Las Vegas Strip street drive from 1988
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- Las Vegas Strip street drive from 1988. I taped this from the car window in real time (edited the long traffic lights) on January 11,1988. Starting from the Landmark casino on Convention Center drive,turning unto Paradise going north to Sahara avenue, then heading south on the Las Vegas Strip,u-turn at the Hacienda casino then going north on the Strip to just past Sahara. Some old casinos that are no longer there can be seen: Dunes,Desert Inn,El Rancho,Stardust,Silver City,Frontier,Silver Slipper,Marina,Hacienda,Paddlewheel,Sands,Vegas World,Westward Ho,Aladdin,Holiday Inn,Peppermill,Landmark and more.
Wow. The nostalgia. I miss when table games were the norm. The casino treated people like clients, not like faceless wallets. I miss the simplicity. I miss Lake Mead not dropping 100 feet in level. I miss when $100 bucks was not just a drop in the bucket.
Thanks for posting this, it brings back some great memories.
Wolfy :)
People who were born in the early 90s don't know what your talking about unfortunately.
You're wrong, buddy. Casinos never treated anyone like clients.
I miss the old Vegas 😢❤
I worked at the landmark from 1985 to 1986. Loved vegas then. I was so young
I was there when the Landmark was being built. My dad walked me through it and I remember stepping on a nail and seeing it come out the top of my shoe. Not sure why I felt like sharing that....
My first trip to Vegas was 1990 as a 12 yr old. It’s crazy how much it’s changed. I remember staying at the Circus Circus and eating dinner at the the Frontier and watching the thunderstorms from the entrance of the Frontier that were going off in the vast NW Desert whats now the Summerlin Durango area. Also lived in Vegas for a while about 20 yrs ago. Watching this makes it seem like such a long time ago lol. Almost unrecognizable now.
Same year for me, July 4th 1990. It was not even crowded.
Great Memories at the Sulinda Motel.. we always stayed there dad and grandpa didnt want to spend much on the fancy hotels so sulinda was always the place to sleep, as kids my brother and i always enjoyed the pool at sulinda. Good Vegas Memories i will cherish for life
Thanks for posting! What a great trip down The Strip! I
Stardust was my favorite, along with dunes, sands, and the landmark. they kinda screwed up vegas when they started imploding old vegas casinos and hotels, like stardust in 2006 and dunes, i think 1991? I know flamingo is still there.
+Zach Hadden
Yeah I agree.
I liked it better back then than I do now.
Hotel implosions in Vegas were very popular in the 90's, and btw the dunes was the very first hotel implosion to occur and it was in 1993
Zach Hadden I wish they had never demolished the Stardust, I wanted to experience it now that I'm 21 but sadly it's not there 😭
Flamingo Circus Circus and Tropicana are still there
Thank you for sharing. Great video!
1988 is the year I say old Las Vegas died, that's the Year Excaliber was being built.
wow... this is a treasure. Awesome job!
Two questions. What time did this happen? What is the name of the car you were driving in the video?
Does anyone remember the name of the little hole-in-the-wall bar at Sands/Strip that is located where the gift shops are at 20:00? This would be 1980 or so.
07:10 Oh, man. The Old Fashion Show Mall. Not the Modern "Spaceship" it is now
00:00 Landmark (demolished, now parking)
00:49 Convention Center
00:52 Las Vegas Hilton (now Westgate Las Vegas)
02:55 Foxy’s Firehouse (demolished)
04:48 Circus Circus
05:00 Slots-a-Fun
05:11 Westward Ho (demolished)
05:25 Stardust (demolished; Echelon/Resorts World site)
06:35 Silver Slipper (demolished, 1988)
06:43 Frontier (demolished)
08:05 empty lot (Treasure Island)
08:44 “new casino going up” (Mirage, 1989)
08:50 Caesar’s Palace
09:55 Dunes (demolished; Bellagio)
10:40 Jockey Club
10:52 empty lot (City Center, Monte Carlo)
11:44 Desert Rose Motel (demolished; NY NY)
11:50 Lone Palm Motel (demolished; NY NY)
12:20 empty lot (Excalibur)
12:45 empty lot (Luxor)
12:50 Hacienda (demolished; Mandalay Bay)
- car turns around
14:09 White Sands Motel
14:20 Tropicana
15:00 Marina (closed; building exists in the MGM Grand structure)
15:38 Motels: Full Moon, Monie Marie, Del Rey Motel, Gold Rush Inn, Jamaica Motel, Tahiti Motel (all demolished)
16:18 Aladdin (demolished; Planet Hollywood)
16:50 shopping center (Paris Las Vegas)
16:58 Bally's
17:28 Barbary Coast (The Cromwell)
17:39 Flamingo
18:02 Imperial Palace (The Linq)
18:09 Holiday Casino (Harrah's)
18:29 Nob Hill (Casino Royale)
18:32 Sands (demolished; The Venetian)
19:17 Tam O’Shanter, Imperial 400 Motel (demolished; Palazzo)
20:05 empty lot (Wynn)
20:20 Desert Inn (Wynn/Encore)
20:15 Monaco Inn (demolished for widening of Desert Inn Dr)
21:35 Silver City (Ross Dress for Less)
21:45 Morocco Motel (demolished)
21:54 La Concha Motel (demolished)
22:00 Riviera
22:29 Algiers (demolished; Fontainbleu site)
22:32 El Rancho (demolished; Fontainbleu site)
23:08 Sahara (SLS Las Vegas)
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23:59 Foxy’s Firehouse (demolished)
23:25 Holiday Motel
24:31 Rancho Anita Motel, Sulinda Motel (demolished, now Stratosphere parking)
Thanks for taking the time to post this!
