Drive up the Las Vegas Strip - April 1994

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  • @K-ward
    @K-ward Před 5 lety +2276

    And to this day the Circus Circus still haven't cleaned the carpets since this was filmed!!

    • @stevefranklin8052
      @stevefranklin8052 Před 5 lety +87

      Bullshit remark, they spent millions rehabbing the place about 5 years ago. It just fine. You guys bitch about how its changed, and bitch about the ones that are still standing for 50 years . Make up your minds.

    • @joshuatraffanstedt2695
      @joshuatraffanstedt2695 Před 4 lety +19

      We used to stay at the circus circus

    • @PappaGiorgio87
      @PappaGiorgio87 Před 4 lety +44

      Steve Franklin Circus Circus still has that 90s vibe its cool!

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 Před 4 lety +8

      Do the dealers still wear those big polka dot shirts? 😊

    • @smug8567
      @smug8567 Před 4 lety +11

      Never will. Needs to be imploded.

  • @Pistonbilly
    @Pistonbilly Před 4 lety +1101

    A split screen of this with a 2020 repeat trip would be really cool

    • @goosechickinpox7538
      @goosechickinpox7538 Před 4 lety +76

      Too bad the traffic of the 2020 cam won’t allow to flow side by side. He’ll have to speed it up

    • @groverX56
      @groverX56 Před 4 lety +24

      Barely any traffic in the morning

    • @wigglytoto
      @wigglytoto Před 4 lety +79

      I live in Vegas, I can most likely make it happen when I get a chance

    • @bluestreak168
      @bluestreak168 Před 4 lety +3

      @@goosechickinpox7538 it's possible!

    • @lgrdo2149
      @lgrdo2149 Před 4 lety +6

      Well I know what I’m doing ! I live here

  • @lvthud
    @lvthud Před 4 lety +634

    And not a single Walgreens/CVS to be seen, how times change.

    • @ELEMUSIQ5
      @ELEMUSIQ5 Před 4 lety +1

      Happy Harry's

    • @YesDaddyTDPop
      @YesDaddyTDPop Před 4 lety +25

      Don’t forget about all of the Starbucks we have now on the strip

    • @MoosePolo
      @MoosePolo Před 4 lety +11

      People gotta get their drugs in vegas

    • @basitk12
      @basitk12 Před 4 lety +1

      dave smith more mom and pop places.

    • @Veaseify
      @Veaseify Před 4 lety

      I think there was a Walgreen's in the Carnival Court next to Harrah's back then

  • @Rhirhifbabyy
    @Rhirhifbabyy Před 4 lety +868

    Whoever filmed this is ahead of their time so dope

    • @muddyhotdog4103
      @muddyhotdog4103 Před 4 lety +12

      How so?

    • @muddyhotdog4103
      @muddyhotdog4103 Před 4 lety +13

      @Mo Chubby's Music ya I get it, I'm just saying a lot of people in the past and present have video recorded stuff for memories it's nothing new. It's used to make a video "record".

    • @isaacperez9158
      @isaacperez9158 Před 4 lety +24

      muddy hotdog your fun at parties I bet

    • @TheRichest88
      @TheRichest88 Před 4 lety +6

      Isaac Perez right ? Lmao miserable people

    • @muddyhotdog4103
      @muddyhotdog4103 Před 4 lety +14

      @@isaacperez9158 well sooorry, I didn't expect Ya'll to get all butthurt at my question.. I seriously wondered what she was talking about as video recording was nothing groundbreaking back then.. sheeez

  • @mathewgarcia8808
    @mathewgarcia8808 Před 4 lety +333

    That mconalds by circus circus is still there to this day😌

    • @couz96797
      @couz96797 Před 4 lety +4

      Mathew Garcia they still serve pizza?

    • @Rhirhifbabyy
      @Rhirhifbabyy Před 4 lety +4

      Mathew Garcia yes

    • @benniewilliams3601
      @benniewilliams3601 Před 4 lety +12

      I went to that MacDonald every morning to get coffee on my vacation in the eighties, you are so right

    • @patriciapearl2529
      @patriciapearl2529 Před 4 lety +14

      And there's one inside circus circus too. I like that the breakfast includes a biscuit instead of an English muffin

    • @broncoscountry7667
      @broncoscountry7667 Před 4 lety +1

      Yes it is

  • @zacharyandrews1085
    @zacharyandrews1085 Před 4 lety +188

    Before the dark times..
    Before resort fees...

    • @melissabulicek8671
      @melissabulicek8671 Před 4 lety +15

      And parking fees!

    • @obviousproductions7468
      @obviousproductions7468 Před 3 lety +22

      How did Vegas die?
      A young buffet at a place called the Mirage. We used to eat there for $6 oh before you were born. Now buffets are$54.99. Twisted and evil.

    • @chrispafrieddreams9118
      @chrispafrieddreams9118 Před 3 lety +1

      @@obviousproductions7468👍👍 When they tried to go all fancy I/e Bellagio.. Went from cheap buffets, to fine dining. I. P. had a good reasonable buffet. Late night dining at the Sahara..

    • @pt8077
      @pt8077 Před 3 lety +1

      I grew up in Vegas and left for work internationally. I hadn’t visited the place in 5 years and man was I shocked when I came back in 2019. It’s changed so much that I quite frankly may never come back again. Sad as I loved Vegas.

    • @thisismagacountry1318
      @thisismagacountry1318 Před 2 lety

      Book at the Palms Condominiums on Airbnb.
      No resort fees and a good view of the Strip.
      Plus good dining at the Gold Coast or Rio.
      Even the Palms Casino has good restaurants.

  • @duncancannon1998
    @duncancannon1998 Před 3 lety +47

    I miss the 90s so much the last great era of anything, music, art, movies fucking everything

    • @genebrimage9150
      @genebrimage9150 Před 3 lety +7

      Agreed!

    • @3pointmvpshooter3000
      @3pointmvpshooter3000 Před 2 lety +5

      As a matter of fact, the 90s was also Pre 9/11 on top of that.

    • @royalcrowntowing2464
      @royalcrowntowing2464 Před 2 lety +3

      Totally agree the 90s was the best times and I was only 9 to 19 during the 90s but it was better than the 2000s and 2010s and 2020s

    • @Caneyhead123
      @Caneyhead123 Před rokem +2

      @@3pointmvpshooter3000 arriving at airport 30 min before flight and blasting through security. Family and friends could meet you at gate if they wanted.

    • @LightTheBeammm
      @LightTheBeammm Před rokem

      There’s still so much great music and great movies nowadays old man

  • @jnjaganon8226
    @jnjaganon8226 Před 4 lety +193

    7:56 free parking! Definitely not today’s Vegas lol

    • @QthAgR8
      @QthAgR8 Před 4 lety +3

      John and Jenn Aganon just park at planet Hollywood 😂😂😂

    • @winkirk
      @winkirk Před 4 lety +11

      lol treasure island actually does still have free parking!!

