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Las Vegas: A Pictorial Look Back

Continuing our walk down Memory Lane:


Here is a row of houses in early Las Vegas.  The idea that no one lived here is just a myth.  People came to Las Vegas for the land auction in May, 1905 and began carving a community out of the harsh desert almost immediately.








The Las Vegas Grammar School.  The cornerstone was laid in 1910 and the school opened in 1911.  Students from across the Valley were invited to attend.  The school burned down in 1935 and was rebuilt as a sturdier structure that is currently being restored by the City of Las Vegas.





Before Vegas Vic became the iconic neon sign on Fremont Street a similar image was used by the
Chamber of Commerce and businesses around town to promote the city.  Here is a postcard from the
Old West Motel on South Fifth Street.  Today Fifth Street is better known as Las Vegas Blvd. South.

Special thanks to the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas for letting us use these images.

Posted on Monday, September 8, 2008 at 2:10PM by Registered CommenterLasVegasLynn in , , | Comments1 Comment

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You forgot a huge part of my family's history, we owned Scott's photo shop on main st my grandmother ran it in the fifties across from cashman Cadillac, and also Scott's Trailer market changing in the 70's to Scotts mobile homes 2020 E. Fremont also her sister, my aunt Phyllis Baldwin had Baldwins Mobile Homes 1732 E Fremont, also my Grandmother announced the parades atop our photo shop on main next to the corner pharmacy, before we relocated to Charlestown, and she was a big participant in all the parades, also at the same time she was one of the founders of the Lake Mead Yacht Club, they all retired in the late 80's, but I'm still here tending bat at Irnen's Cocktail Lounge for 14 years, my grandmothers name Donna Maxine Scott daughter of Earl P. Scott, and Cora Blanche Scott who was the oldest mobile home dealer in Las Vegas in the 70's, so there is a lot more I could say, on my fathers side which my dad was class of 49 from Las Vegas High School, my mother, class of 53, Las Vegas High, his father helped run the ranch were UNLV sits today, his mother lived in the tiny apartments behind Jackie Gaughns El Cortez, and there is so much more
January 23, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterAlisa Joy Liston

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