Bullshit remark, they spent millions rehabbing the place about 5 years ago. It just fine. You guys bitch about how its changed, and bitch about the ones that are still standing for 50 years . Make up your minds.
@Mo Chubby's Music ya I get it, I'm just saying a lot of people in the past and present have video recorded stuff for memories it's nothing new. It's used to make a video "record".
@@isaacperez9158 well sooorry, I didn't expect Ya'll to get all butthurt at my question.. I seriously wondered what she was talking about as video recording was nothing groundbreaking back then.. sheeez
Really? I know a lot has changed but I wouldn't say it looks nothing like it does now. A lot of the hotels are still there. Guess depends on your perspective. A lot sure has changed but a lot is still there.
@@mrkeno1000 Locals love what it's become. It's just getting better and better, especially now with the hockey team and the new stadium. Locals usually don't even go down to the Strip, but now there's more reasons.
Vegas Snowman nah we hate it honestly. The hockey and football teams ain’t worth the hassle of driving through a congested freeway moving like pond water surrounded by idiots with California plates.
How did Vegas die? A young buffet at a place called the Mirage. We used to eat there for $6 oh before you were born. Now buffets are$54.99. Twisted and evil.
@@obviousproductions7468👍👍 When they tried to go all fancy I/e Bellagio.. Went from cheap buffets, to fine dining. I. P. had a good reasonable buffet. Late night dining at the Sahara..
I grew up in Vegas and left for work internationally. I hadn’t visited the place in 5 years and man was I shocked when I came back in 2019. It’s changed so much that I quite frankly may never come back again. Sad as I loved Vegas.
Book at the Palms Condominiums on Airbnb. No resort fees and a good view of the Strip. Plus good dining at the Gold Coast or Rio. Even the Palms Casino has good restaurants.
Ya.. I hear you.. I am San Diegan and used to road trip to Vegas a lot in the 90s in high school ans later and wow.. what a great place it once was.. although everything was better then.. one thing I think helped destroy everything good/society is the invention of the smartphone.
@@jerrysullivan8424 I was just thinking that~ I think I was born too late. I moved here in 93 to open Luxor & back THEN I kept hearing that with TI, LUX & MGM opening so quickly that the 'new' Vegas sucked & they missed the 'Old' Vegas~ I had no idea how much more 'New' it would get since then. I'm just glad I got to experience at least the last wave of the old stuff with those older hotels still open. Now just going to the strip for a drink will cost 20 bucks for the drink & 12 for parking.
@@3pointmvpshooter3000 arriving at airport 30 min before flight and blasting through security. Family and friends could meet you at gate if they wanted.
The Flamingo and Stardust hold a special place in Vegas history. The iconic hotels are Flamingo, Stardust, Golden Nugget, Caesars’, and more recently MGM Grand, Bellagio, and The Mirage. Vegas just isn’t Vegas without those places.
Stardust became more and more broke. Stardust is Las Vegas history but a Chinese themed Casino is getting finished where Stardust was. The sign for Stardust is at the Neon Museum. Suggested visit.
I remember the fire they had up there. It was the first fire at a Bob Stupak property that he really got upset about. Plus one of the three supports of the tower was quite a bit off and they built the front to cover it up.
With the exception of fight night anytime a boxing match was in town the strip was packed so this was most likely not a fight night fight night is and has always been Vegas most crowded nights besides that it's always pretty light
This video was taken early in the morning according to the video creator so that's why it wasn't crowded. Also, it's always been crowded especially Fremont Street.
03:28 The old Treasure Island Sign looked a lot better than the lame sign that replaced it. The Sands used to have an excellent seafood buffet on Sunday Nights.
Patricia Vidal honestly I always get really upset when I’m driving past Treasure Island. When I was little my family would take me to the pirate show, and as a kid obsessed with pirates and mermaids, it was the coolest thing ever! Now they’ve got that shitty Senor Frogs club there. The least they could have done was theme the club to match the Pirate aspects. Wasn’t it a Siren club previously?
@@marketweis Same. That was my first job when I moved out here in 06. I was a ride attendant. They were just starting to take the High Roller ride down. Good times.
@Daniel Varela Yeah. It's dumb how they just removed a couple letters and capitalized them as "The STRAT". Stratosphere was a way better name. They could've left it like that and just updated the sign with new neon lights instead of changing the name too...
Trevor Wilkinson nothing against you, just people in the comments thinking that it wasn’t crowded in the 90s. 6-8 am is really the only time the city takes a nap, lol.
Lived in Las Vegas from 1986-2013 place definitely went under some changes even from 94. Lot of places seen here don't even exist anymore. I loved it...but, it was definitely better back in the day...still miss it sometimes though.
@@charlesbukowski9836 I retired from the Carpenters Union out of Las Vegas and moved to Tucson Az. So even though a lot these casino's don't exist anymore I did alright working on their replacements. See the big lions head at the beginning at the MGM, worked with the contractor that took that down, but LV is pretty expensive to live now, definitely not the deal it once was. Wished I know the Allman Brothers Band was playing at the time though....lol
@@robertglancy4474 I lived there in 05-06 .... West side Spring Mountain....city was alright... nothing special.. I think I only really went to the strip like 10 times total because it was turning into a circus... plus the 'deals' were becoming expensive.. although I am looking at OK right now to get out of CA (due to Commie politics) .. I was going to go to AZ but we have an office in PHX and was shocked how much cost of living has caught up to CA the last 5-10 years..
@@charlesbukowski9836 yeah, I only went to the strip if I was doing work there. 05-06 was definitely a circus there with people buying and flipping houses and driving up the prices for everything. PHX isn't any different now, lots of people driving up the prices and now it's all coming to Tucson. It's not the cheap deal it was just in the few years I have lived here. Thinking of checking out Kingman small city and only about 100 miles from Vegas if I want to take a motorcycle ride up there for the day and head back. Plus you have Bullhead City and Laughlin or Prescott which is kind of a cool place.
