Las Vegas Downtown 3rd: The Grand, the Mob, the Hogs, & Pizza Rock!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2023
- Today Las Vegas Inside & Out is off on an adventure to Downtown Las Vegas, during a stormy Labor Day weekend - to explore the Downtown3rd Entertainment District. This spot is just a block north of the Fremont Street canopy, an imaginatively renovated and reimagined walking thoroughfare anchored by the Mob Museum at the north end and Fremont at the south end. In between: The Downtown Grand boutique hotel and casino; a really unique and alluring restaurant row, featuring a classy steakhouse literally next door to a biker bar, and the most award-winning pizza in Las Vegas, Pizza Rock. This is a fun one, folks - join us!
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PHOTO/VIDEO CREDITS:
The photo of Downtown Grand from the 4th Street vantage point is courtesy of Wikipedia:
Raul Jusinto, CC BY-SA 2.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
The photos and postcards of the Lady Luck were obtained from the following web pages:
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The photo of former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is courtesy of Wikipedia:
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
The photo of pizza chef Tony Gemignani is courtesy of Wikipedia:
Sarahinloes, CC BY-SA 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Black and white photos of the Prohibition Era were obtained from the Britannica Website.
The photos of the former US Post Office and Courthouse were obtained from the book "Las Vegas Then and Now", by Su Kim Chung, copyright 2002.
Photos of the interior of the Mob Museum were obtained from their website:
themobmuseum.org
The photo of the wall of mobsters in the Mob Museum is courtesy of Wikipedia:
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The photo of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is courtesy of Wikipedia:
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Various photos of food, restaurant interiors, and hotel rooms were obtained from the Downtown Grand website:
www.downtowngrand.com
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Opening segment:
The red and blue neon outline is by Thanakorn Jaroensup, courtesy of Pixabay.com:
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The photo of the rainbow and red rocks is by esudroff, courtesy of Pixabay.com:
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All other video clips are our own.
The music is "Love or Lust", from the TH-cam Audio Library.
Songs from the TH-cam Audio Library featured in this video:
- Run One Down - Dan Lebowitz
- Tiptoe_Out_the_Back
- Touching Moment
Songs and clips from the Epidemic Sound Audio Library:
ES_Endless Pt. 1 - Peter Sandberg
ES_The Street Performer - The Fly Guy FIve
ES_Jazz by Night - Martin Landstrom
ES_Harp Ascend 7 - SFX Producer
ES_Down the Memory Lane - Magnus Ludvigsson
ES_Water Slosh Bucket 4 - SFX Producer
ES_Lively Bar Walla 9 - SFX Producer
ES_The Last Kiss - Ritchie Everett
ES_Bill Me - Ritchie Everett
ES_Escalator Run Loop - SFX Producer
ES_Sweet Lies - Gold in June
ES_City Traffic 15 - SFX Producer
ES_Errors Expected - The Fly Guy Five
ES_Still Looking Good - Sight of Wonders
ES_Thunder Crack - SFX Producer
ES_Creepy Crawly - Arthur Benson
ES_La Festa in Cucina - Medite
ES_Kitchen Ambiance 2 - SFX Producer
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Cinematography: Dale McKenzie, Paula McKenzie
Editing, Voiceover, Post-Production: Dale McKenzie, Final Cut Pro X
Script, Research: Paula McKenzie
Cameras & Gear: iPhone 14 Pro in 4K video; GoPro Hero10 in 5K video; Lumix G9 in 4K video for outro; sound by Rode Wireless GO
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Downtown Grand is a hidden gem. They also have $1.00 Blackjack and every Thursday they have a blackjack tourney. We go often and have never had a bad experience. If your going back to Pizza Rock, they have a killer happy hour. $7 pizza's and $6 meatball apps are our favs. Dale and Paula, THANK YOU again for your work. We look forward to Sundays. Hogs and Heffers NY was inspiration for Coyote Ugly
Dale and Paula, kudos once again! Your presentations never disappoint, and never cease to amaze me! Really a pleasure to see them renovating old town, Las Vegas! Staying with the theme and character! You capture the ambience and feeling with your choice of background music and and the footage!
Such a lovely compliment, as always - thank you 🥰
Thanks, Paula, for eating the pizza correctly. Pizza is not a knife & fork food.
Love the Downtown Grand. Live music in Freedom Beat, bottomless mimosas and bloody mary's for $16. PBR beer and hotdog for $2 bucks. PBR beer with a shot of bourbon for $5. Low limit table games. Blackjack for $1 and Craps for $5. Pizza Rock has great happy hour deals as does Triple George's. And it's close to the Freemont Street Experience but far enough away so it's not so loud.
Hidden gem indeed.
Thank you so much for the awesome review and history of the Downtown Grand (Lady Luck). It takes a lot of work and research to do these great videos, and my goodness you guys nail it every time. Cheers!
