We were greeted by a big fence with nasty barbed wire all over it....
Being like a cat, I hopped up on the fence, still denied access, but at least I had a better view.
Some of the signs I had to google to see what they once were. This sign was from the Royal Nevada, which disappeared in the 60'2. I bet this is one of the oldest ones here?
I found a pic of the old sign in it's glory days.
This is from the hotel Treasure Island. Apparently whoever the idea man over at the hotel was he probably got fired over this one.... months before Pirates of the Caribbean opened, Treasure Island stripped itself of the pirate theme, and changed their name to TI, giving themselves a new look, who knew Pirates would be one of the hottest marketing ploys today! I guess they figured that out, because it's back to being Treasure Island and guess what? The pirates are back. Not this unlucky guy tho.
This is one of the Lamp's from the Aladdin. The latest Lamp was taken down before the hotel switched from the Aladdin to Planet Hollywood. It sits near Freemont street, all lit up. But this one, wasn't so lucky. Here it is now and below is where it sat before.
Perched up high above the Aladdin
These diamonds were driving me nuts trying to figure out where I had sen them before. When I got home I looked in my scrapbook from 1987, and there was a picture of the Stardust! Mystery solved.
I found these 2 pics online, one of the hotel down, and the other of the sign being dismantled in pieces, that explains why there are diamonds all over the boneyard, the sign is huge!
In '87 I saw a show at the silver slipper, Boylesque was playing there. I found an interesting story online about this little malicious slipper.....
The Silver Slipper was a Las Vegas, Nevada casino that operated from September 1950 to November 29, 1988. . The casino was known for its rotating slipper that sat atop the casino.
On April 30, 1968, the Silver Slipper was purchased by billionaire Howard Hughes for $5.4 million in his famous spending spree of buying Vegas properties, which included the Frontier next door. Legend has it that he purchased the casino because the lights from the rotating slipper bothered him. This was a time when Mr. Hughes feared for his safety, and because the toe of the slipper always stopped and faced the window of his Desert Inn penthouse before rotating again, he feared a camera could be planted in the toe either by the government or someone else. After several attempts at requesting that the slipper be turned off, Hughes purchased the casino, had the slipper filled with concrete and dismantled the rotating mechanism.
The casino was purchased for $70 million on June 23, 1988 by Margaret Elardi, who by this time owned the Frontier. It was demolished several months later and turned into a parking lot. There were plans to build an addition to the Frontier on its former grounds; however, they had to eventually be scrapped due to a costly union strike taking place, which put a severe financial strain on the resort.
On April 30, 1968, the Silver Slipper was purchased by billionaire Howard Hughes for $5.4 million in his famous spending spree of buying Vegas properties, which included the Frontier next door. Legend has it that he purchased the casino because the lights from the rotating slipper bothered him. This was a time when Mr. Hughes feared for his safety, and because the toe of the slipper always stopped and faced the window of his Desert Inn penthouse before rotating again, he feared a camera could be planted in the toe either by the government or someone else. After several attempts at requesting that the slipper be turned off, Hughes purchased the casino, had the slipper filled with concrete and dismantled the rotating mechanism.
The casino was purchased for $70 million on June 23, 1988 by Margaret Elardi, who by this time owned the Frontier. It was demolished several months later and turned into a parking lot. There were plans to build an addition to the Frontier on its former grounds; however, they had to eventually be scrapped due to a costly union strike taking place, which put a severe financial strain on the resort.
Here are more pieces of the Stardust, and random letters. I'm working on finding out what they came from, as of yet, mystery continues.
I wasn't going to put this pic on the bog because I couldn't for the life of me, figure out what it said. We tried every "S" word there was. Then once again,my scrapbook to the rescue, I went to a Museum in '87, little museum called.... LIBERACE, and his signature on the booklet matches the black sign. So it wasn't an "S" after all, it's an "L"
Thru Google I could not find a picture of the Sahara with the letters going downwards. All the sites had the letters left to right, and then I found it... yep, in my scrapbook, this sign in '87.
Always a reason to go back to Vegas, here is one of them, to actually get inside the fence of this very kewl tourist must see attraction!!
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