Reality check, cellphones existed back then too they just weren't smartphones. People were still talking on their phones back then too, the only difference was that they weren't so common and there weren't any laws about using them while driving. Amd I'm pretty sure people still found other eays to distract themselves from interacting with one another back then too.
Thank you for this video. I was just at the strip last week and there’s definitely a remarkable contrast! Today’s Las Vegas has a real cyberpunk city feel to it whilst this version still looks like a quiet resort town
And to think, even at that time it was poppin! Our expectation for visual stimulation has gone through the roof. There were still wild times to be had even back then. It just wasn't all in your face like it is today...
Every square inch of space on the strip now has some kind of retail outlet or Hotel on it but not everything is worse - The Linq promenade is a hell of a lot better than the Imperial Palace that used to stand there and there are a lot more walkways across the street than back then...even if the escalators don't work most of the time. Downtown has a lot more going on than in 1994 as well, and there are more 'regular' stores, in 1994 you were a prisoner of the Hotel gift shops for the most part.
Great footage! I miss those days. Moved there in 1990 and now Las Vegas looks NOTHING like that. Nothing but TV screens everywhere, resort fees and overcrowded sidewalks now. Old Las Vegas was the BOMB! I used to go to Westward Ho after a night of fun and I would get the 49 cent biscuits and gravy!...lol
Electra Glide ... we’d go to slots of fun next door to westward ho and get chicken fingers for 2$ and it was A LOT of fingers and fries for that price 😂
Come on back. I live here and the economy is stronger than ever. Its easy to find a job here, and if you ever lose your job, just do lyft or uber in between jobs.
JohnnyBoyCali really? How much are the rent? Like I don’t want to rent just a room but maybe a small apartment/studio with bathroom and small kitchen. I live in New York since I was a kid since 2004. I want to get out of here . Too cold and expensive. You need to be making more money and work lots of hours if you wanna live by yourself. I’m not lazy but I ain’t working that many hours for a shitty living here
JohnnyBoyCali you are exactly what’s turning this city into shithole LA 2.0 people from California moving here to do Uber and Lyft. Smh just what we need more degenerates that can’t hold a steady job running rampant on our roads.
Lived in LV for several years, left in 1994, never came back, so this is exactly how I still remember it in my mind. I imagine I'd be shocked going back today.
The thing that stands out to me in this video is seeing the sky. Driving North up the Strip and looking up and seeing the sky instead of massive, hulking buildings everywhere like you see today.
I sure miss some of those old places like the Stardust, Westward Ho, Riviera, Silver City, Frontier.. Only Slots of fun and Circus Circus are left . Ty for posting
Omg the City looks so empty in the 90s... That's absolutely nothing compared to today. But it's really bad that so many beautiful Casinos are gone. I miss Riviera...😞
Born and raised here I'm almost 30 now and that's the Treasure Island I remember my favorite just the whole look of it totally different. I like seeing history thanks.
Amazing video. This was a great time to visit, because a whole bunch of new resorts had recently opened. MGM Grand, Excalibur, Luxor, Treasure Island, and Mirage were recent additions in the past 5 years or less. I also love the way Harrahs used to look with the river boat exterior. Crazy to see the Sands where Venentian is currently located. And no Bellagio. My first visit to Vegas was in 1997, so it looked pretty similar to this. Thanks for bringing me back in time!
I remember visiting in the late 80s when the Mirage was still under construction. At night it was an assault to the eyes. It took a couple trips to get used to it.
@@spookycrane9318 Brandon’s just jealous his sense of nostalgia will surely suck when he get’s older. These kids today will never know what simplistic times are. Sad if ya think about it.
And why do they always tap them on their hands two or three times before handing them out? I actually did some research on the people who do that. They always look like theyre from a rough life. Some said they were embarrassed by the work, but they had to do it to make more money. Some said that many of those companies are shady and will find ways to not pay them. Some will purposely look for illegals and then report them a day or two before payday.
Yup, especially since table minimums are normally $15-$25 on the strip for just about everything. Drinks come around super slow. Plus the outrageous resort fees. No comps for free meals or free night stays.
started going here every Memorial Day weekend from 1993 to 2000 always stayed at the Westward Ho between Stardust and Circus Circus thank you for preserving this era of Vegas good times and memories
I was there in March of '93, betting the horses in one of the sportsbooks. James Carville walked up to my seat and asked if he could borrow my Racing Form for a minute. Why he chose to ask me out all the people there I'll never know. 😊
I was the King of the games at Circus Circus as a kid. Especially the one where you roll the ball in the hole with a 3, 2 or 1 and the horse would move accordingly. I used to bring so many stuffed animals back home! haha Sadly, I never won the tall Pink Panther that you get from tossing the softball in the big milk jug. We went for a week every summer and not once in 7 or so years did I win that thing :( That was my dream. Oh well.
I was 13 then, I remember running around the strip with my friends every summer. Wet n wild on the strip was the best. So many memories. Thanks for posting this.
I remember going there at that time when I was a teenager. The shiny new Pyramid and the awesome castle. Those were my favorites. Luxor and Excalibur are now the cheap places. I've stayed at both in the past 10 years and they are really showing their age. Also, that original Treasure Island sign was the best.
Thank you to whoever put this up. As a born and bred Las Vegan, you brought me back to my childhood. The memories of driving on the strip as a kid with my folks are literally flooding in.
.....I graduated High School, in Las Vegas, in 1972. It was a much nicer place, and even in 1994, it was still " ok ", ... it's saddening to see it today, even though I no longer live there.... Silvestri.... that name sounds very familiar.. 🤔. ;... a long time Las Vegas Family? My children are Las Vegas natives, and cannot believe how dramatically it has changed.... and not for " the better ".
