I was 5yrs old in 68. My parents and Gramma use to go alot and take me. I love old Vegas

What an absolute treasure you have preserved and shared with us. I never wanted it to end, and it truly transported me back in time. It's just the way I remember it from so many moons ago. Thank you !

Look at those fountains. Evel Knievel tried unsuccessfully to jump those on a crude twin Triumph with ancient suspension just the previous year. It still boggles my mind, a former motorcycle racer, that he even considered such a thing to be feasible.

So many wonderful memories of a Las Vegas that no longer exists. Thank you

This is fantastic! The International Hotel footage is actually from 1969 when the hotel opened. I actually attended that show with my family seeing Nancy Sinatra, The Osmonds, and Mac Davis. I have a postcard that was laying on the table. I also have the sticker that I wore on my shirt from the Youth Hotel. I was eight years old. Amazing memories that I think about often. 😎

I remember most of those old casinos. I lived there until I was about nine or ten years old. I recall how hot it was there and playing in the desert with my sister. My mom worked at the Riveria and the Sahara Hotels. It's nice to reminisce about old memories. Wouldn't want to live there again though.

Wow I totally remember the giant Aladdin now that you show it. Ahhhhhh memories.

I went to a Las Vegas in the 90's video, and it went to an 80's, then a 70's, then this. Even the film difference between all of them is fun to watch.

I was 18 years old .18 years of my life. Thi is my town my home the good year's and now its like Disneyland from a 72 year old native .been there and zine it my home

8mm film archive. August 1969. The International Hotel & Casino opened July 2. 1969. Nancy Sinatra headlined in August of that year. The "old town" was a display at Fort Lucinda Casino just west of Hoover Dam, today's Hoover Dam Lodge. Great video.

I was there only last week. Crazy. Looks cooler back then

I truly miss this Vegas

Precious footage

So Classic

Absolutely beautiful

My house was 4 years old,Circus Circus was brand new then,lots of desert just like I saw growing up!!

What memories...thank you!

My family has been in Vegas since 1929. This film footage was taken 1 year before I existed on this planet. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you. I Like to wonder what my Grandparents were doing when all these clips were taken. My grandfather was somewhere at work running their plastering business. His 120-man crew did the Sands and the Stardust. When they were building them, he always told me the MOB guys paid Good money for their Jobs as long as you were honest with them. They took good care of you. If you weren't truthful, they would take care of you not in a Good way

Thank you for giving us a glimpse of old vegas

World wouldnt be the same without LAS VEGAS. ❤️ Thank you for this amazing video.

Great video ! My family moved to Vegas in 1967, the video shows the Vegas I fell in love with. THX FOR SHARING...♡

Freakin' awesome!!!! Why? Well, the obvious - old 60's Vegas saved on 8mm, but, the individual talking the footage had the experience and smarts to pan the camera slowly☺️. Thank you for sharing!

The Las Vegas that us old-timers love. Thanks for posting. There was an Old Town or western fort like structure along Boulder Highway, on the way to Hover Dam.

I love the Hoover dam footage!

So very cool to see all this. I totally remember it!! It was so vastly different then!!

Amazing. In the middle of a desert, this ...CITY! It must have been mind boggling. Thanks for the history show .

69 Chrysler in parking lot so this film is likely September 68 at earliest. Thanks for posting

15 years before I was born at women's hospital, which no longer exists like most of these buildings. Pretty interesting!

Judging by the cars in the parking lot, this is at the earliest 1969.

Amazing how much larger the international hotel is than anything else in the area, people like to say Mirage started the mega resort boom, but the international must have been the definition of mega resort in the late 60s

*Guess what?* *That 'mint-green '68 'LTD' wagon was my/our family car!* @ 0:44...it may well have been my mother there working at the 'Gift Shop' that was operated inside Caesars by 'Host International'.

Thanks for the post. A city and area that is much changed.

I love this so much. The International is in this so 1969 onward is my guess. Nancy Sinatra definitely headlined there that year.

awsom video thank you for the memories.

I miss the old portions of Vegas that I do remember...

wow it's nice to see my hometown .in the year i was born amazing

Awesome video! It’s so neat to see how it used to look. Thank you for sharing!

Think you so much 🤗❤👍

It's interesting to see that the International hotel turned into the Las Vegas Hilton

When new first moved to Las Vegas my father played piano at the Cleopatras Barge it was at the far north end of the hotel and it exited into a gravel lot which is now the Forum Shops....

Thanks for the video, nice to see the good old days!

