What are your memories of growing up in Las Vegas?
I grew up in Las Vegas during the 1960s and some of the 1970s, when the city was smaller and the population was much smaller. We lived at a various times, in three distinctly different parts of town.
We originally lived on Magnet Street in North Town, just off Las Vegas Blvd. North. There was an Arctic Circle drive-in across the highway that featured cold drinks, ice cream and hamburgers. We were not to cross the Blvd. without an adult.
There was a Wimpy's nearby and a small motor lodge motel. I went to Quannah S. McCall grade school with the owners' daughter.
Wimpy's in 2010
I remember the stricken look on my teacher's face as she announced that President John Kennedy had been shot and killed in Dallas and we were all to go home right away.
In 1963 we moved on up to Charleston Heights which at that time, to a youngster, seemed like traveling to the far side of the moon.
There was an air-raid signal atop my elementary school, Rose Warren, in Charleston Heights. We were for years, the last house on Bristol Way and beyond us, it was desert all the way to the Calico Basin with a couple of bars and maybe a gas station or two in between. There was no Charleston Rainbow housing development back then, we were the end of the line.
The rest of the story is here:
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Be sure to share your memories with us!
LasVegasLynn
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Broadway in Las Vegas- Remember When?
We have a new gallery of show programs from some of the Broadway musicals that played the showrooms on the Las Vegas Strip back in the 1960s/1970s including this gem with Juliet Prowse:
If you saw any of these shows back then or worked on them, we want to hear from you!
It's all up on the new blog at classiclasvegasblog.com
When the Beatles played Las Vegas
Fifty years ago this Wednesday, the Beatles performed onstage at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the old Rotunda. We look back at that night with those who were there.
Interviews with Stan Irwin, the man responsible (along with Herb MacDonald) for signing the Beatles, Don English, the Las Vegas News Bureau photographer who shot many of the iconic photos from that visit, Bill Conger of the LV Sheriff's Department who was working that night and those who were in the audience!
It's all up on the new blog at ClassicLasVegasblog.com
Do You have stories?
Did you work on the Las Vegas Strip any time between 1940-1975?
We are working on a new project and would love to talk to people who worked on the Strip during those years (or whose parents did).
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Thanks in advance!