Its always so interesting to see vintage footage of a place which changes daily.... thanks for posting. Great to see this and the changes which have happened since!
My family and I used to go to vegas every year when I was a teen in the late 80's and early 90's. This brings back so many memories of me staring out the window as we got to the strip and drove by each casino/hotel just like this and would usually stop at the circus circus. Thank you for the memories!
Haha, this brought back so many memories. I turned 21 in '94 and me and a bunch of friends took a little blotter and had planned on going to the old Sharks Club. One buddy and I weren't feeling the vibe of the line or security guards and ended up walking up and down that strip, in and out of hotels for hours and hours. Good times...
SO frigging cool to see this. I was in my 20s during this time. I went to Vegas probably two or three times a year. … I remember so much of this time period. Walk the sidewalks on both sides of the road hundreds of times. So many good memories. I’m glad I got to see Vegas like this… I think of how much it’s changed. I remember picking up the picket signs and walking from one end of the hotel to the other. I went to all those little small businesses in between the casinos so many times… And now they are not there. Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for uploading this video of the strip in the 90s' It wasnt until 2002 that i went to vegas for the first time, at 30yrs old. Wish i would of visited much sooner.
This is a great video looking back in time. The Strip has gotten so congested now with buildings and other things. And most of the neon and flashing lights are gone, too. Sad to see the neon go but times do change, I guess.
Great video Trevor.....I went in '87, I was 17. I saw $1.99 steak and eggs on the menu and was floored! Waitress told me it comes with 2 eggs, steak, grits and toast. You want one? I said...I'll take 4!
I still recall this year like it was yesterday. Gosh…Did we ever think you would miss this time SO much? I am joyful that a small piece of it is captured here. Probably on VHS cassette yes? Cheers.
This is great! My first trip was in 1999 and so much had changed even by then. I loved when themes were everywhere and every square-frickin-inch didn't have to be retail space or overpriced restaurants. I miss Aladdin and the original Treasure Island. I know it's much more shopping and nightclub driven and there is less gambling than ever, but I do get really nostalgic about the earlier era.
Wow this is so cool that you have this footage! We moved to Vegas in 1996 when I was 10. This is totally how I remembered it. I went last year and it was a whole new place, I was lost! It looks so empty in the video, everything is so spaced out. Now it’s so congested! Great video!!
yup. I was just in vegas in july 2022 and everything is so cramped even when there arent many people walking. The major casinos really retrofitted a lot of crap attached to the casinos and it killed the openness and overall walking space. To me it just feels so unnecessary what they did. The biggest casinos are just oversized shopping malls... The most comfort I had in vegas was walking into the dumpy circus circus, the slots were looser, we enjoyed the arcade above the casino, and it was just an overall good time for me at least.
Miss the Sands and Dunes, Stardust. I'm going to post a video of the grand opening of the original MGM. Everyone went to see the $50K chandeliers that hung over the main casino floor.
It's hard to contemplate those large empty areas and parking lots between the big hotels. Great job, whomever recorded this. I love seeing the Stratosphere tower being built.
This is one month before I graduated high school there in Henderson. It's the Vegas I remember growing up. Thanks for this, it's a heck of trip down memory lane.
That month and year was when i got married this april will be 26 yrs iv been married to my amazing beutiful wife and we will be there as we do every year on our anniversary
This was very interesting. Everything was so huge and grand! There were crosswalks and parking lots! The guy getting arrested was interesting lol. Loved it.
I think most of the change is that the pedestrian bridges block the sightlines down the Strip (and the center margin and the palm trees don't help in that regard). A lot of medium-sized buildings also got built close to the street, lending to a sense of closeness (or claustrophobia) and obscuring just how gargantuan the hotel tower blocks behind them actually are.
Daym. This was the Vegas I remember from my first visit. Before it was over built to the point where you can no longer see the horizon when on the Strip. This video is awesome!!!
I enjoyed this video so much. This is the Vegas I remember. We started going yearly in the early 90s and stopped going in the late 90s. Such fond memories of Westward Ho and Fremont St. I was a teenager so the thing that impressed me most was the cost of food. We got breakfast buffets for 2.99, shrimp cocktail for .99. I remember the grand opening of the Hard Rock. What else? Oh when they had the plane sticking out of The Sands, for Con Air. Wow, sooooo many treasured memories.
Was just at the Mirage last week and it really is impressive how well they keep up that place. You look at it in this video and at that time it was one of the newest properties on the strip and even to this day I’d say it’s still in the top 5
Same with MGM. MGM is one of my favorite hotel casinos on the strip. Always clean and maintains a modern look. I had a conference at NY and that place was the shits
StuUngar I like MGM but I prefer to be more north on the strip. I like to casino hop and there’s just really not many I like around MGM. Mandalay is nice but even that’s a hike
@@oldtwinsna8347 Yeah :\ Like sure, do a guitar shaped casino but don't replace Mirage! We made sure to watch the volcano show in case that gets removed.
Living and working in Vegas in the 90s, for me, was extremely good and fun. But the NIGHTS!!!! Oh man,! After we closed the bar @ 2:00am, we would go to the clubs, get industry comps, take"X", and dance and laugh till afternoon! Especially at the club UTOPIA!!!! WOOOOOOO!!! Shout-out to Dave! He was the man to know back then!! Damn I feel old...🤔
And to this day the Circus Circus still haven't cleaned the carpets since this was filmed!!
Bullshit remark, they spent millions rehabbing the place about 5 years ago. It just fine. You guys bitch about how its changed, and bitch about the ones that are still standing for 50 years . Make up your minds.
We used to stay at the circus circus
Steve Franklin Circus Circus still has that 90s vibe its cool!
Do the dealers still wear those big polka dot shirts? 😊
Never will. Needs to be imploded.
