Vegas Oasis

10/31/2023

Balance of haunted house in daylight

10/28/2023

Evening tour of front yard grave yard...

10/28/2023

Front yard set for haunted house

10/28/2023

Graveyard video front yard

10/27/2023

I've decided to post some pics of our child friendly haunted house this year on Vegas Oasis! This is 13th year of operation (lucky 13:)

06/29/2023

Las Vegas on Monday failed to reach 100 degrees, meaning the area broke a record.

05/21/2023

https://www.facebook.com/100057261865842/posts/734111738507548/?mibextid=CDWPTG

The Atomic Age truly was unlike any other time in history💥⚛️

In this photo, actor and comedian Danny Thomas posed outside of the Nevada Test Site in May 1957 for a staged photo that would be placed in the Sands casino's time capsule to preserve the memory of nuclear testing outside of Las Vegas.

05/12/2023

04/10/2023

Imagine Las Vegas pool season... while watching atomic bombs detonate at the nearby Nevada Test Site.

Pictured here are guests at the Last Frontier pool watching a mushroom cloud rise from the Simon Test, part of Operation Upshot-Knothole conducted in April 1953.

📸: LVCVA News Bureau

04/04/2023

Las Vegas Strip, 1954. This is the area south of the Flamingo at present-day Tropicana Ave, looking north. Places identified in comments ...

03/20/2023

Caesars Palace construction, March 1966

Dunes golf course on the left. Not much to see in Spring Valley. Recently opened I-15, which did not yet pass through downtown. Shell station under construction, lower right. Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau.

02/14/2023

March 6, 1966, Las Vegas, Nev. -- Landmark tower -- that's what it is called -- is nothing more than a landmark in Las Vegas (Nev.) shopping center.
It is Nevada's tallest unused and unoccupied structure. It was intended as a hotel.
AP Wirephoto

09/30/2022

Fall is in full swing at the Bellagio as the conservatory and botanical gardens has uunviled

09/23/2022

The Strip, Summer 1967. Las Vegas News Bureau photographer zooms in from a vantage point at the Dunes hotel tower. The photo is from a collection of aerial photos posted in celebration of the News Bureau's 75th anniversary:

https://lvcva.com/who-we-are/75th-anniversary-gallery-aerials/

08/21/2022

Vegas Showgirls - sunbathing, back in the day...

Showgirls by the pool, Las Vegas, August 1958. Photo by Allan Grant, LIFE. The women's names are unknown. The location has been identified as the home of burlesque producer Harold Minsky, 5712 Kelley Ln (demolished; now part of the airport).

Below is our original caption which focused on a different neighborhood:

The legend of “Naked City” – the neighborhood behind the Stratosphere – says the area was nicknamed in the 60s because of its sunbathing showgirls at various apartments. But is the story true? The answers I've gotten are mixed. The phrase comes from a book, movie, and TV series – it's shorthand for lawless inner city – and the earliest I can trace the name being used in print for Las Vegas is 1982 when crime was soaring in this neighborhood. More info in comments.

https://vintagelasvegas.com/post/693138967155097600/1958

08/06/2022

Aku Aku at the Stardust, Summer 1960.

The restaurant opened earlier at year. Several of these Easter Island replica statues carved by Eli Hedley stood around and in the restaurant. After the restaurant closed c. 1980, the main, 30-foot statue in front stayed on site until '87 when it was donated to Clark County. The county placed the statue the following year at Sunset Park, where it remains today.

08/05/2022

Centerfold Casino, 1975 – aka Bonanza Gifts.

08/05/2022

The International, Aug. 4, 1969 vintagelasvegas.com

07/28/2022

07/09/2022

On July 7, 1930, construction began on the Boulder Dam, now designated as the Hoover Dam. Construction took 5 years, which was two years ahead of schedule and millions of dollars under budget!

It took 5 million barrels of cement, 18 million pounds of structural steel, 21 million pounds of gates and valves, and 840 miles of pipe to build the dam. The project averaged over 3,500 workers a day.

07/09/2022

July 8, 1999

03/12/2022

Paradise Road, 1963. Landmark hotel would remain unfinished for another 6 years.

01/09/2022

Red skies at night in Vegas

12/28/2021

12/25/2021

A trio of travelers stop for a photo with a Nevada roadside mileage sign 291 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada c. late 1940's/early 50's.

12/23/2021

The Boulder Canyon Project Act passed the Senate on December 14, 1928, the House on December 18, and was signed by President Calvin Coolidge on December 21 that year. This historic legislature made way for the building of Hoover Dam. Visit https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/history/articles/chrono.html for more historic dates.

📷 by Bureau of Reclamation.

12/06/2021

Rare snow in Vegas…

I’ve been in town twice when this has happened in the last 16 years…