    • @hse6144
      @hse6144 Před 3 lety +3

      The Venetian has free parking also

    • @raymundochavira8853
      @raymundochavira8853 Před 3 lety +4

      Excalibur has free parking too

    • @ransmomebloke1949
      @ransmomebloke1949 Před 3 lety +3

      Now today's Vegas, lol. Thanks and no thanks to Covid.

  • @samsquanch1996
    @samsquanch1996 Před 5 lety +805

    Looks nothing like it does now, looked a lot more spacious back then.

    • @Ffollies
      @Ffollies Před 4 lety +35

      Really? I know a lot has changed but I wouldn't say it looks nothing like it does now. A lot of the hotels are still there. Guess depends on your perspective. A lot sure has changed but a lot is still there.

    • @mrkeno1000
      @mrkeno1000 Před 4 lety +48

      you should have seen it in the 60s and 70s it was really spacious. Locals hate what it has become

    • @vegassnowden
      @vegassnowden Před 4 lety +16

      @@mrkeno1000 Locals love what it's become. It's just getting better and better, especially now with the hockey team and the new stadium. Locals usually don't even go down to the Strip, but now there's more reasons.

    • @shawnperera4504
      @shawnperera4504 Před 4 lety +18

      i think it looked better back then than now

    • @goosechickinpox7538
      @goosechickinpox7538 Před 4 lety +49

      Vegas Snowman nah we hate it honestly. The hockey and football teams ain’t worth the hassle of driving through a congested freeway moving like pond water surrounded by idiots with California plates.

  • @peterd4827
    @peterd4827 Před 3 lety +104

    I couldn't stop staring at the stratosphere being under construction. It's amazing how spacious the strip used to be.

    • @milt6208
      @milt6208 Před rokem +3

      I remember the fire they had up there. It was the first fire at a Bob Stupak property that he really got upset about. Plus one of the three supports of the tower was quite a bit off and they built the front to cover it up.

    • @joemontano71
      @joemontano71 Před 5 měsíci

      Looks like this video was shot early in the morning, on a slow day like Tuesday or Wednesday.

  • @meliska702
    @meliska702 Před 4 lety +217

    Being born and raised in Vegas looking at this makes me want to cry I miss these simple times

    • @cesarperusquia7946
      @cesarperusquia7946 Před 4 lety +19

      I move in 94
      It was paradise for us.
      2020 is like fast life.. and it feels so crowded. Living cost is high for us that live her for that long..

    • @jerrysullivan8424
      @jerrysullivan8424 Před 3 lety +14

      You should have seen it in the 60s or early 70s. :)

    • @evetsnitram8866
      @evetsnitram8866 Před 3 lety +3

      @@jerrysullivan8424 Just watch a few episodes of Vega$.

    • @jerrysanders9101
      @jerrysanders9101 Před 3 lety +15

      Ya.. I hear you.. I am San Diegan and used to road trip to Vegas a lot in the 90s in high school ans later and wow.. what a great place it once was.. although everything was better then.. one thing I think helped destroy everything good/society is the invention of the smartphone.

    • @jmsmikey
      @jmsmikey Před 3 lety +11

      @@jerrysullivan8424 I was just thinking that~ I think I was born too late. I moved here in 93 to open Luxor & back THEN I kept hearing that with TI, LUX & MGM opening so quickly that the 'new' Vegas sucked & they missed the 'Old' Vegas~ I had no idea how much more 'New' it would get since then. I'm just glad I got to experience at least the last wave of the old stuff with those older hotels still open. Now just going to the strip for a drink will cost 20 bucks for the drink & 12 for parking.

  • @sweetlildevil7597
    @sweetlildevil7597 Před 4 lety +272

    Casinos come and go, but getting rid of the Stardust was a mistake.

    • @StuUngar
      @StuUngar Před 4 lety +42

      The Flamingo and Stardust hold a special place in Vegas history.
      The iconic hotels are Flamingo, Stardust, Golden Nugget, Caesars’, and more recently MGM Grand, Bellagio, and The Mirage.
      Vegas just isn’t Vegas without those places.

    • @Nathan-fw3fp
      @Nathan-fw3fp Před 4 lety +9

      @@StuUngar and mandalabay

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 4 lety +8

      I know I remember we stayed there on the Sunday October 1994 for $25 a night

    • @walterruiz-almendarez3688
      @walterruiz-almendarez3688 Před 4 lety +16

      Stardust became more and more broke. Stardust is Las Vegas history but a Chinese themed Casino is getting finished where Stardust was. The sign for Stardust is at the Neon Museum. Suggested visit.

    • @ladawn6426
      @ladawn6426 Před 4 lety +8

      Sweet Lil Devil .... I remember the water shot from one planter to another in the front of the casino and we thought it as so cool 😂

  • @CB3474
    @CB3474 Před 6 lety +680

    The good old days when the strip was never crowded.

    • @davidkruse4030
      @davidkruse4030 Před 5 lety +60

      it used to get crowded but yeah nothing like today. Hell you cant even drive on vegas blvd

    • @ddubentertainment7594
      @ddubentertainment7594 Před 5 lety +11

      With the exception of fight night anytime a boxing match was in town the strip was packed so this was most likely not a fight night fight night is and has always been Vegas most crowded nights besides that it's always pretty light

    • @clarktferrill
      @clarktferrill Před 5 lety +14

      Nobody goes there anymore....it's Too crowded

    • @markbassett456
      @markbassett456 Před 4 lety +108

      @@clarktferrill Nobody goes there anymore.... its to crowded. Did you even read that to yourself before posting?

    • @fusionn4316
      @fusionn4316 Před 4 lety +25

      This video was taken early in the morning according to the video creator so that's why it wasn't crowded. Also, it's always been crowded especially Fremont Street.

  • @RealJamesMcBreen
    @RealJamesMcBreen Před 4 lety +122

    Damn treasure island looked way cooler back then! I would definetly stay at that hotel. Treasure island today is sad AF.

    • @patriciapearl2529
      @patriciapearl2529 Před 4 lety +30

      I remember their pirate show .long gone :(

    • @michaeldavis5775
      @michaeldavis5775 Před 4 lety +10

      03:28 The old Treasure Island Sign looked a lot better than the lame sign that replaced it. The Sands used to have an excellent seafood buffet on Sunday Nights.