A split screen of this with a 2020 repeat trip would be really cool
Too bad the traffic of the 2020 cam won’t allow to flow side by side. He’ll have to speed it up
Barely any traffic in the morning
I live in Vegas, I can most likely make it happen when I get a chance
@@goosechickinpox7538 it's possible!
Well I know what I’m doing ! I live here
And not a single Walgreens/CVS to be seen, how times change.
Happy Harry's
Don’t forget about all of the Starbucks we have now on the strip
People gotta get their drugs in vegas
dave smith more mom and pop places.
I think there was a Walgreen's in the Carnival Court next to Harrah's back then
Whoever filmed this is ahead of their time so dope
How so?
@Mo Chubby's Music ya I get it, I'm just saying a lot of people in the past and present have video recorded stuff for memories it's nothing new. It's used to make a video "record".
muddy hotdog your fun at parties I bet
Isaac Perez right ? Lmao miserable people
@@isaacperez9158 well sooorry, I didn't expect Ya'll to get all butthurt at my question.. I seriously wondered what she was talking about as video recording was nothing groundbreaking back then.. sheeez
Looks nothing like it does now, looked a lot more spacious back then.
Really? I know a lot has changed but I wouldn't say it looks nothing like it does now. A lot of the hotels are still there. Guess depends on your perspective. A lot sure has changed but a lot is still there.
you should have seen it in the 60s and 70s it was really spacious. Locals hate what it has become
@@mrkeno1000 Locals love what it's become. It's just getting better and better, especially now with the hockey team and the new stadium. Locals usually don't even go down to the Strip, but now there's more reasons.
i think it looked better back then than now
Vegas Snowman nah we hate it honestly. The hockey and football teams ain’t worth the hassle of driving through a congested freeway moving like pond water surrounded by idiots with California plates.
That mconalds by circus circus is still there to this day😌
Mathew Garcia they still serve pizza?
Mathew Garcia yes
I went to that MacDonald every morning to get coffee on my vacation in the eighties, you are so right
And there's one inside circus circus too. I like that the breakfast includes a biscuit instead of an English muffin
Yes it is
Before the dark times..
Before resort fees...
And parking fees!
How did Vegas die?
A young buffet at a place called the Mirage. We used to eat there for $6 oh before you were born. Now buffets are$54.99. Twisted and evil.
@@obviousproductions7468👍👍 When they tried to go all fancy I/e Bellagio.. Went from cheap buffets, to fine dining. I. P. had a good reasonable buffet. Late night dining at the Sahara..
I grew up in Vegas and left for work internationally. I hadn’t visited the place in 5 years and man was I shocked when I came back in 2019. It’s changed so much that I quite frankly may never come back again. Sad as I loved Vegas.
Book at the Palms Condominiums on Airbnb.
No resort fees and a good view of the Strip.
Plus good dining at the Gold Coast or Rio.
Even the Palms Casino has good restaurants.
Being born and raised in Vegas looking at this makes me want to cry I miss these simple times
I move in 94
It was paradise for us.
2020 is like fast life.. and it feels so crowded. Living cost is high for us that live her for that long..
You should have seen it in the 60s or early 70s. :)
@@jerrysullivan8424 Just watch a few episodes of Vega$.
Ya.. I hear you.. I am San Diegan and used to road trip to Vegas a lot in the 90s in high school ans later and wow.. what a great place it once was.. although everything was better then.. one thing I think helped destroy everything good/society is the invention of the smartphone.
@@jerrysullivan8424 I was just thinking that~ I think I was born too late. I moved here in 93 to open Luxor & back THEN I kept hearing that with TI, LUX & MGM opening so quickly that the 'new' Vegas sucked & they missed the 'Old' Vegas~ I had no idea how much more 'New' it would get since then. I'm just glad I got to experience at least the last wave of the old stuff with those older hotels still open. Now just going to the strip for a drink will cost 20 bucks for the drink & 12 for parking.
I miss the 90s so much the last great era of anything, music, art, movies fucking everything
Agreed!
As a matter of fact, the 90s was also Pre 9/11 on top of that.
Totally agree the 90s was the best times and I was only 9 to 19 during the 90s but it was better than the 2000s and 2010s and 2020s
@@3pointmvpshooter3000 arriving at airport 30 min before flight and blasting through security. Family and friends could meet you at gate if they wanted.
There’s still so much great music and great movies nowadays old man
Casinos come and go, but getting rid of the Stardust was a mistake.
The Flamingo and Stardust hold a special place in Vegas history.
The iconic hotels are Flamingo, Stardust, Golden Nugget, Caesars’, and more recently MGM Grand, Bellagio, and The Mirage.
Vegas just isn’t Vegas without those places.
@@StuUngar and mandalabay
I know I remember we stayed there on the Sunday October 1994 for $25 a night
Stardust became more and more broke. Stardust is Las Vegas history but a Chinese themed Casino is getting finished where Stardust was. The sign for Stardust is at the Neon Museum. Suggested visit.
Sweet Lil Devil .... I remember the water shot from one planter to another in the front of the casino and we thought it as so cool 😂
7:56 free parking! Definitely not today’s Vegas lol
John and Jenn Aganon just park at planet Hollywood 😂😂😂
lol treasure island actually does still have free parking!!
The Venetian has free parking also
Excalibur has free parking too
Now today's Vegas, lol. Thanks and no thanks to Covid.
I couldn't stop staring at the stratosphere being under construction. It's amazing how spacious the strip used to be.
I remember the fire they had up there. It was the first fire at a Bob Stupak property that he really got upset about. Plus one of the three supports of the tower was quite a bit off and they built the front to cover it up.
Looks like this video was shot early in the morning, on a slow day like Tuesday or Wednesday.