That was a great video of some unknown places. To me anyways!😂😂Thanks for making us discover something different!👏👏💯💕🧑🦳😊
Excellent Excellent 👌 Excellent video 📸📸📸 Excellent 👌 Job!!!!!
I am so happy you dicovered Pizza Rock! That pizza is fantastic! We love the Grand! There have been changes since the pandamic ie: there use to be this beautiful flower arrangement in the lobby. I loved those arrangements! The Art bar is still cool as well as Freedom Beat, good food. That place changed for the better after the first year it opened. Rooms are great! Clean and comfortable! Someday you will need to do a staycation there. Thanks for all the videos you do! ❤
As a pizza loving man from Brooklyn. Seeing Dale eat pizza with fork made me recoil in horror! Great video as always!
I feel like he didn’t want to make a huge mess on camera, so that’s why he used the fork. 😂
Spread the wealth DALE!!!
Dave cracks me up. Sitting there counting all his money. Dale when you said to Paula how can she not want to marry him. That's what I would have heard my grandpa say.
You 2 are my favorite Las Vegas channel. The mob museum is so interesting. The Rat pack had so many more connections then I knew about.
Thank you both for all you do.
Hogs n Heifers is not for the faint of heart but it is really fun
As one of your OG (Original Gangster) subscribers, I'm glad you showed the Mob Museum.
I feel right at home there yall! Yeeee haa!
Good job MCKENZIEEESSSSS!
You sure are one of our OG's, and glad we are of it! 🥰
Pizza Rock is on the "to do" list. Looks great. Did the Mob Museum years ago and what a place! One of the best museums I've ever been in with fantastic exhibits. I'm from Chicago and grew up there in the '60's. Went to high school with some of the kids whose dads were "connected". As a matter of fact Penny's brother married a girl whose father was "connected". I'll have to tell you the story sometime. All I'll say now is that Penny's brother took his wife - notice I'm not using names - to see The Godfather and his wife started to cry halfway through the movie. Penny's brother asked what was wrong and she said: "that's my dad". Yikes!
What a great video. I loved the history about Lady Luck and some of the older clips that you inserted. Paula definitely got her walking steps in on this vlog. Pizza Rock is definitely on my list for December. They have so many different varieties of pizza I’ll have a hard time deciding which one to choose.
The outro was so funny with Dale counting all the money he’s won recently. 😂
We've stayed at Downtown Grand three or four times and have always loved our stays. The rooms are very clean. The Mob Museum is one of our favorite attractions. Outstanding video!
Great 👍🏽 Video Dale & Paula ❤
Thank you guys for all the hard work you put into these videos. Very high quality. Love them, love you💕
Dale, you are officially a video legend.
What a great video Paula and Dale! And, the pizza looks Yummy! Thank you so much, and enjoy your week you two! CAB😍
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Can’t go wrong with Pizza Rock 😍
awesome video, some interesting facts. thanks, great job
Thanks for another great video.
Loved this video! The Downtown Grand was the first hotel we visited after COVID-19. Pizza Rock was also the first restaurant we tried after everything opened back up. They have a great HH, plus amazing pie. The rooms are clean and nice and priced very well. Thanks for another great video!
I think you2 hit my nostalgic button. No I want to go back and have fun!🎉
Went to downtown Grand recently to visit my son and his family who were staying there. Got me a players card and joined him in gambling for several hours. Walked about and grabbed dinner at California Hotel. When leaving the parking garage I inquired about free or reduced parking for locals, which I was told none existed. Come to find out after putting out $20 for parking that with a players card and the gambling I could have parked for free!! Thanks for the heads up Downtown Grand!!😂
Good show thank you.
So glad to see you on your Sunday adventures! Continued good health to you both❤❤
I would have loved to have seen the Mob Museum!
And that pizza looked amazing 🤩
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👋🏽 Dale & Paula 😊Yikes!!! That Rain ☔️ Was Wild…
Great job!! Funny coincidence, me and my husband will be celebrating our fifteenth wedding anniversary in Vegas, with a vow renewal. We were married at a courthouse. But this time, the ceremony will be at the little church of the west, and our reception will be at the Mob Museum. Again another great video!! ❤
Wow, congratulations 🎊 and we know that’s going to be two great celebrations! We were married at Little Church of the West. 🧡
Takes me back, I lived at Stewart and Nellis back in 2006
Just loved the video!!! I’m working but had to take 20 to watch!!! Thank you for everything you do! You have made me love Las Vegas and I can’t wait to go back ❤
We were in town, from Canada on Labour Day weekend and that rain was WILD!!!! Unexplainable unless you’re there, honestly!
This video was fantastic! I love that you take us to places we wouldn’t normally go and now we’ve added to our list, to visit!
