What a great time. I'm glad I was part of it. Smaller community. So much fun. Now it's just another large city with big city problems. Sadly it will never be the same.

We lived in Vegas while I was in first, second, and third grade, so that was 1957 till 1960. I remember my mom worked as a cashier at the Nevada Club. I also remember when the Stardust was right on the Strip, and it had a drive-in movie. The Flamingo had a obelisk with bubble lights. I learned to spell bubble when I was six! I also remember the huge open spaces between casinos on the Strip. I've been there as an adult and visited my grammar school, Tom Williams. When I went there (the year it opened 1957) it was in the middle of desert! Now it's in a neighborhood with huge trees around it! Vegas is too "showy" for me now. I like remembering how it was.

Wow thanks for the memories this was great. I was 22 yrs. old and came to Vegas in 1969 and there wasn't a lot to do for a young man so I didn't stay. I came here to check it out and ended up in L.A.. Came back in 88 and have been here since. I must say, I liked the old Vegas much better, I can't stand to go to the strip now days.

It took me over one hour to view this video. I had to keep pausing to look at the details. That picture of Caesars being built with nothing but desert all the way to Red Rock was amazing. The Landmark. The Strip, full of vacant lots and gas stations between the hotels. Amazing. Thanks.

What a magical time it must have been to live in Las Vegas back then.

I moved there in January 1964, I was 22 yrs old. What a great town it was to call home.

Wonderful video! Loved that people dressed up back then - wish they still did.

I've lived in Las Vegas since 1965. My mom worked as a hairdresser on several of the Las Vegas Strip's biggest and most famous production shows ... P'zzazz '68 at the Desert Inn, the Lido at the Stardust, just to name two. The sixties and seventies were grand decades to be part of this magnificent city ... if we could only go back to those semi-innocent-seeming days ... oh my!

I landed in Las Vegas Dec 1979 upon serving in the US AIR Force...such great memories then, was there at the MGM fire in 1980, recently moved from there...The town had its heyday in the 50s and 60s. It's been all downhill the last 10 years...

I have lived in LasVegas for over 20+years, this was AWSOME To Watch- I LoVe Old LasVegas History...

When you see the people in the casinos back then nearly all the ladies were dressed up and the men wore suit and ties.

I find the music and photos just go so well together. I've never been to Vegas, but it's still on my bucket list. Been to Reno a few times, but not since the 70s. Hopefully I'll get there sooner or later 😉

When I first moved to Vegas it was small and cozy. It was compromised of 3 types 1. Locals who were compulsive gamblers. 2. The local weekend light player 3. Those that used the big money they made at work to build a good life for themselves and didn't gamble. When I lived there once you got past Decatur it became pretty barren.

The nostalgia is soooooo thick.. and beautiful!!

My first trip to Vegas was 1988....So many changes since then! Great Video!!!

the cars oh my gosh the cars that's why I watch all vintage shows and been living in Vegas since 1983. used to love it not so much anymore.

It had more character back then. Now it's just a big, corporate, sterile disneyesque tourist trap.

I remember "Vegas Vic." The neon lit animated cowboy outside the old Pioneer Club. He spoke the words, "Howdy Partner."

Thank you Las Vegas for making us apart of your history.

I love this..thanks for taking the time to make it ..Great music..These were truly the good old days..Miss them!!!

Just saw this video. What a SERIOUSLY FUN look back, thank you!!!

Vegas World, Marina hotel & Stardust remind me of my Dad&Moms. 😊 thank you

The first time I visited Las Vegas was with my family, in 1975. I live in Nevada now, and Las Vegas looks so much different now.

GREAT video what a great collection LOVED IT! Excellent background music as well...

A view into a window of past............ thank you for sharing. greetings from Naples (Italy) :-)

That was the BEST opening ever!!!!! (How the hell did HE get in there?!?!)-Great photos!!!!! Thanks for bringing back GOOD MEMORIES!!!!!!!!

I remember. Las Vegas in the 70's 's to now I was a kid in the 1971 I only 5 years. Old now it has fallen big time Vegas isn't the same anymore

Absolutely fabulous photos...I though I knew a lot about Vegas of the 40s-50s-60s, including downtown and the strip...but I never realized how many beautiful motels were out there on the Strip between and amongst the famous big name Hotels/Casinos...Thanks so much for posting!!