The good old days when the strip was never crowded.
it used to get crowded but yeah nothing like today. Hell you cant even drive on vegas blvd
With the exception of fight night anytime a boxing match was in town the strip was packed so this was most likely not a fight night fight night is and has always been Vegas most crowded nights besides that it's always pretty light
Nobody goes there anymore....it's Too crowded
@@clarktferrill Nobody goes there anymore.... its to crowded. Did you even read that to yourself before posting?
This video was taken early in the morning according to the video creator so that's why it wasn't crowded. Also, it's always been crowded especially Fremont Street.
Damn treasure island looked way cooler back then! I would definetly stay at that hotel. Treasure island today is sad AF.
I remember their pirate show .long gone :(
03:28 The old Treasure Island Sign looked a lot better than the lame sign that replaced it. The Sands used to have an excellent seafood buffet on Sunday Nights.
Patricia Vidal honestly I always get really upset when I’m driving past Treasure Island. When I was little my family would take me to the pirate show, and as a kid obsessed with pirates and mermaids, it was the coolest thing ever! Now they’ve got that shitty Senor Frogs club there. The least they could have done was theme the club to match the Pirate aspects. Wasn’t it a Siren club previously?
Treasure Island use to be cool with the pirate show...now it's just a piece of sh!t lol...miss the 90s Vegas
I think they replaced the Pirate sign to avoid legal issues with Disney.
Damn flamingo looked awesome. Something was lost when the signs and marquees went from neons and bulbs to LEDs
LEDs are horrible on your eyes.
Corporate Soullessness was gained
4:05 The Stratosphere under construction
Its called the "STRAT" now 🤢
NY NY under construction too. I had to stay there for a conference and it’s a shit hole. I would’ve guessed its ben there since the 70’s
Having been on the rides up there, it's eerily weird seeing that.
@@marketweis Same. That was my first job when I moved out here in 06. I was a ride attendant. They were just starting to take the High Roller ride down. Good times.
@Daniel Varela Yeah. It's dumb how they just removed a couple letters and capitalized them as "The STRAT". Stratosphere was a way better name. They could've left it like that and just updated the sign with new neon lights instead of changing the name too...
When you could actually see the casinos instead off CVS and stupid overpriced shops
What an amazing time. Free parking, no traffic, cheap shows. I miss those days. I don't even go to the strip anymore
$2.99 prime rib dinners.
There’s nobody on the strip because this video was probably shot between 6-7 am... nobody is out on the strip at that time lol
Then and now. It's a ghost town at 7am. Everyone is in their room.
You’re right, I recorded this between 6 and 7am on a Saturday morning.
Trevor Wilkinson nothing against you, just people in the comments thinking that it wasn’t crowded in the 90s. 6-8 am is really the only time the city takes a nap, lol.
Not nowadays!
Aye I was just there and the streets are 24/7. Vegas never sleeps
Lived in Las Vegas from 1986-2013 place definitely went under some changes even from 94. Lot of places seen here don't even exist anymore. I loved it...but, it was definitely better back in the day...still miss it sometimes though.
where did you go and why
@@charlesbukowski9836 I retired from the Carpenters Union out of Las Vegas and moved to Tucson Az. So even though a lot these casino's don't exist anymore I did alright working on their replacements. See the big lions head at the beginning at the MGM, worked with the contractor that took that down, but LV is pretty expensive to live now, definitely not the deal it once was. Wished I know the Allman Brothers Band was playing at the time though....lol
@@robertglancy4474 I lived there in 05-06 .... West side Spring Mountain....city was alright... nothing special.. I think I only really went to the strip like 10 times total because it was turning into a circus... plus the 'deals' were becoming expensive.. although I am looking at OK right now to get out of CA (due to Commie politics) .. I was going to go to AZ but we have an office in PHX and was shocked how much cost of living has caught up to CA the last 5-10 years..
@@charlesbukowski9836 yeah, I only went to the strip if I was doing work there. 05-06 was definitely a circus there with people buying and flipping houses and driving up the prices for everything. PHX isn't any different now, lots of people driving up the prices and now it's all coming to Tucson. It's not the cheap deal it was just in the few years I have lived here. Thinking of checking out Kingman small city and only about 100 miles from Vegas if I want to take a motorcycle ride up there for the day and head back. Plus you have Bullhead City and Laughlin or Prescott which is kind of a cool place.
That's the Strip I remember and loved.
Thanks for sharing it.
Felix Lenox you don’t like the new strip ?
I agree, it (I've heard) has a different feeling now than then. I haven't been there since '92 , when Mirage and Excalibur were the new places
Circus Circus still has the cheapest hookers in Vegas....best $15 that I ever spent!!!
Reality Check the new strip is nice but too bad the riviera and stardust had to go... it’s a big empty space now.
PappaGiorgio87 if the riviera and stardust still existed it would still have some classic charm with the new modern theme
I miss the 90s...
Literally like one guy walking the strip and he’s being hassled by police.
Jimmy Greene shoot the cops and the person assaulting me. Cops are pigs
@Jimmy Greene LMFAO sissy cop lover.
They ran up on that dude like he was Bin Laden
FUCK THE COPS!!!
Everyone of you bootlicking cop lovers say the same shit, I don't need to call police I have guns to defend myself.
What a peaceful time to be alive.. no phones in the car. Living life.
John Paul Barrientos :(
The guy is literally recording with a camcorder it’s the same thing as a phone camera shut yo old ass up
Reality check, cellphones existed back then too they just weren't smartphones. People were still talking on their phones back then too, the only difference was that they weren't so common and there weren't any laws about using them while driving.
Amd I'm pretty sure people still found other eays to distract themselves from interacting with one another back then too.
There is literally a camera in the car. Stop making a big deal over phones in cars, such boomer comments
Sure did have a phone in the car, my trusty indestructible NOKIA and my VHS recorder.