Great video! Have heard that Pizza Rock is wonderful! You guys are awesome! See you at GF23! 😀😀
Great video. Downtown Grand has a great daily Prime Rib special at the Freedom Beat plus you cant beat the 2 DOLLAR hot dog and beer served daily from 11 am from their retro hot dog cart.
I also love the Detroit style pizza at Pizza Rock.
I have been to Pizza rock but it was so busy that I had to get a slice to go. It was 11 pm. Busy and well worth it. Great for downtown plus I have gambled at the Grand and love the smaller space and need to stay there when i am next in town,
Looks like you had a lot of fun. That was very entertaining. The Grand looks like an interesting place to stay. I don't get to Vegas much, so I can't see myself staying downtown. But it looks like a visit will be order. Great job!
Thanks for the tour…looks like a great area to spend a day!🇨🇦❤️
Love the Grand and Pizza Rock! Great video! Thanks!!
Have stayed at Downtown Grand several times (Great Hotel!) & been to Pizza Rock many times! Outstanding video!!
Thanks for your terrific vlog. We love eating at Pizza Rock and love to gamble at the Grand. We might stay there sometime. Currently we stay at the Golden Nugget. Downtown all the way!
Nice video and the mob museum is soo interesting (bring from Chicago!). Loved the pizza rock part.. looks so yummy!!❤
Pizza Rock is the best my husband and I there and the server thought was taken to long brought three meatballs to hold over until we got our pizza fantastic service, and food
Great video as always, you have us very spoiled!. For a while I thought Lady Luck was going to end up as a pile of gravel, as there was no sign of any one caring. Mr. Goodman really stepped up and pressured for the remodel, and that they did, turned an old decrepit, smelly shady place into what now is the Down Town Grand ( It was going to be named just "The Grand", but there was another development planed in the north strip by some middle east developers with that name, so lady lucks name had to be "downtown Grand". Al the area is revitalized, it's a good area, great Pizza by the way ( and nice hat jajaja). all that area was a bit dicey to walk, but now it's a lot better. Thanks again Dale, Thanks again Paula (and thank you for showing Dale the proper way to eat pizza jajaja (Dale eat pizza the way you want, when you want)
Between wanting to try Pizza Rock, Evil Pie and Secret pizza, I am probably going to be fluent in Italian by the end of my next trip!
I love the more laidback vibe of downtown. Sorry Dale isn’t a fan. I always tell people to do the strip on weekdays and downtown on weekends. Both are fun in different ways.
Great video as always!
Must have hit the jackpot :) take care guys, Mike
So fun!!! Great video, really interesting…❤️❤️❤️
Great video Dale and Paula, I would love to visit the Downtown Grand one day
This hotel is a gem very informative thank you as always ❤
Well I think our next stay needs to be down town I need that pizza!! 😅 🍕
Next time you go to Pizza Rock get an order of the Gorgonzola cheese fries. They are addictive! I agree about the pizza. It’s some of the best I’ve ever had.
I love y’all’s show
Best thing going on Sundays
I won’t go downtown anymore, I would recommend it to everyone under 35
Congrats on those Keno hits
Hope to see y’all March 10-14
P.S.
Mob museum was better at Tropicana than where it currently is
Lol Dale counting his Keno winnings!
This was amazeballs!! Thank you so much ✌️
Very interesting. Enjoyed it.
that was a great video
Looked up the hotel website, and wow it looks nice. Another place we need to check out!
By the way. Dale.....that's quite a stash!
Love the music you use in your videos!
That is probably the best compliment you could give Dale, thanks!
I’m not sure a mob museum is the best use of that beautiful building. I know people love it. I could be wrong.
I agree
After the city of LV purchased the building, they had an extensive and costly study done and the result was a fabulous cultural center that would include local history, mob stuff, art, education, and a small amphitheater for music. The renderings were beautiful. And after all that, it was turned into the mob museum. Very disappointing.
Then step forward with your plans and money. You just want to complain. Have you even been there? Go see it.
@@tompmcneil I gave the most congenial opinion in the history of TH-cam. You seem fun , though.
When the government finally able to take the mobsters to court, this building was one of the locations that they did that. During the tour you sit in the actual court house.
So I think it's absolutely appropriate.
Thank you for a very nice presentation and for eating the great pizza without sharing with me. 🥰
This is a great part of downtown just away from the canopy. Love seeing it from your perspective!
Great video we need to stop at pizza rock
This was a great nostalgic, kind of video, thank you all so very much, Dale and Paula. You all always bring the educational point of view in the video. A Friend and I went to visit that Mob Museum a few years ago. And I actually enjoyed Pizza Rock.
Great video, guys! This looks like a real hidden gem. I would have never known it even existed. Thanks for sharing!