0:24 The Kings Row Mobile park is still there. Seems the Sunset park became the Showboat and now both are long gone. My uncle lived across Charleston from the Showboat. He and his place are gone as well. Ah, memories. Land Mark Hotel's grand opening, finally, after sitting dormant for 6 plus years after construction was completed; mom telling how there were miles of Flamingo adverts along the highway leading in to town from LA.... Thanks for making this video even if I'm almost 8 years late in seeing it.

Ty for posting. Great pics from a grand time.

Thank You for sharing the sights You have I miss the old and still love the new , no matter what VEGAS has my Heart for a place to LIVE day or night , been here since 1958

My first trip to Las Vegas was in 1957 as a driver for National Car Rental, transporting a new 1957 chevy to Indian Springs, about 35 miles North of Vegas, a military base. I was a 17 yr old senior at North Phoenix HS. They fed us lunch, gave us a few bucks and via bus back to Phoenix, stopped on Fremont street for a couple of hours to rubberneck. Even though I was only 5'9" tall and looked like I was 12, my fellow drivers encouraged me to step inside a downtown casino and play the slots. My 25cent bet returned about $7. I was a hero all the way back to Phoenix.

Never knew there was a golf course once at the Tropicana. Enjoyed this. Nice beginning. :)

Back in the early 2000's I used to live next door to the daughter of Thomas Hull the man who built the El Rancho in 41 the first hotel on the strip. This womans name was Brooks Morgan hull who cared for her elderly mother who was in her early 90s and every once in awhile shed look out at the strip from their apartment and say "Just look at what we started!!!"

Luv that blast from the past. That was how it was. My dear friends Bev and Chuck Shields moved from my hometown of Buffalo in 1980 to Vegas. They showed photos of Beverly and friends in evening gowns from the sixties. Ladies and gentlemen always dressed 4 dinner and a show. What a riot. Now girls in daisy dukes and guys in flip flops standing in line 4 a buffet. Years later I moved into Kings Row where they owned a unit and shown here it is still in business. I've been retired now 4 seven yrs in Vegas from Buffalo. Sadly they are both gone now but oh what memories I have of them both.

Wonderful, thanks, what memories!

Vegas used to be so nice and have so much character. Now it's just garbage. An over-glorified shopping mall.

Back in 1954, I remember looking south from the Sands Hotel and see nothing but small motels with the Hacienda looming high over the desert. The Tropicana must not have been built as I don't remember seeing it. I miss the old Las Vegas.

It*s nice to remember those iconic places like Dessert Inn, Sands, Dunes, Caesars among others, now a lot of the iconic places have dissapeared to make way for bigger.& family oriented hotels, like Circus Circus, Mirage, Bellagio, among others, some of the still original places are Caesars Palace, Flamimg Hilton, among others.

Very fun. I remember the gas stations right on the strip, next to the hotels.

My family moved to vegas from Italy in 1946. Been here ever since. Back then you could walk the streets go to the corner store without fearing for your life.

Love how the slot machines didn’t have chairs. Guess they realized people sitting while playing made them more relaxed and spend more.

love these time capsules

I would have loved to see it back than..the only downside for me would have been the cigarette smoke. My mom who visited Vegas starting in the late 60's till just a couple years ago said the smoke was brutal and she was a smoker. She said non smoking was unheard of back than. Still would have been cool to see it back than though.

Sigh. Memories. The Glass Pool Inn closed in 2003 and was demolished the following year. It was out of town compared to the larger hotels on the strip and was my signpost that we had arrived.

I would have given anything to seen vegas back then....I was born in the wrong time sadly...

This is a fine video! Very nicely done! Enjoyable,relaxing and speaks to you! Great professional quality. A great time capsule of photos worthy of it's own place!

Awesom video! Great music. Loved the Glen Lerner bit at the very beginning. LOL

Awesome photos. Nice to see what the old Vegas (especially Fremont St./ Lot 16) looked like. Pete Fountain at 2.27, nice!

Rooms $10 to $16. Amazing!

Thanks for the amazing video! Would love to see more!

Wow would love to visited back then when things were clean and exciting not like today all corporate and boreing

I've been in Vegas since 83. Thanks for the post.

Glen Lerner, lol! I live here now and it's fun to see the history.

At one time The Plaza was the worlds largest casino, now many tribal casinos are even larger than The Plaza.