94 was the first time I went to. Vegas. Just turned 21. For the past 10 years a visit at least 1 a year. It sure has changed a lot. Thank you sharing
except the sheets at circus circus
Proud to say my father was among many of the construction workers who helped build along the strip during the 90s. Love my hometown.
Hola donvergas. Do you live up to your RUclips username?
@@markmaese9495 a huevo
Thank you for this video. I was just at the strip last week and there’s definitely a remarkable contrast! Today’s Las Vegas has a real cyberpunk city feel to it whilst this version still looks like a quiet resort town
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I was there last week as well. 🙂 it was my first time. I had a blast but looking at this, I would’ve loved to be in Vegas at this time
Thanks, it really was a different place back then.
i got here at the wrong time!!!! i could have certainly loved this vegas in the video
And to think, even at that time it was poppin! Our expectation for visual stimulation has gone through the roof. There were still wild times to be had even back then. It just wasn't all in your face like it is today...
Every square inch of space on the strip now has some kind of retail outlet or Hotel on it but not everything is worse - The Linq promenade is a hell of a lot better than the Imperial Palace that used to stand there and there are a lot more walkways across the street than back then...even if the escalators don't work most of the time. Downtown has a lot more going on than in 1994 as well, and there are more 'regular' stores, in 1994 you were a prisoner of the Hotel gift shops for the most part.
Great footage! I miss those days. Moved there in 1990 and now Las Vegas looks NOTHING like that. Nothing but TV screens everywhere, resort fees and overcrowded sidewalks now. Old Las Vegas was the BOMB! I used to go to Westward Ho after a night of fun and I would get the 49 cent biscuits and gravy!...lol
I remember the late night steak and egg specials for 99 cents.
This man is def from the 90’s. “The bomb”!!!
Dont forget about the footlong hotdog at slots of fun
@@mikechekkah8381 Never had one... Were they good? 🌭😊
Electra Glide ... we’d go to slots of fun next door to westward ho and get chicken fingers for 2$ and it was A LOT of fingers and fries for that price 😂
i was living there at that time my parents and i moved to las vegas back in 1987 i lost both of them in 2012 i left in 2014 i miss las vegas so much
Come on back. I live here and the economy is stronger than ever. Its easy to find a job here, and if you ever lose your job, just do lyft or uber in between jobs.
JohnnyBoyCali really? How much are the rent? Like I don’t want to rent just a room but maybe a small apartment/studio with bathroom and small kitchen. I live in New York since I was a kid since 2004. I want to get out of here . Too cold and expensive. You need to be making more money and work lots of hours if you wanna live by yourself. I’m not lazy but I ain’t working that many hours for a shitty living here
Yes thank you Trump
thegaygaymerchannel I was talking about the economy booming
JohnnyBoyCali you are exactly what’s turning this city into shithole LA 2.0 people from California moving here to do Uber and Lyft. Smh just what we need more degenerates that can’t hold a steady job running rampant on our roads.
Makes me miss the old Vegas.
Lived in LV for several years, left in 1994, never came back, so this is exactly how I still remember it in my mind. I imagine I'd be shocked going back today.
Wow All I could say. Memories too. Thanks for sharing
I don't think there's another street on the planet that changes as much, from one year to the next, like the Vegas Strip. Never gets boring.
Looking back here, it looks so open, unlike the mega resort next to mega resort it became. Amazing. Thank you.
Vegas was definitely more authentic back then 😢 Miss those days ❤
The thing that stands out to me in this video is seeing the sky. Driving North up the Strip and looking up and seeing the sky instead of massive, hulking buildings everywhere like you see today.
wow, talk about a ride through memory lane. most of those places are gone. Thank you for sharing
There will never be another, RIP 20th century strip
Treasure Island in 1990"s was Best than 2000's and up. Now is SAD :-(
It was really good when it was part of the Mirage "complex." After they sold it off, not so much.
I can tell you like pirate themes ect
I still remembered the pirate shows they did on Treasure Island.
Like really a fucking CVS and Starbucks and that Senor Frogs or whatever the hell they have there now just sad like everyone else here says.
President Vincent Wilson II lol give Excalibur some slack...its meant for younger families
I sure miss some of those old places like the Stardust, Westward Ho, Riviera, Silver City, Frontier.. Only Slots of fun and Circus Circus are left . Ty for posting
wow, how things have changed in 25 yrs
Yeah besides your underwear
Omg the City looks so empty in the 90s... That's absolutely nothing compared to today. But it's really bad that so many beautiful Casinos are gone. I miss Riviera...😞
The uploader says this video was shot at 0600. Trust, the Strip was NOT empty or dead looking during the day and into the night!!!....good times then
Ya Vegas was completely dead in the 90s, must have been nice with no people there, getting dibs on the hottest hoes etc
I remember I went for the 1st time July 4th 1990. It wasn't even crowded.
3:34 My mom and aunt used to take all of us kids to see the show at Treasure Island! A flood of memories came back!
Born and raised here I'm almost 30 now and that's the Treasure Island I remember my favorite just the whole look of it totally different. I like seeing history thanks.
Amazing video. This was a great time to visit, because a whole bunch of new resorts had recently opened. MGM Grand, Excalibur, Luxor, Treasure Island, and Mirage were recent additions in the past 5 years or less. I also love the way Harrahs used to look with the river boat exterior. Crazy to see the Sands where Venentian is currently located. And no Bellagio. My first visit to Vegas was in 1997, so it looked pretty similar to this. Thanks for bringing me back in time!
This really brings a tear to my eye, so much has changed for the worst.
Man up buttercup and get with the times. Stop living in nostalgia
@@brandonsavitski shut up degenerate
Yea now its more reflective of Ninevah
I remember visiting in the late 80s when the Mirage was still under construction. At night it was an assault to the eyes. It took a couple trips to get used to it.
@@spookycrane9318 Brandon’s just jealous his sense of nostalgia will surely suck when he get’s older. These kids today will never know what simplistic times are. Sad if ya think about it.