Fun video🤠👍🍀. I luv seeing Fremont & I can’t wait until Granny Fest! The Grand is soo nice. Can’t wait to try the bargain hotdogs🌭. They are pet friendly too🐶🐈⬛. Pizza Rock is wonderful & I could drink the cheese. The Mob made Vegas & the museum is perfect downtown🎰🎲. Thank you for the wonderful and informative video🥳
Love your videos and for me Pizza Rock is the best pizza in Las Vegas!❤️
Good morning guys. Great video. We love Downtown Grand. And the pool area is fantastic. Pizza Rock is amazing. Wonderful pizza. We love to stop in there too. Thanks for the video. See ya soon. 🎉🎉
Downtown Grand is certainly a nice option for staying downtown 👌 it’s comfortable and quiet! The Mob Museum is awesome…so much history👍! I have not yet tried Pizza Rock but it is on the Frontiersman to do list… hopefully in October 🍕🤞! Hogs and Heifers is a Unique experience for sure …😅! What a great job highlighting this little corner of downtown! Can’t wait to get back! Hope you two have a great week ❤️!!!
I stayed in the standard room clean,bed comfortable, bathroom clean and roomy. The staff atthe table could have been a bit more friendly. Overall a thumbs 👍 👌 c great value
Hmmm...no explanation about that stack of 100s. Was Dale lucky at Keno? 😁
Paula, my brother and I were in the area of the Mob Museum (before it opened) as we wanted to catch The Deuce to take us back to the Strip. It was around 11:00 pm on a weeknight and the streets were quiet, save for a few shady looking characters. Lady Luck was closed too, so needless to say, we were glad to get the heck away from there! 😮 What a change from 2006 to now!
Yes, he had a lucky streak last week! He will talk about it in tomorrow's vlog. As for your bus trip...yikes! You are more brave than I am, I would NOT have done that...
Did Circa take over the old Nevada Club? Haven't been there in a few years and everything is different now. Thanks for your videos. You two are such nice people! Wish there were more like you!
Actually Circa occupies the spot that was once the Las Vegas Club and Glitter Gulch - the northwest corner of Main and Fremont.
A great look at some things one might not think of when visiting. I will definitely check out The Mob Museum and Pizza Rock on a future visit. I think Dale with that cash is what is called "Rolling with fat stax."😂
The D loyalty points, will get you free Pizza Rock Slice. Make sure & get a players card at the D. I’m sad that Dale isn’t a Downtown fan 😆. Thank you to Tony, for saving downtown. 🥰🥰🥰
Downtown Grand offers a Staycation for locals with the resort fees waived. It's on their website under Deals.
I love this piece of info, thanks for sharing!
Counting all those Benjamin's was intentional or casual😅😅😅😂😂😂😂?
Greetings from a follower from Covid months!!!
DT Grand is the best hotel DTLV
Wow, thanks to you guys we once again discover some really cool places in downtown LV. Thanks for taking is along and showing those places. That pizza joint looked really nice and the pizza seemed to be very tasty. That might be a place that I will check out during my next trip. Thanks for your efforts in this production, you always seem to outdo yourselves every time. Bring on the next one!
Wieder ein wunderbares Video vielen Dank, es würde Mich freuen euch nächsten may auf einen drink zum treffen,liebe Grüße von Elisabeth und Max aus Straubing
Yes definitely a great place. its nice to get away from the crazys 🤣 and we won good money.
Was dale counting his keno winnings
Yep - he had a good run of luck last week, after winning pretty much nothing all year!
You two should go to the National Atomic Testing Museum. You get a discount if your show your receipt from the Mob Museum.
We have been to the Atomic Testing Museum, and it is wonderful - but that was before our vlogging days. We also had the great privilege of taking the day tour from there to the Nevada Test Site - now THAT is a fascinating thing to see! (Absolutely no filming though, you cannot even bring a phone)
Dale said he was keeping it classy eating pizza 🍕 with a folk😂 I’m with Paula get in there with you’re hands 😊
Late notice I know, but we are going to fly in on Monday. How do we accidentally bump into you guys while we are there? Are you planning to record a video someplace? We would love to meet you and buy you a meal ! Thanks!
Thank you so much for wanting to meet! Please email us at lvinsideandout@outlook.com - that’s the best way to make plans. 😊
I have a question for you Las Vegas pros.
I’ve always loved to visit Vegas. But recently my husband passed away.
I’m wondering if there are senior groups that travel or meet in Vegas.
I’m pretty independent but would be good to know other people that are at same hotel so we could check on each other.
I love this idea, Sandy - and I am sure there must be travel groups as you mention. I don't know of any personally though - I guess I'd suggest looking on the web, or maybe contacting a travel agency, just inquiring? Looks like you are in Arizona, and I bet there are bus trips maybe, from Phoenix?
U guys going to get in trouble with the music in the background in pizza rock Britney Spears copyright fix it