    • @raenoirwell6655
      @raenoirwell6655 Před 4 lety +10

      Patricia Vidal honestly I always get really upset when I’m driving past Treasure Island. When I was little my family would take me to the pirate show, and as a kid obsessed with pirates and mermaids, it was the coolest thing ever! Now they’ve got that shitty Senor Frogs club there. The least they could have done was theme the club to match the Pirate aspects. Wasn’t it a Siren club previously?

    • @ajsway7134
      @ajsway7134 Před 4 lety +10

      Treasure Island use to be cool with the pirate show...now it's just a piece of sh!t lol...miss the 90s Vegas

    • @melovetorun
      @melovetorun Před 3 lety

      I think they replaced the Pirate sign to avoid legal issues with Disney.

  • @nastyhardcore7641
    @nastyhardcore7641 Před 4 lety +53

    Damn flamingo looked awesome. Something was lost when the signs and marquees went from neons and bulbs to LEDs

    • @mmtot
      @mmtot Před 3 lety +3

      LEDs are horrible on your eyes.

    • @mustang7603
      @mustang7603 Před 2 lety +3

      Corporate Soullessness was gained

  • @surplussean3364
    @surplussean3364 Před 4 lety +52

    What an amazing time. Free parking, no traffic, cheap shows. I miss those days. I don't even go to the strip anymore

    • @jimkeskey
      @jimkeskey Před rokem +3

      $2.99 prime rib dinners.

  • @cunit1210
    @cunit1210 Před 4 lety +25

    94 was the first time I went to. Vegas. Just turned 21. For the past 10 years a visit at least 1 a year. It sure has changed a lot. Thank you sharing

    • @CIF-pm7tk
      @CIF-pm7tk Před 3 lety +1

      except the sheets at circus circus

  • @timothyhennon1510
    @timothyhennon1510 Před 4 lety +152

    4:05 The Stratosphere under construction

    • @FranciscoRodriguez-fr3uc
      @FranciscoRodriguez-fr3uc Před 4 lety +22

      Its called the "STRAT" now 🤢

    • @StuUngar
      @StuUngar Před 4 lety +6

      NY NY under construction too. I had to stay there for a conference and it’s a shit hole. I would’ve guessed its ben there since the 70’s

    • @marketweis
      @marketweis Před 4 lety +1

      Having been on the rides up there, it's eerily weird seeing that.

    • @dynhamik
      @dynhamik Před 4 lety

      @@marketweis Same. That was my first job when I moved out here in 06. I was a ride attendant. They were just starting to take the High Roller ride down. Good times.

    • @fusionn4316
      @fusionn4316 Před 4 lety +6

      @Daniel Varela Yeah. It's dumb how they just removed a couple letters and capitalized them as "The STRAT". Stratosphere was a way better name. They could've left it like that and just updated the sign with new neon lights instead of changing the name too...

  • @johnnyloveee
    @johnnyloveee Před 4 lety +77

    What a peaceful time to be alive.. no phones in the car. Living life.

    • @MrSkarbek36
      @MrSkarbek36 Před 4 lety

      John Paul Barrientos :(

    • @dextermedding2783
      @dextermedding2783 Před 4 lety +4

      The guy is literally recording with a camcorder it’s the same thing as a phone camera shut yo old ass up

    • @mistermessenger5180
      @mistermessenger5180 Před 4 lety +2

      Reality check, cellphones existed back then too they just weren't smartphones. People were still talking on their phones back then too, the only difference was that they weren't so common and there weren't any laws about using them while driving.
      Amd I'm pretty sure people still found other eays to distract themselves from interacting with one another back then too.

    • @itzpro5951
      @itzpro5951 Před 4 lety

      There is literally a camera in the car. Stop making a big deal over phones in cars, such boomer comments

    • @trevorjwilkinson
      @trevorjwilkinson  Před 3 lety +9

      Sure did have a phone in the car, my trusty indestructible NOKIA and my VHS recorder.

  • @Eric-qx1kx
    @Eric-qx1kx Před rokem +3

    Lived in LV for several years, left in 1994, never came back, so this is exactly how I still remember it in my mind. I imagine I'd be shocked going back today.

  • @robertglancy4474
    @robertglancy4474 Před 4 lety +20

    Lived in Las Vegas from 1986-2013 place definitely went under some changes even from 94. Lot of places seen here don't even exist anymore. I loved it...but, it was definitely better back in the day...still miss it sometimes though.

    • @charlesbukowski9836
      @charlesbukowski9836 Před 2 lety +1

      where did you go and why

    • @robertglancy4474
      @robertglancy4474 Před 2 lety +1

      @@charlesbukowski9836 I retired from the Carpenters Union out of Las Vegas and moved to Tucson Az. So even though a lot these casino's don't exist anymore I did alright working on their replacements. See the big lions head at the beginning at the MGM, worked with the contractor that took that down, but LV is pretty expensive to live now, definitely not the deal it once was. Wished I know the Allman Brothers Band was playing at the time though....lol

    • @charlesbukowski9836
      @charlesbukowski9836 Před 2 lety +1

      @@robertglancy4474 I lived there in 05-06 .... West side Spring Mountain....city was alright... nothing special.. I think I only really went to the strip like 10 times total because it was turning into a circus... plus the 'deals' were becoming expensive.. although I am looking at OK right now to get out of CA (due to Commie politics) .. I was going to go to AZ but we have an office in PHX and was shocked how much cost of living has caught up to CA the last 5-10 years..

    • @robertglancy4474
      @robertglancy4474 Před 2 lety

      @@charlesbukowski9836 yeah, I only went to the strip if I was doing work there. 05-06 was definitely a circus there with people buying and flipping houses and driving up the prices for everything. PHX isn't any different now, lots of people driving up the prices and now it's all coming to Tucson. It's not the cheap deal it was just in the few years I have lived here. Thinking of checking out Kingman small city and only about 100 miles from Vegas if I want to take a motorcycle ride up there for the day and head back. Plus you have Bullhead City and Laughlin or Prescott which is kind of a cool place.

  • @702Plebe
    @702Plebe Před 4 lety +203

    Thank you for this video. I was just at the strip last week and there’s definitely a remarkable contrast! Today’s Las Vegas has a real cyberpunk city feel to it whilst this version still looks like a quiet resort town

    • @megzzzz1077
      @megzzzz1077 Před 4 lety +13

      Nobody
      I was there last week as well. 🙂 it was my first time. I had a blast but looking at this, I would’ve loved to be in Vegas at this time

    • @trevorjwilkinson
      @trevorjwilkinson  Před 4 lety +22

      Thanks, it really was a different place back then.

    • @robertrossi9364
      @robertrossi9364 Před 4 lety +7

      i got here at the wrong time!!!! i could have certainly loved this vegas in the video

    • @nvalle23
      @nvalle23 Před 4 lety +8

      And to think, even at that time it was poppin! Our expectation for visual stimulation has gone through the roof. There were still wild times to be had even back then. It just wasn't all in your face like it is today...