This vegas looks boring, no people on street handing out escort cards
Indeed that's the only reason I go for the $69 special!!
And why do they always tap them on their hands two or three times before handing them out?
I actually did some research on the people who do that. They always look like theyre from a rough life. Some said they were embarrassed by the work, but they had to do it to make more money. Some said that many of those companies are shady and will find ways to not pay them. Some will purposely look for illegals and then report them a day or two before payday.
@@StuUngar they need to put milk and bread on the table so they need to do what they need to do. That is pretty shady they report them before payday
They got rid of most of the porn card guys. Now just crazy people
I love hookers
Las Vegas got crazier on the setup of the strip. With the resort fees and the lack of free parking, you don't even want to come to the strip
I miss that Vegas.. went there 94-97 three straights years for Super Bowl weekend.. Cheap food, free drinks and just gambling.. Today NO thanks!
Yup, especially since table minimums are normally $15-$25 on the strip for just about everything. Drinks come around super slow. Plus the outrageous resort fees. No comps for free meals or free night stays.
Thanks for the video. Truly a time traveler. Viva Las Vegas
I don't know what I like better: the handheld camera work or the minimal audio. This was great.
Sean P. Best part was when dude laughed after seeing arrest hahah. Great video
Great video, a priceless time capsule!!!
started going here every Memorial Day weekend from 1993 to 2000
always stayed at the Westward Ho between Stardust and Circus Circus
thank you for preserving this era of Vegas
good times and memories
Westward Ho, 5 cent coffee and foot long hotdogs, I miss the Ho.
I was there in March of '93, betting the horses in one of the sportsbooks. James Carville walked up to my seat and asked if he could borrow my Racing Form for a minute. Why he chose to ask me out all the people there I'll never know. 😊
I remember being a travel agent and people asking me to book a room in the rear of the Westward Ho.
I was there the same month and year. I was looking to maybe see myself. No, I was not the guy who was getting detained. LOL
I believe that was police brutality! Lol
I was the King of the games at Circus Circus as a kid. Especially the one where you roll the ball in the hole with a 3, 2 or 1 and the horse would move accordingly. I used to bring so many stuffed animals back home! haha
Sadly, I never won the tall Pink Panther that you get from tossing the softball in the big milk jug. We went for a week every summer and not once in 7 or so years did I win that thing :(
That was my dream. Oh well.
I was 13 then, I remember running around the strip with my friends every summer. Wet n wild on the strip was the best. So many memories. Thanks for posting this.
I always wanted to go! But I was like 5 haha
I remember going there at that time when I was a teenager. The shiny new Pyramid and the awesome castle. Those were my favorites. Luxor and Excalibur are now the cheap places. I've stayed at both in the past 10 years and they are really showing their age. Also, that original Treasure Island sign was the best.
Sucks how both of those beautiful hotels are under such bad maintenance and known as the crumby cheap hotels now
Thank you to whoever put this up. As a born and bred Las Vegan, you brought me back to my childhood. The memories of driving on the strip as a kid with my folks are literally flooding in.
.....I graduated High School, in Las Vegas, in 1972. It was a much nicer place, and even in 1994, it was still " ok ", ... it's saddening to see it today, even though I no longer live there....
Silvestri.... that name sounds very familiar.. 🤔. ;... a long time Las Vegas Family? My children are Las Vegas natives, and cannot believe how dramatically it has changed.... and not for " the better ".
I was there in the early 80's and have always struggled to figure out where the old casinos were located but this helped a lot. Thanks!!
Thank you so much for posting this. It has brought back a lot of memories!!
I haven't been to Vegas in at least 20 years so this is how it still looks in my mind
For me it was good up until 2010.
Its always so interesting to see vintage footage of a place which changes daily.... thanks for posting. Great to see this and the changes which have happened since!
My family and I used to go to vegas every year when I was a teen in the late 80's and early 90's. This brings back so many memories of me staring out the window as we got to the strip and drove by each casino/hotel just like this and would usually stop at the circus circus. Thank you for the memories!
Haha, this brought back so many memories. I turned 21 in '94 and me and a bunch of friends took a little blotter and had planned on going to the old Sharks Club. One buddy and I weren't feeling the vibe of the line or security guards and ended up walking up and down that strip, in and out of hotels for hours and hours. Good times...
A foreign coworker of mine got harassed and threatened by a club security this week
CaliBorn73 I turned 21 in 94 too and went there to celebrate. So much fun. Very different now.
Born and raised in Las Vegas for my entire life. Watching these videos gives me awesome nostalgia trips. Thanks for this.
What an amazing time capsule this is! Thanks for posting!
Wow! I was in my early teens and this really brought back some great memories. Thank you.
SO frigging cool to see this. I was in my 20s during this time. I went to Vegas probably two or three times a year. … I remember so much of this time period. Walk the sidewalks on both sides of the road hundreds of times. So many good memories. I’m glad I got to see Vegas like this… I think of how much it’s changed. I remember picking up the picket signs and walking from one end of the hotel to the other. I went to all those little small businesses in between the casinos so many times… And now they are not there. Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks so much for making this great video. It was like riding down memory lane.
First trip to Vegas was in '93 so this looks very familiar. What's insane is how much it's grown and changed in a mere 30 years.
My 1st trip to Vegas was in 1997 during my honeymoon and stayed at Stardust hotel!!wat a wonderful memory to see the hotel in this vid!!thank you..
Thank you for uploading this video of the strip in the 90s' It wasnt until 2002 that i went to vegas for the first time, at 30yrs old. Wish i would of visited much sooner.
Amazing upload! Insane how much the strip has changed, it looks almost unrecognizable today compared to this - the 90s
This is a great video looking back in time. The Strip has gotten so congested now with buildings and other things. And most of the neon and flashing lights are gone, too. Sad to see the neon go but times do change, I guess.