Thanks for all the memories

I LOVED old Las Vegas. I moved here in March 1991. In this slideshow, at the 5:57 mark, there is a photo of the Marina Hotel. That hotel was either still operational or had just closed it's doors in 1991, BUT, little known fact. the tower still stands! It is now the West Wing tower/rooms of the MGM Grand. Facade has changed, but the interior had not changed (except for remodel, but the structure is still the same)!

2:02 Love the see the Plymouth fury and Edsel in the back

That was a different Vegas. Now everything was either gone or have a different look. There were several pictures of motel. Many visitors might stay in motel at that era. Those bikini girl still look hot in today's standard. Thank you for sharing.

Looks pretty awesome back in the day 🤘🏻

I wish photos of "regular" LV stuff - not just the hotels and motels - had been included in this video. I grew up there and while these places were important to the economy of LV, they weren't important in my world.

Perfect music!

Truly Dazzling, Thanks for the post.

Love the history of my city. Love how it is now.

Would’ve been a hell of a great time back then! Now it’s sucks!

My uncle Hoss was a pit manager at the Orbit Inn hotel during the 70's.

What was the sultry swinging big band number playing in the background? Great job. Many thanks.

Love the old neon signage it was better when the mob ran it it had character now it's a corporate dump hole-now

I'm 36(2019) and I barley remember being Abel 2 drive on Fremont(the part where the "experience" is now. I'm 2nd gen born n vegas and my grandpa moved here n 1953 from a tiny ass town n north Dakota. man I wish I could have hung out with him back then. well I wish I could have hung out more with him n general.

Loved it, well done !

That horse and rider from the Hacienda sign is still around and lit up at night . It is a the intersection of Freemont St & Las Vegas Blvd

Very nostalgic...loved it!

Great work !

Excellent, Thanks for sharing :)

thanks bro las vegas is my love

Fascinating to see the development through a few decades, one thing remains the same.......... you still leave with empty pockets

Miami had the look and feel and "service with a smile" exactly like Vegas in the 1960s. Not its a decayed wasteland of drug addicts and angry people in general

Much Nostalgia.....So swank

You did a great job making this video!

Love the intro. Lmao

That was awesome !!!

Really enjoyed watching that

The intro is pure comedy

Thank you

Song that starts at 1:58 , sounds like Glenn Miller's Pennsylvania 6-5000 , not sure who's version of its playing here , pretty sure the song at 4:30 is called " Take the A Train " , another big band song redone here

Great video love to see history wish I was around to see that instead of the fake Vegas it is today.

At 5:13 the brand new Caesars Palace under construction. Across the street is the Flamingo tower, which was lighted from top to bottom at night.

Is like favorite las vegas photos!!!! :D

Loved it thankyou 👍🏻

Great video! Thanks for putting this together and sharing it with us. :-) What's the name of the song used from 2:00-4:28? I'd love to download it if I can. Thanks again! :-)

Great stuff !

Those were the days when people dressed up to go out at night! As a youngster in the 50's visiting Las Vegas with my family for the first time, I remember Fremont Street was the main street in Las Vegas. We stayed at a motel that had a big lawn in the front and a huge swimming pool in the back. I imagine this was around the Fremont Street area. Tony Heish, who owned Zappo's, wanted to bring back all those now boarded up and vacant motels around Fremont Street to their prior glory, but he died too young to conplete his vision. His family had no interest in his vision and sold the land he owned back to the City of Las Vegas. IMO Fremont Street was ruined when it was covered over and a zip line installed. Now Fremont Street looks like an arcade. One or two of the original old motels still are arouond but most have demolished or boarded up and left to ruin.

I WAS IN VEGAS BACK THEN, BEEN IN EVERYONE OF THE CASINOS AND HOTELS. I LIVED AT THE GLASS POOL RIGHT ACROSS LV BLVD FROM THE HICENDIA. WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE IN VEGAS, NOW IT SUCKS.

Superb!

Awesome video plus music. I love that good mood happy jazz, swing, blues. Back then even in 1995 when I visited LV first, one could still stroll along the strip. But now HUGE buildings are lined up right along the street with long closed facades. Highly unattractive. They should convert the entire strip to a pedestrian area with a free quiet electric hop on hop off tram circulating. Cars should drive in the back only.

Does anyone know the jazz musicians are?

alot of the Fremont Street shots are from the 1940s

And the bean-counters f****d it up !!!

*At (1:44) that's the 'Fifth Street School' and all of fascia you see were glass-blocks set into the walls* *The school became the 'Clark County Courthouse Annex' in the 1970's*

Love it!