    • @Veaseify
      @Veaseify Před 4 lety +9

      Every square inch of space on the strip now has some kind of retail outlet or Hotel on it but not everything is worse - The Linq promenade is a hell of a lot better than the Imperial Palace that used to stand there and there are a lot more walkways across the street than back then...even if the escalators don't work most of the time. Downtown has a lot more going on than in 1994 as well, and there are more 'regular' stores, in 1994 you were a prisoner of the Hotel gift shops for the most part.

  • @electraglide9357
    @electraglide9357 Před 4 lety +28

    Great footage! I miss those days. Moved there in 1990 and now Las Vegas looks NOTHING like that. Nothing but TV screens everywhere, resort fees and overcrowded sidewalks now. Old Las Vegas was the BOMB! I used to go to Westward Ho after a night of fun and I would get the 49 cent biscuits and gravy!...lol

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 Před 4 lety +3

      I remember the late night steak and egg specials for 99 cents.

    • @jawkojawko7094
      @jawkojawko7094 Před 4 lety +3

      This man is def from the 90’s. “The bomb”!!!

    • @mikechekkah8381
      @mikechekkah8381 Před 4 lety +2

      Dont forget about the footlong hotdog at slots of fun

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 Před 4 lety

      @@mikechekkah8381 Never had one... Were they good? 🌭😊

    • @ladawn6426
      @ladawn6426 Před 4 lety

      Electra Glide ... we’d go to slots of fun next door to westward ho and get chicken fingers for 2$ and it was A LOT of fingers and fries for that price 😂

  • @walterlv01
    @walterlv01 Před 3 lety +7

    The thing that stands out to me in this video is seeing the sky. Driving North up the Strip and looking up and seeing the sky instead of massive, hulking buildings everywhere like you see today.

  • @PERgggg
    @PERgggg Před 3 lety +43

    When you could actually see the casinos instead off CVS and stupid overpriced shops

  • @donaubry8774
    @donaubry8774 Před 4 lety +75

    Treasure Island in 1990"s was Best than 2000's and up. Now is SAD :-(

    • @JamesDavidWalley
      @JamesDavidWalley Před 4 lety +3

      It was really good when it was part of the Mirage "complex." After they sold it off, not so much.

    • @muddyhotdog4103
      @muddyhotdog4103 Před 4 lety +3

      I can tell you like pirate themes ect

    • @walterruiz-almendarez3688
      @walterruiz-almendarez3688 Před 4 lety +2

      I still remembered the pirate shows they did on Treasure Island.

    • @MrRobmore
      @MrRobmore Před 4 lety +1

      Like really a fucking CVS and Starbucks and that Senor Frogs or whatever the hell they have there now just sad like everyone else here says.

    • @JaredandTasha
      @JaredandTasha Před 4 lety +1

      President Vincent Wilson II lol give Excalibur some slack...its meant for younger families

  • @donvergas4855
    @donvergas4855 Před 4 lety +43

    Proud to say my father was among many of the construction workers who helped build along the strip during the 90s. Love my hometown.

  • @chief1b
    @chief1b Před 4 lety +3

    Wow All I could say. Memories too. Thanks for sharing

  • @felixlenox3345
    @felixlenox3345 Před 6 lety +158

    That's the Strip I remember and loved.
    Thanks for sharing it.

    • @realitycheck1092
      @realitycheck1092 Před 5 lety +3

      Felix Lenox you don’t like the new strip ?

    • @bentraemer
      @bentraemer Před 5 lety +3

      I agree, it (I've heard) has a different feeling now than then. I haven't been there since '92 , when Mirage and Excalibur were the new places

    • @TicklerDude
      @TicklerDude Před 5 lety +4

      Circus Circus still has the cheapest hookers in Vegas....best $15 that I ever spent!!!

    • @PappaGiorgio87
      @PappaGiorgio87 Před 4 lety +2

      Reality Check the new strip is nice but too bad the riviera and stardust had to go... it’s a big empty space now.

    • @TackyFlamingo
      @TackyFlamingo Před 4 lety

      PappaGiorgio87 if the riviera and stardust still existed it would still have some classic charm with the new modern theme

  • @cece5088
    @cece5088 Před 5 lety +24

    I miss the 90s...

  • @seanp.2108
    @seanp.2108 Před 4 lety +3

    I don't know what I like better: the handheld camera work or the minimal audio. This was great.

    • @13xfilms
      @13xfilms Před 4 lety +2

      Sean P. Best part was when dude laughed after seeing arrest hahah. Great video

  • @jeffhenry7749
    @jeffhenry7749 Před rokem +3

    I sure miss some of those old places like the Stardust, Westward Ho, Riviera, Silver City, Frontier.. Only Slots of fun and Circus Circus are left . Ty for posting

  • @bentraemer
    @bentraemer Před 5 lety +51

    wow, talk about a ride through memory lane. most of those places are gone. Thank you for sharing

  • @andrew562lb
    @andrew562lb Před 11 měsíci +4

    Vegas was definitely more authentic back then 😢 Miss those days ❤

  • @Leg1tK1ng
    @Leg1tK1ng Před 4 lety +97

    There’s nobody on the strip because this video was probably shot between 6-7 am... nobody is out on the strip at that time lol

    • @freddyp319
      @freddyp319 Před 4 lety +13

      Then and now. It's a ghost town at 7am. Everyone is in their room.

    • @trevorjwilkinson
      @trevorjwilkinson  Před 4 lety +32

      You’re right, I recorded this between 6 and 7am on a Saturday morning.

    • @Leg1tK1ng
      @Leg1tK1ng Před 4 lety +8

      Trevor Wilkinson nothing against you, just people in the comments thinking that it wasn’t crowded in the 90s. 6-8 am is really the only time the city takes a nap, lol.

    • @JaredandTasha
      @JaredandTasha Před 4 lety +1

      Not nowadays!

    • @alicialaucirica6079
      @alicialaucirica6079 Před 4 lety +1

      Aye I was just there and the streets are 24/7. Vegas never sleeps

  • @germanshepherd2579
    @germanshepherd2579 Před 4 lety +31

    I miss that Vegas.. went there 94-97 three straights years for Super Bowl weekend.. Cheap food, free drinks and just gambling.. Today NO thanks!

    • @BtRct
      @BtRct Před 3 lety

      Yup, especially since table minimums are normally $15-$25 on the strip for just about everything. Drinks come around super slow. Plus the outrageous resort fees. No comps for free meals or free night stays.

