knew what he was doing when he moved to Vegas in the 80s ! Seeing Vegas grow and grow through the years is something I'll never take for Granted VIVA LAS VEGAS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎰🎰🎰🎰
Love old Vegas. Been going since 1980. Remember this time well. ty for posting.
The irony. Back in the 90s, people thought of "old Vegas" as the 1950s and 60s, the Rat Pack days. 80s Vegas was seen as shit, then the Mirage opened in 1989 and after that Vegas started modernizing and coming back from the dead, to the place it is now with multiple resort hotels.
First time to Las Vegas was January 1989. Returned in 91,93 and 1995. Been going annually since 1997. Can’t believe it’s been more than 30 years since 1993 because it seems like yesterday.
Thanks for that. Love it. Arrived in Las Vegas in 1993 straight from the French Foreign Legion. Myself and friend of mine, a fellow soldier. 24 and 22 years old.
Amazing video btw. It really makes me want to start recording who knows who'll see it 30 years from now !
I was born in August of that year 1993 lol I’m 30 and live in las Vegas now from being born in Chicago,IL it looks like a whole different world lol 😅😂❤
No it doesn’t
Amazing to see, thanks!!!
Vegas was great before it became Los Angeles !!!!
Lol so true 100p000% right
This is right when the frontier strike BBC started it’s funny just to see it all casually in the background
Priceless film, cheers
0:22 My heart still breaks any time I see Wet & Wild
Damn I remember stardust in early 2000s.
I was there in April that year..i was 13
Just Born
Q: The most interesting part of the video?
A: Being able to drive on the strip at a decent speed with relatively little traffic.
I said to myself watching the opening shot, "What the heck it that thing?" I then realized it was the Stratosphere tower. lol
How do you deal with the heat 110° degress?
love it love it
Alot of these casinos are gone the frontier,desert inn,Riviera,stardust,tropicana,sands,dunes,el rancho,hacienda and Aladd
And now Tropicana.
“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots.
In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday.
Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some 25 year old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number.
After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from... Junk Bonds”.
This footage was take just a year before they started filming Casino at the Riviera.
Like the Music
Grand Slam Canyon!
Now you can’t even get around on the roads or side walks. Vegas feels like such a dump now
Just born
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