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In the 1990s, businesses, hotels, and casinos started looking for alternate ways of getting visitors to open their wallets, so they tried a different approach and promoted Las Vegas as a family vacation destination. The Excalibur Hotel, MGM Grand Adventures Park, and Casinos opened on the Las Vegas Strip started the Sin City’s family-friendly era. The 1990s was the era of mega-hotels and theme parks. In 1993, a unique pink-domed 5-acre indoor amusem*nt park, Grand Slam Canyon, became part of the Circus Circus hotel. Las Vegas elected its first female mayor, Jan Laverty Jones. The Neon Museum was founded in 1996 that features signs from old casinos and other businesses displayed outdoors on 2.62 acres.
Several movies were also made that kept the freedom and pop culture of the city alive such as ‘Indecent Proposal (1993)’, ‘Leaving Las Vegas (1995)’ and ‘Showgirls (1995)’. Here below are some photos that will take you back to the 1990s Las Vegas.
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#1 Vegas World sign, 1991
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#2 Las Vegas strip at night, 1990
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#3 Fremont Street Las Vegas March 1994
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#4 Huntridge Theater, July 10, 1996
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#5 Holy Cow! Brewery, Las Vegas Blvd S & Sahara, June 27, 1996.
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#6 Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1993
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#7 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, 1993
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#8 El Rancho, Las Vegas, 1991.
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#9 Construction of Fremont Street Experience, August 1995
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#10 Construction of Bellagio, c. 1996.
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#11 Installation of the sign at Rio Las Vegas, 1990
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#12 Las Vegas Blvd, 1990
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#13 Downtown Las Vegas, 1990
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#14 Excalibur, before it’s grand opening. Las Vegas, 1990
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#15 Stratosphere under construction, Las Vegas, 1994.
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#16 Hacienda, December 31, 1996 – fireworks show right before the tower implosion.
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#17 Wee Kirk O’ The Heather, April 9, 1955
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#18 Rio, Las Vegas, 1990
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#19 Flamingo, Las Vegas, 1990
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#20 Under the marquee of 4 Queens, Fremont St, August 1966
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#21 Golden Goose & Glitter Gulch c. 1990
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#22 The Algiers Hotel, Las Vegas, 1990s
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#23 Vegas World, 1991.
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#24 Poolside at Shangri-La Bar, Imperial Palace, Las Vegas, 1991.
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#25 Fremont Street just after being closed to traffic, 1994
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#26 Normandie Motel, 708 S Las Vegas Blvd.
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#27 At work on the Flamingo, 1995.
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#28 Landmark Hotel. Las Vegas, 1995.
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#29 Vegas World closed. Stratosphere under construction. Las Vegas, 1995.
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#30 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 1996
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#31 Dunes & Oasis Casino, August 1990
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#32 Las Vegas, Fisher, and Star View motels in 1999.
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#33 Rio Las Vegas, 1990
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#34 Luxor Hotel & Casino under construction, c. November, 1992.
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#35 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, 1992
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#36 El Cortez, Las Vegas, 1992
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#37 Casino Royale, Las Vegas, 1994-1995
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#38 Sands Hotel. Las Vegas, 1995.
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#39 Harrah’s Las Vegas, 1995.
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#40 Construction of Fremont Street Experience, Summer 1995.
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#41 Starship Orion and Countryland, Las Vegas, 1997.
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#42 Las Vegas Strip, July 1992
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#43 Wreckage of the Las Vegas Hilton sign after a storm, July 21, 1994.
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#44 Fremont & Main – view from the top of Plaza Hotel.
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#45 Holiday Casino at night, Las Vegas, 1990
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#46 Las Vegas Transit, October 1991. South of Tropicana.
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#47 Bourbon Street and Maxim on Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, 1991
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#48 Golden Goose and Glitter Gulch, Las Vegas, 1991.
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#49 Binion’s Horseshoe, Las Vegas, November 1992
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#50 South 3rd St & Utah Ave, Las Vegas
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#51 Building the Luxor pyramid, April 1, 1993
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#52 Caesars Palace. Las Vegas, April 11, 1994.
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#53 Sands. Las Vegas, 1994.
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#54 Royal Hotel & Casino, Convention Center Dr, June 1995
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#55 Main Street, Las Vegas, June 1995.
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#56 Stratosphere during construction, September 1995.
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#57 Riviera on the Las Vegas Strip, July 1995.
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#58 Desert Rose Motel, Las Vegas Strip, 1995.
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#59 Cardinal Motel, 1996
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#60 Las Vegas Strip, October 1997
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#61 1-Hour Duo-Cleaning at Strip Centre, Las Vegas, 1991.
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#62 Mid-Towner Hotel, 211 N. 7th St., Las Vegas, 1990
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#63 Desert Inn, March 21, 1997
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#64 Driving up the Strip, December 1990
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#65 Lady Luck – 3rd & Ogden – 1992
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#66 Golden Gate Hotel & Casino, December 1992
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#67 Excalibur, Las Vegas, 1993.
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#68 Black Jack Motel, 2809 Fremont
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#69 Las Vegas, June 1990s
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#70 Denny’s and Joey’s New Yorker on the right, present location of Casino Royale.
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#71 Entering Oz. MGM Grand, Las Vegas, 1994-1995.
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#72 Construction of Mandalay Bay, 1977
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This is 1997. The Hacienda was torn down in 1996 and Mandalay Bay was built on the site. The white Geo Metro parked in the lot is from the early 1990’s.
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This cannot be Mandalay Bay, if the date is correct. According to its wiki site, it was built in late 1990’s.
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The MGM Lion had to be removed because the Asian tourists believed walking into a lion’s mouth would bring them bad luck
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I didn’t realize Mandalay Bay was so old.
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It’s not. That was 1997 not ’77
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When I was a kid, I loved staying at the Imperial Palace. It flooded then, and it floods now!
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These are stunning. Takes me back. thanks.
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I grew up here. Fremont Street experience was such a big disappointment for a child. My family used to drive to the strip and down Fremont street to see all the glittering mascots. Now it’s just a ceiling showing explosions while Imagine Dragons blasts out.
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