  • @all-stargamer3333
    @all-stargamer3333 Před 5 lety +19

    Omg the City looks so empty in the 90s... That's absolutely nothing compared to today. But it's really bad that so many beautiful Casinos are gone. I miss Riviera...😞

    • @Mhel2023
      @Mhel2023 Před 4 lety

      The uploader says this video was shot at 0600. Trust, the Strip was NOT empty or dead looking during the day and into the night!!!....good times then

    • @misguidedangel6550
      @misguidedangel6550 Před 2 lety +1

      Ya Vegas was completely dead in the 90s, must have been nice with no people there, getting dibs on the hottest hoes etc

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 2 lety

      I remember I went for the 1st time July 4th 1990. It wasn't even crowded.

  • @sofakingawesome4492
    @sofakingawesome4492 Před 5 lety +45

    I was there the same month and year. I was looking to maybe see myself. No, I was not the guy who was getting detained. LOL

  • @othervideos4002
    @othervideos4002 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Amazing video. This was a great time to visit, because a whole bunch of new resorts had recently opened. MGM Grand, Excalibur, Luxor, Treasure Island, and Mirage were recent additions in the past 5 years or less. I also love the way Harrahs used to look with the river boat exterior. Crazy to see the Sands where Venentian is currently located. And no Bellagio. My first visit to Vegas was in 1997, so it looked pretty similar to this. Thanks for bringing me back in time!

  • @77confusedzombie77
    @77confusedzombie77 Před 3 lety +2

    3:34 My mom and aunt used to take all of us kids to see the show at Treasure Island! A flood of memories came back!

  • @dontboogiewithme4238
    @dontboogiewithme4238 Před 6 lety +109

    i was living there at that time my parents and i moved to las vegas back in 1987 i lost both of them in 2012 i left in 2014 i miss las vegas so much

    • @JohnnyBoyCali
      @JohnnyBoyCali Před 6 lety +10

      Come on back. I live here and the economy is stronger than ever. Its easy to find a job here, and if you ever lose your job, just do lyft or uber in between jobs.

    • @theworldisimmense
      @theworldisimmense Před 4 lety +2

      JohnnyBoyCali really? How much are the rent? Like I don’t want to rent just a room but maybe a small apartment/studio with bathroom and small kitchen. I live in New York since I was a kid since 2004. I want to get out of here . Too cold and expensive. You need to be making more money and work lots of hours if you wanna live by yourself. I’m not lazy but I ain’t working that many hours for a shitty living here

    • @HipsterDoofus100
      @HipsterDoofus100 Před 4 lety +5

      Yes thank you Trump

    • @HipsterDoofus100
      @HipsterDoofus100 Před 4 lety +3

      thegaygaymerchannel I was talking about the economy booming

    • @goosechickinpox7538
      @goosechickinpox7538 Před 4 lety +4

      JohnnyBoyCali you are exactly what’s turning this city into shithole LA 2.0 people from California moving here to do Uber and Lyft. Smh just what we need more degenerates that can’t hold a steady job running rampant on our roads.

  • @randonification
    @randonification Před 6 lety +32

    I don't think there's another street on the planet that changes as much, from one year to the next, like the Vegas Strip. Never gets boring.

  • @USMC19777
    @USMC19777 Před 5 lety +50

    wow, how things have changed in 25 yrs

  • @jordanking6939
    @jordanking6939 Před 4 lety +22

    Las Vegas got crazier on the setup of the strip. With the resort fees and the lack of free parking, you don't even want to come to the strip

  • @williamthethespian
    @williamthethespian Před 5 lety +44

    Looking back here, it looks so open, unlike the mega resort next to mega resort it became. Amazing. Thank you.

  • @mrnobody5103
    @mrnobody5103 Před 4 lety +34

    This really brings a tear to my eye, so much has changed for the worst.

    • @brandonsavitski
      @brandonsavitski Před 4 lety +5

      Man up buttercup and get with the times. Stop living in nostalgia

    • @spookycrane9318
      @spookycrane9318 Před 4 lety +7

      @@brandonsavitski shut up degenerate

    • @JaredandTasha
      @JaredandTasha Před 4 lety

      Yea now its more reflective of Ninevah

    • @evetsnitram8866
      @evetsnitram8866 Před 3 lety

      I remember visiting in the late 80s when the Mirage was still under construction. At night it was an assault to the eyes. It took a couple trips to get used to it.

    • @Malfunctsean
      @Malfunctsean Před 3 lety

      @@spookycrane9318 Brandon’s just jealous his sense of nostalgia will surely suck when he get’s older. These kids today will never know what simplistic times are. Sad if ya think about it.

  • @alexisdefinitelynotmyname
    @alexisdefinitelynotmyname Před 4 lety +33

    Thank you to whoever put this up. As a born and bred Las Vegan, you brought me back to my childhood. The memories of driving on the strip as a kid with my folks are literally flooding in.

    • @texasstardust6010
      @texasstardust6010 Před 2 lety +1

      .....I graduated High School, in Las Vegas, in 1972. It was a much nicer place, and even in 1994, it was still " ok ", ... it's saddening to see it today, even though I no longer live there....
      Silvestri.... that name sounds very familiar.. 🤔. ;... a long time Las Vegas Family? My children are Las Vegas natives, and cannot believe how dramatically it has changed.... and not for " the better ".

  • @COOLDUDERBALD
    @COOLDUDERBALD Před 4 lety +11

    Makes me miss the old Vegas.

  • @aarbar6615
    @aarbar6615 Před 5 lety +21

    There will never be another, RIP 20th century strip

  • @bettywhite9634
    @bettywhite9634 Před 4 lety +226

    Literally like one guy walking the strip and he’s being hassled by police.

    • @NoCumBacksiFunny
      @NoCumBacksiFunny Před 4 lety +7

      Jimmy Greene shoot the cops and the person assaulting me. Cops are pigs

    • @m.rtheone4698
      @m.rtheone4698 Před 4 lety +6

      @Jimmy Greene LMFAO sissy cop lover.

    • @StuUngar
      @StuUngar Před 4 lety +1

      They ran up on that dude like he was Bin Laden

    • @axunhillokk
      @axunhillokk Před 4 lety +1

      FUCK THE COPS!!!

    • @axunhillokk
      @axunhillokk Před 4 lety +2

      Everyone of you bootlicking cop lovers say the same shit, I don't need to call police I have guns to defend myself.

  • @BtheSyStem
    @BtheSyStem Před rokem +3

    Thanks for the video. Truly a time traveler. Viva Las Vegas

  • @garyscaggs5989
    @garyscaggs5989 Před 5 lety +7

    started going here every Memorial Day weekend from 1993 to 2000
    always stayed at the Westward Ho between Stardust and Circus Circus
    thank you for preserving this era of Vegas
    good times and memories

    • @trevorjwilkinson
      @trevorjwilkinson  Před 5 lety

      Westward Ho, 5 cent coffee and foot long hotdogs, I miss the Ho.