Beautiful film. Thank you for posting this!
Great video Trevor.....I went in '87, I was 17. I saw $1.99 steak and eggs on the menu and was floored! Waitress told me it comes with 2 eggs, steak, grits and toast. You want one? I said...I'll take 4!
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Amazing. My family has been going to vegas every christmas since 1992 so this is so nostalgic to see
1990 was the 1st time for me. But 1992 is when I got hooked on Vegas. The last time I did not go to Las Vegas was 2009.
I still recall this year like it was yesterday. Gosh…Did we ever think you would miss this time SO much? I am joyful that a small piece of it is captured here. Probably on VHS cassette yes? Cheers.
I worked at the STARDUST from 1987 to 1998. Thank you for sharing such Great memories!
This is great! My first trip was in 1999 and so much had changed even by then. I loved when themes were everywhere and every square-frickin-inch didn't have to be retail space or overpriced restaurants. I miss Aladdin and the original Treasure Island. I know it's much more shopping and nightclub driven and there is less gambling than ever, but I do get really nostalgic about the earlier era.
Treasure Island was so DOPE in it's original conception. It's so sad to me that they pulled out the show.
Wow this is so cool that you have this footage! We moved to Vegas in 1996 when I was 10. This is totally how I remembered it. I went last year and it was a whole new place, I was lost! It looks so empty in the video, everything is so spaced out. Now it’s so congested! Great video!!
yup. I was just in vegas in july 2022 and everything is so cramped even when there arent many people walking. The major casinos really retrofitted a lot of crap attached to the casinos and it killed the openness and overall walking space. To me it just feels so unnecessary what they did.
The biggest casinos are just oversized shopping malls...
The most comfort I had in vegas was walking into the dumpy circus circus, the slots were looser, we enjoyed the arcade above the casino, and it was just an overall good time for me at least.
Thanks, your video brings back a lot of memories. I was a college student in Vegas during this time.
Just remembering the Algiers Casino brought back so many childhood memories. I love Vegas back in the day. Thank you for posting this memorable gem.
Miss the Sands and Dunes, Stardust. I'm going to post a video of the grand opening of the original MGM. Everyone went to see the $50K chandeliers that hung
over the main casino floor.
People have 50k chandeliers in their houses now..
This was in the 70s that the first one opened
It's hard to contemplate those large empty areas and parking lots between the big hotels. Great job, whomever recorded this. I love seeing the Stratosphere tower being built.
This is one month before I graduated high school there in Henderson. It's the Vegas I remember growing up. Thanks for this, it's a heck of trip down memory lane.
vividly remember the strip like this in 1994, many good memories..
That month and year was when i got married this april will be 26 yrs iv been married to my amazing beutiful wife and we will be there as we do every year on our anniversary
This was very interesting. Everything was so huge and grand! There were crosswalks and parking lots! The guy getting arrested was interesting lol. Loved it.
I think most of the change is that the pedestrian bridges block the sightlines down the Strip (and the center margin and the palm trees don't help in that regard). A lot of medium-sized buildings also got built close to the street, lending to a sense of closeness (or claustrophobia) and obscuring just how gargantuan the hotel tower blocks behind them actually are.
Daym. This was the Vegas I remember from my first visit. Before it was over built to the point where you can no longer see the horizon when on the Strip. This video is awesome!!!
I used to stay at the Frontier casino hotel as a child. Brings back Soo many memories. Thanks whoever uploaded this clip.
Wow! What a jewel of a video!!
1:34 Fastest light change in history
Wow. loved seeing this. thank you for sharing!
If we saw this quality and footage in the 90's, we would have thought it was from the 70's. Amazing changes over time.... and as I age.
I enjoyed this video so much. This is the Vegas I remember. We started going yearly in the early 90s and stopped going in the late 90s. Such fond memories of Westward Ho and Fremont St. I was a teenager so the thing that impressed me most was the cost of food. We got breakfast buffets for 2.99, shrimp cocktail for .99. I remember the grand opening of the Hard Rock. What else? Oh when they had the plane sticking out of The Sands, for Con Air. Wow, sooooo many treasured memories.
The same with me and my friends we started going 1990. Why did you stop going to Vegas.
Was just at the Mirage last week and it really is impressive how well they keep up that place. You look at it in this video and at that time it was one of the newest properties on the strip and even to this day I’d say it’s still in the top 5
Same with MGM. MGM is one of my favorite hotel casinos on the strip. Always clean and maintains a modern look.
I had a conference at NY and that place was the shits
StuUngar I like MGM but I prefer to be more north on the strip. I like to casino hop and there’s just really not many I like around MGM. Mandalay is nice but even that’s a hike
I'll be there Father's Day weekend can't wait.
Enjoy while it lasts as it will be mostly torn down and replaced with a stupid guitar shaped tower.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Yeah :\ Like sure, do a guitar shaped casino but don't replace Mirage! We made sure to watch the volcano show in case that gets removed.
Very cool! My first visit to Las Vegas was in 2005 and fell in love with the city ever since.
AWESOME VIDEO, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE HOW SMALL THE STRIP WAS IN 1994. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
Living and working in Vegas in the 90s, for me, was extremely good and fun. But the NIGHTS!!!! Oh man,! After we closed the bar @ 2:00am, we would go to the clubs, get industry comps, take"X", and dance and laugh till afternoon! Especially at the club UTOPIA!!!! WOOOOOOO!!! Shout-out to Dave! He was the man to know back then!!
Damn I feel old...🤔
LOLOS and in the 90's, you could eat a good breakfast for $1.99! Food in Vegas ain't cheap anymore like it once was!
Yes! For us it was always @Drais after 2am(the after party) 🤫🤩
LOLOS
Lived there at that time. The only real club back then was “The Club”. So much fun then.
Wow, you must be cool.