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

Wish we could go back

Ya got the HOT right..119 a week ago...lived here since 2003....first time for me to see Vegas was 1969 to see Elvis... I was 19 and I remember saying who would ever wanna live way out here...lol I was born in Bay Area

Awesome footage 🤩👍.

i got recomended this while listening to "I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind " it's beautiful

From master Tiger "Thompson taekwondo las Vegas I came here in 1994 but this video is Amazing

Thanks 🙏 for this video

Just think all those cars in the parking lot are now big dollar collectables!

Beautiful video amazing

I saw Nancy Sinatra at the International Hotel. I don't remember the exact year, but it may have been 1968.

Great video .... thanks!

great video Thank you!

I see Nancy Sinatra on the billboard of the International, which opened in 1969, and Nancy performed there in 1971. This film is dated 1968.

At 0:45 the Griswalds were there!

Thank You

That golf course was the Desert Inn.

Several of the names on the signs date this to late August-early September 1969

Love the music...

Cadillacs, Lincoln Continentals everywhere, and a brand new 1968 red Volkswagen bug. Gas was 17 cents a gallon for regular/ 93 octane & 21 cents per gallon for premium/ hi -test @ 103 octane, Most casinos had 39 cent bacon & eggs breakfast & steak and eggs for 79 cents, included toast, hash browns & coffee. Minimum wage was .95 cents an hour and average 1 bedroom furnished apartment within walking distance of the strip went for $50-$75 per month during season. $10 a month less for off season or year round rentals. $160- $200 a month was average tourist industry wage , not including tips. 50% of your check went to rent, utilities & groceries, 25% went to personal maintenance like gasoline, laundry, alcohol, gambling and 25% could actually go in the bank on a good month or more if you didn't have a car or alcohol/ gambling habits. Though if you gambled drinks were free until you were drunk, broke or both.

International Hotel. Was where Elvis performed. From 1969. And throughout the 70s.

Love this music

Harry and Lena ! Wish I could go !

NICE !

I can only imagine if someone restored, stabilized, cleaned up the grainy quality of the film frames and sped up the frame rate to 60 FPS using something like Adobe Premiere Pro and Dain App to make the film look very realistic and make it feel more like something filmed in the present day, that would be really cool!

I congratulate you on a well done vid

Beautiful memories friends god bless you

A much better place to visit back then. So overwhelming with way too much high density and a lot less lights

Cool👍vid💕 wow before lv Hilton it was international hotel

The Circus Circus didn’t open until 1970,and I see 1972&1973 Lincoln Continentals in this footage.

The good ole Vegas...

nICE VIDEOS!

Starring Hunter S. Thompson

It’s too bad the large casinos moved in here now you got to pay for drink out of plastic that to cost you $50 bucks, change the rules on the blackjack and other games so it’s almost virtually impossible to win. They took the fun out of Vegas instead of remembering your name they ask for your players card and you’re just a number to them.😅

Interesting video thanks

Built Circus circus October 1968

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I was there then....it was a lot of fun...Today...eh....

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Sorry the old strip is just under an umbrella and full of x rated stuff now. But I remember the lights and fun even though I was kid.

Ah, the Stardust. Back then when you could walk in and cheat at Blackjack and get offered the hammer to the fingers and the money, or just walk away, but not both.

The good old times in the real U.S.A.

Hello, I Love your old film footage. Would you mind if I used some of the footage in a music video? Thank you. Sincerely Edward

And most of the cars air conditioned by having 4 windows down and going 60 MPH! and I wonder if there was very many hobos laying around and sleeping in boxes in those days?

Great video, just wished the music hadn't been added. Would have been fine with no sound.

When the Dunes came down and the Bellagio went up in its place, is about the time Vegas lost its soul. They should have at the Mirage when it came to mega resorts. The vibe is so lame now.

That was in it’s prime, down hill ever since

I saw a '69 Cadillac Sedan Deville so it wasn't 1968, lol

Family truckster spotted

Wow...even then Circus Circus was still a DUMP.

What did they smear all over the lens chicken grease? Its all blurry

7:35 I wonder if Barbara Eden was allowed to show her navel in Vegas. Damn!! All that footage of the Hoover Dam, I wish he would have shown the water level on the other side so I could see how much it's dropped.

Judging by the cars I would say 1970 or later

Imagine it sitting in pool with drink watching an explosion in the distance

1850s School, Great

0:42 looks like a 69' or 70 Chrysler 300.

Vegas was a place where mostly decent WASP people would go and spend ungodly amounts of money on food and entertainment then return to their whitebread meccas. They would see "dark" people sing or entertain and say that they were inclusive. My folks talked about going out there when was about 2 years old. Memories you have at that age are sketchy but I do remember being in a casino. I get a really strange dejavue at Tropicana. Mom said we stayed at a dive motel south of it.

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