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 Před 4 lety +3

      I was there in March of '93, betting the horses in one of the sportsbooks. James Carville walked up to my seat and asked if he could borrow my Racing Form for a minute. Why he chose to ask me out all the people there I'll never know. 😊

    • @Whateverintheworld
      @Whateverintheworld Před 3 lety

      I remember being a travel agent and people asking me to book a room in the rear of the Westward Ho.

  • @brandontarr6472
    @brandontarr6472 Před 4 lety +9

    Born and raised here I'm almost 30 now and that's the Treasure Island I remember my favorite just the whole look of it totally different. I like seeing history thanks.

  • @pinkladyy1871
    @pinkladyy1871 Před 3 lety +14

    I was 13 then, I remember running around the strip with my friends every summer. Wet n wild on the strip was the best. So many memories. Thanks for posting this.

    • @rockisrx
      @rockisrx Před 11 měsíci +1

      I always wanted to go! But I was like 5 haha

  • @markp.7165
    @markp.7165 Před rokem +3

    I was there in the early 80's and have always struggled to figure out where the old casinos were located but this helped a lot. Thanks!!

  • @anastas6179
    @anastas6179 Před 5 lety +32

    This is great! My first trip was in 1999 and so much had changed even by then. I loved when themes were everywhere and every square-frickin-inch didn't have to be retail space or overpriced restaurants. I miss Aladdin and the original Treasure Island. I know it's much more shopping and nightclub driven and there is less gambling than ever, but I do get really nostalgic about the earlier era.

    • @ashleighelizabeth5916
      @ashleighelizabeth5916 Před rokem +3

      Treasure Island was so DOPE in it's original conception. It's so sad to me that they pulled out the show.

  • @karlarriola2306
    @karlarriola2306 Před 4 lety +13

    That month and year was when i got married this april will be 26 yrs iv been married to my amazing beutiful wife and we will be there as we do every year on our anniversary

  • @marktimar4588
    @marktimar4588 Před 10 dny

    I worked at the STARDUST from 1987 to 1998. Thank you for sharing such Great memories!

  • @rossal4377
    @rossal4377 Před rokem +1

    My 1st trip to Vegas was in 1997 during my honeymoon and stayed at Stardust hotel!!wat a wonderful memory to see the hotel in this vid!!thank you..

  • @mirage4456
    @mirage4456 Před 4 lety +31

    Miss the Sands and Dunes, Stardust. I'm going to post a video of the grand opening of the original MGM. Everyone went to see the $50K chandeliers that hung
    over the main casino floor.

    • @prom8332
      @prom8332 Před 4 lety

      People have 50k chandeliers in their houses now..

    • @mirage4456
      @mirage4456 Před 4 lety +1

      This was in the 70s that the first one opened

  • @dannym6348
    @dannym6348 Před 4 lety +15

    I was looking at this video and I realize that it looks plain and I said to myself. Why does it look so dead. And then I looked at the video again and it said 1994. Wow I said to myself. And then you're passing by the Stardust Hotel and I said, WHAT. Me and my girlfriend STAYED THERE for a week and you brought back memories. Which were good memories. Thank you for that. I do love this video.

  • @rubicon-oh9km
    @rubicon-oh9km Před 5 měsíci +1

    First trip to Vegas was in '93 so this looks very familiar. What's insane is how much it's grown and changed in a mere 30 years.

  • @unoriginalname6354
    @unoriginalname6354 Před 4 lety +5

    Born and raised in Las Vegas for my entire life. Watching these videos gives me awesome nostalgia trips. Thanks for this.

  • @lolos4446
    @lolos4446 Před 6 lety +37

    Living and working in Vegas in the 90s, for me, was extremely good and fun. But the NIGHTS!!!! Oh man,! After we closed the bar @ 2:00am, we would go to the clubs, get industry comps, take"X", and dance and laugh till afternoon! Especially at the club UTOPIA!!!! WOOOOOOO!!! Shout-out to Dave! He was the man to know back then!!
    Damn I feel old...🤔

    • @MrDodger3222
      @MrDodger3222 Před 6 lety +1

      LOLOS and in the 90's, you could eat a good breakfast for $1.99! Food in Vegas ain't cheap anymore like it once was!

    • @lstruggy
      @lstruggy Před 5 lety +1

      Yes! For us it was always @Drais after 2am(the after party) 🤫🤩

    • @christopherwolfe36
      @christopherwolfe36 Před 5 lety

      LOLOS

    • @justinlmc1
      @justinlmc1 Před 4 lety +1

      Lived there at that time. The only real club back then was “The Club”. So much fun then.

    • @MrTeeye
      @MrTeeye Před 4 lety

      Wow, you must be cool.

  • @citizengar
    @citizengar Před 4 lety +15

    It's hard to contemplate those large empty areas and parking lots between the big hotels. Great job, whomever recorded this. I love seeing the Stratosphere tower being built.

  • @rayfinkle9369
    @rayfinkle9369 Před 3 lety +2

    I was the King of the games at Circus Circus as a kid. Especially the one where you roll the ball in the hole with a 3, 2 or 1 and the horse would move accordingly. I used to bring so many stuffed animals back home! haha
    Sadly, I never won the tall Pink Panther that you get from tossing the softball in the big milk jug. We went for a week every summer and not once in 7 or so years did I win that thing :(
    That was my dream. Oh well.

  • @Speedfreak515
    @Speedfreak515 Před 3 lety +5

    I remember going there at that time when I was a teenager. The shiny new Pyramid and the awesome castle. Those were my favorites. Luxor and Excalibur are now the cheap places. I've stayed at both in the past 10 years and they are really showing their age. Also, that original Treasure Island sign was the best.

    • @arrived255
      @arrived255 Před rokem

      Sucks how both of those beautiful hotels are under such bad maintenance and known as the crumby cheap hotels now

  • @MariaFerrerCurves
    @MariaFerrerCurves Před 4 lety +38

    Wow this is so cool that you have this footage! We moved to Vegas in 1996 when I was 10. This is totally how I remembered it. I went last year and it was a whole new place, I was lost! It looks so empty in the video, everything is so spaced out. Now it’s so congested! Great video!!

    • @pauls4522
      @pauls4522 Před rokem +1

      yup. I was just in vegas in july 2022 and everything is so cramped even when there arent many people walking. The major casinos really retrofitted a lot of crap attached to the casinos and it killed the openness and overall walking space. To me it just feels so unnecessary what they did.
      The biggest casinos are just oversized shopping malls...
      The most comfort I had in vegas was walking into the dumpy circus circus, the slots were looser, we enjoyed the arcade above the casino, and it was just an overall good time for me at least.

  • @evanlim8360
    @evanlim8360 Před 3 lety +4

    I haven't been to Vegas in at least 20 years so this is how it still looks in my mind

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 2 lety

      For me it was good up until 2010.

  • @bobabooey4537
    @bobabooey4537 Před 2 lety +2

    If we saw this quality and footage in the 90's, we would have thought it was from the 70's. Amazing changes over time.... and as I age.

  • @the_desert_dweller
    @the_desert_dweller Před rokem +1

    vividly remember the strip like this in 1994, many good memories..

  • @CaliBorn73
    @CaliBorn73 Před 4 lety +16

    Haha, this brought back so many memories. I turned 21 in '94 and me and a bunch of friends took a little blotter and had planned on going to the old Sharks Club. One buddy and I weren't feeling the vibe of the line or security guards and ended up walking up and down that strip, in and out of hotels for hours and hours. Good times...

    • @AstralHiGH
      @AstralHiGH Před 4 lety

      A foreign coworker of mine got harassed and threatened by a club security this week

    • @maybellinewilson7455
      @maybellinewilson7455 Před 4 lety +3

      CaliBorn73 I turned 21 in 94 too and went there to celebrate. So much fun. Very different now.

  • @gbhealthhero
    @gbhealthhero Před 4 lety +3

    Great video Trevor.....I went in '87, I was 17. I saw $1.99 steak and eggs on the menu and was floored! Waitress told me it comes with 2 eggs, steak, grits and toast. You want one? I said...I'll take 4!

  • @dexm8846
    @dexm8846 Před 3 lety +2

    Great video, a priceless time capsule!!!

  • @luisllama16
    @luisllama16 Před 4 lety +30

    las vegas has changed a lot, i like the new buildings too, but hate how there’s barely any space now

    • @walterlv01
      @walterlv01 Před 3 lety

      Yup it used to be that when family came to visit, we locals would drive them up and down the Strip and stop somewhere for lunch, walk around, etc. Can't really do that anymore - too crowded, too expensive and too much of a nightmare to get around.

  • @acjunior72
    @acjunior72 Před 5 lety +20

    Amazing upload! Insane how much the strip has changed, it looks almost unrecognizable today compared to this - the 90s

  • @Mhel2023
    @Mhel2023 Před 4 lety +6

    A few of us girls would drive to Vegas from San Diego on the weekends and stay at the Frontier... Great pool and the food was OK. We used to always take Sharon's 4Runner because it had a huge sunroof. We could hang out the roof while driving down the Strip at night. Also loved the Rave parties, clubs and 25¢ beers at O'Shea's. Great times, thanks for the video.

    • @ormand3000
      @ormand3000 Před 4 lety

      Did you and your girlfriends get laid?

    • @paulsvigil8508
      @paulsvigil8508 Před 4 lety

      I miss O’Shea’s. Pop in for a few quick shots or really inexpensive drinks and move on

  • @dad1442
    @dad1442 Před 4 lety +25

    I was there in 1982 Super Bowl week, I still remember eating at the Stardust and it was only $1.99 buffet really good food.then we would walk up an down the strip looking at everything. Great times, was 19 and in the Air Force having fun.

    • @thomaslabelle3093
      @thomaslabelle3093 Před 4 lety +2

      Now the buffet is averaging 40-50$ or sometimes more plus the good ol 40$ resort fee's every night and nearly 30$ for parking. Greed has no end obviously.

    • @StuUngar
      @StuUngar Před 4 lety +1

      Took my gf to a breakfast buffet at The Mirage and paid $100

    • @misguidedangel6550
      @misguidedangel6550 Před 2 lety

      @@StuUngar omg $100? Even in 2002 buffet was only $14.99

    • @StuUngar
      @StuUngar Před 2 lety

      @@misguidedangel6550 Last time I was in Vegas was pre-COVID. I was there on business and had lunch at The MGM that was mostly comped bc I had played a lot of poker. I think I paid around $10. But without the credit, the MGM lunch buffet on a weekday was around $40

  • @LoneWulff829
    @LoneWulff829 Před rokem +1

    This is one month before I graduated high school there in Henderson. It's the Vegas I remember growing up. Thanks for this, it's a heck of trip down memory lane.

  • @tyrellsoderberg8735
    @tyrellsoderberg8735 Před 6 lety +95

    Haha! The guy at 8:32 being arrested by police! Great video though.

    • @jonmacdonald5345
      @jonmacdonald5345 Před 4 lety +13

      Probably just got done smoking a joint so they had to take him to prison for 5 years!

    • @bs2361
      @bs2361 Před 4 lety +9

      Isn't it ironic tho Las Vegas use to have some of the harshest laws against weed now 2020 recreational was legalized in 2016 I believe...

    • @jonmacdonald5345
      @jonmacdonald5345 Před 4 lety +3

      @@bs2361 Hopefully Arizona is next!

    • @davidmorley1606
      @davidmorley1606 Před 4 lety

      B S can’t use it in public tho.

    • @jonmacdonald5345
      @jonmacdonald5345 Před 4 lety +2

      David Morley I still do I don't give a fuck! I think I heard 44 tickets were issued for public cannabis use in Vegas in 2018 big fucking deal lol

  • @autisticangell
    @autisticangell Před 4 lety +3

    I enjoyed this video so much. This is the Vegas I remember. We started going yearly in the early 90s and stopped going in the late 90s. Such fond memories of Westward Ho and Fremont St. I was a teenager so the thing that impressed me most was the cost of food. We got breakfast buffets for 2.99, shrimp cocktail for .99. I remember the grand opening of the Hard Rock. What else? Oh when they had the plane sticking out of The Sands, for Con Air. Wow, sooooo many treasured memories.

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 2 lety

      The same with me and my friends we started going 1990. Why did you stop going to Vegas.

  • @Spillers72
    @Spillers72 Před 4 měsíci

    I lived in Las Vegas from 1999-2001. I love Vegas, I would like to go back.

  • @joemichaels4231
    @joemichaels4231 Před 4 lety +1

    I was there in 1994, and many, many other years....I was 34. Wow does this video bring back memories!!! I wish we could drive the strip like that now!!!

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 2 lety

      I usually do that right before we check out. Since I'm the 1st one to get up at 6:00 in the morning and go put gas in the car I drive up-and-down the strip.

  • @Pat18934
    @Pat18934 Před 4 lety +19

    Was just at the Mirage last week and it really is impressive how well they keep up that place. You look at it in this video and at that time it was one of the newest properties on the strip and even to this day I’d say it’s still in the top 5

    • @StuUngar
      @StuUngar Před 4 lety +1

      Same with MGM. MGM is one of my favorite hotel casinos on the strip. Always clean and maintains a modern look.
      I had a conference at NY and that place was the shits

    • @Pat18934
      @Pat18934 Před 4 lety +1

      StuUngar I like MGM but I prefer to be more north on the strip. I like to casino hop and there’s just really not many I like around MGM. Mandalay is nice but even that’s a hike

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 2 lety

      I'll be there Father's Day weekend can't wait.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 Před rokem +2

      Enjoy while it lasts as it will be mostly torn down and replaced with a stupid guitar shaped tower.

    • @Nagranddan
      @Nagranddan Před rokem

      @@oldtwinsna8347 Yeah :\ Like sure, do a guitar shaped casino but don't replace Mirage! We made sure to watch the volcano show in case that gets removed.

  • @seand2711
    @seand2711 Před 4 lety +3

    Thank you for posting this. This video reminds me of EXACTLY what Vegas was like when I used to love going to Vegas. Today's Vegas has lost its charm.

  • @vegaslife7791
    @vegaslife7791 Před 3 lety +1

    A beautiful 👀 sight to See... Old Vegas.

  • @gkprivate433
    @gkprivate433 Před 2 lety +1

    Oh wow. My first visit to Vegas was in May 94. I only went back once and that was more to see a friend recovering from surgery than to play there. Glad I went in 94 because the old Horseshoe was still going, the million bucks was in the window. I stayed at the Stardust

  • @MusicHandsAbrupt
    @MusicHandsAbrupt Před rokem +3

    This was very interesting. Everything was so huge and grand! There were crosswalks and parking lots! The guy getting arrested was interesting lol. Loved it.

    • @matthewkrulitski8788
      @matthewkrulitski8788 Před rokem

      I think most of the change is that the pedestrian bridges block the sightlines down the Strip (and the center margin and the palm trees don't help in that regard). A lot of medium-sized buildings also got built close to the street, lending to a sense of closeness (or claustrophobia) and obscuring just how gargantuan the hotel tower blocks behind them actually are.

  • @mikefredrck1
    @mikefredrck1 Před 6 lety +121

    1:20 steak and lobster for $7.95! lol

    • @cutweldngrind
      @cutweldngrind Před 6 lety +3

      mikefredrck1 whats todays price average on that meal?

    • @realitycheck1092
      @realitycheck1092 Před 5 lety +14

      Jorge Serna around $35

    • @JailbreakFanGuy848
      @JailbreakFanGuy848 Před 5 lety +15

      Was just on fremont street and in fremont hotel you can get steak and lobster for 11.95$.... 1/13/2019

    • @Ffollies
      @Ffollies Před 4 lety +2

      I remember $.99 spaghetti.

    • @andrewdelafield1502
      @andrewdelafield1502 Před 4 lety +1

      @@JailbreakFanGuy848 Steak and eggs for breakfast $7 at Ellis Island. AWESOME BEER

  • @wmoy8507
    @wmoy8507 Před rokem

    Thanks. Brings back many memories of a less crowed Vegas.

  • @ettaplace6716
    @ettaplace6716 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for this! This is when Vegas was at its BEST in my opinion - if I wanted the present day “Times Square” I’d go to nyc 🥺😣 loved the 70 80 90 s Vegas and miss it a lot 😥

  • @rodgerdarby
    @rodgerdarby Před 3 lety +5

    SO frigging cool to see this. I was in my 20s during this time. I went to Vegas probably two or three times a year. … I remember so much of this time period. Walk the sidewalks on both sides of the road hundreds of times. So many good memories. I’m glad I got to see Vegas like this… I think of how much it’s changed. I remember picking up the picket signs and walking from one end of the hotel to the other. I went to all those little small businesses in between the casinos so many times… And now they are not there. Thank you for sharing this!

  • @brok4life2121
    @brok4life2121 Před 6 lety +9

    Fucking El Rancho! 5:32. That damn sign that said coming soon: Future home to Countryland USA....It was literally like that for years!!I was always waiting for it to be open and it never happened.

  • @equihuar2757
    @equihuar2757 Před rokem +1

    Awesome!! I first visited the city around that time, moved in 2005 how the strip has changed wow!!

  • @mykestrada
    @mykestrada Před 4 lety +2

    Just remembering the Algiers Casino brought back so many childhood memories. I love Vegas back in the day. Thank you for posting this memorable gem.

  • @ATA-wi2lh
    @ATA-wi2lh Před 4 lety +3

    Amazing. My family has been going to vegas every christmas since 1992 so this is so nostalgic to see

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 2 lety

      1990 was the 1st time for me. But 1992 is when I got hooked on Vegas. The last time I did not go to Las Vegas was 2009.

  • @dennislyons7158
    @dennislyons7158 Před 6 lety +18

    Boy that traffic light didn't stay green for very long! That shit makes me irate when I'm driving lol

    • @lstruggy
      @lstruggy Před 5 lety +2

      Dennis Lyons and people are still running red lights back then like they still do now 2018 😲

  • @stickbrick8219
    @stickbrick8219 Před rokem +1

    Stayed at the Hacienda first visit in 94 , this low roller still chasing a $2 steak dinner at Binions Horshoe from that visit. Never the same

  • @DennisRosen
    @DennisRosen Před 4 lety +17

    I remember the middle fifties when the Strip was tumbleweeds, gas stations, motels and about ten low rise resorts. The Riviera was under construction as the first high rise.
    The Very first resort on the strip the El Rancho was still in existence across from the Sahara.

    • @patriciapearl2529
      @patriciapearl2529 Před 4 lety

      Do you remember the motel headed towards the strip with the see through swimming pool?

    • @DennisRosen
      @DennisRosen Před 4 lety +1

      Patricia Vidal, yes. My Mom, Sister and I stayed there for a couple of nights as we were preparing to move back to Los Angeles as she was separating from my Dad who wouldn’t stop drinking and gambling away their money. This was in late 1956.

    • @patriciapearl2529
      @patriciapearl2529 Před 4 lety

      @@DennisRosen omg that's awesome. I keep searching for info on that hotel but nothing. We used to stay at The Ali Baba hotel nearby, my parents loved it there. They were also gamblers and drinkers(sadly). They had money to stay anywhere but preferred the Ali Baba for some reason. So many fond memories ..thank you for your reply

    • @DennisRosen
      @DennisRosen Před 4 lety +1

      Patricia Vidal, wow. We have that in common.
      Las Vegas could be a tough town on relationships.

    • @1990758
      @1990758 Před 4 lety +1

      That's interesting to know I love the history about Las Vegas how good is your memory . What was standing at the Luxor property before they built it same thing with the Excalibur what was there before they built the hotel

  • @denji94
    @denji94 Před 4 lety +6

    1:34 Fastest light change in history