***** i believe that's just a little bit later at 11:24. it's difficult to see in this light but you can barely make out the sign -- at this point in late 1988 it was either still Viscount Hotel, or had just been renamed Boardwalk (years before the coney island carnival stuff)
Hoyo Monterrey Thank you for doing that. That's cool!
+Hoyo Monterrey That is fantastic, thanks!
Well done
A lot of people here reminiscing about Vegas in the 80's. It's funny, because in the Clint Eastwood movie The Gauntlet, there is a scene where a cab driver goes on about how choked up Vegas traffic is now, and how good the old days were. And that was in 1977! Haha. So it's all relative, and you grow attached to what you grew up seeing.
Mr. Butterworth yes typical. I just wonder who’s gonna love growing up in the 2010s? Social media and all these chat smartphones and video chats
Theworld isimmense 2019 was my first year from a long time so really I “grew up” (even though I didn’t) with 2010s Vegas. Mirage is nice
What about now Covid19 in the Year 2020?
relative to, many people were smart back then too....much more were decent and honest!
It’s like that for every generation. Las Vegas now is a lot bigger and a lot more populated. It’s eventually becoming a major city up there with NY, Chicago. LA. Etc. Especially with all the major sports team arriving in Vegas.
I enjoyed vegas back then. They took care of the gambler and people still new your name and the comps were good. Vegas today is nothing but high priced food, high end retailers, and corporations pinching every fucking penny out of you they can. It's almost like the gambler doesn't even matter to these people anymore. It sucks.
I think you have it right. Seems like its impossible to win too (slots of course. I prefer poker tho)
I don't know about comp comparisons but Vegas looked like a dump back then except Ceasers and the Flamingo.
I've been going to Las Vegas since the 80's, sometimes several times a year. Vegas was better in every way then. It is the one thing I can absolutely count on, things have deteriorated every single trip. It's a god damn shame.
@@dannydaw59 lies
guess its better off going to some over city for a vaction.
priceless footage. Thanks for posting
I miss this Vegas...lasted from 1982 till 2005 and had to get out. It just wasn't the same anymore.
I'm just now moving there. In Summerlin. Should I be scared? lol
My Daughter lives in Las Vegas now and i'm up there at least 4 to 5 times a year, started coming to Vegas in the late 70's - early 80's this video is like a history lesson on how much has changed in the past 35 -40 years
I moved to Vegas in 2017. It's crazy how much the city has changed in just 3 and a half years!
Remember the CHECKMATES? They were amazing group. Two guys. Sweet Louie was a dear friend. I heard he died of a Heart attack on a cruise ship. Sad stuff. I was there with dad in 1962 first time at age 7. And then as Regional Mgr. Best Foods Corp., over 300 food products, Skippy, Mayo., Mazola, Knorr Swiss etc. and 12 salespeople 9 Western States. I got burned out from 1983-1994. Too much! Anyway, Retired now and Malibu, California and I have my memories. Father is buried at VETERANS CEMETERY, BOUILDER, NEVADA-KOREA WAR 1952. James Clarence Hall PVT. (if you ever visit anyone there)... He sure hated life. Drank daily for 40 years (died of alcoholism age 61-1991) since his dad died in Hull Bay, MA drowning. Dad was 13. His dad 43. it changes people. I pray your daughter is well and happy in Vegas. We have friends who retired to Northern Vegas golf resorts. They seem to love it. Just not the heat. Take care Clarence
Yeah those where the days. The meal prices on the marquees that was a bargain then even with inflation . The Casino Hotels made there money on gambling they didn't over price you on the food and rooms.
Like today
I get roundtrip flights and room for 150 to 200 total.
Vegas is still fun and cheap. Everything evolves. One badass thing about how it is today is how you can walk everywhere, go to pool parties and see titties everywhere. I'm sure it has always been fun in vegas, and now the raiders are there! Just like al Davis always wanted, ......I'm still hearing 6 n 8 called in the craps table and I'm drunk high fiving players around me. VEGAS 4 LIFE
I liked going to Vegas around this time. You never saw parents with their kids and people gambled. Now you have all these people who come for the shopping, dance clubs, expensive food and worst of all parents who vacation here and bring the kids. IMHO this place sucks right now. In want full pay blackjack and 2.99 steak and eggs. Not Gucci stores and $30 buffets.
+Steven Runyon somebody has to undercut the buffet people or it will go on forever
I couldn't agree with you more. Who wants to pay a $50 cover at some lame-ass club on the Strip, and then paying $10 for a beer and $20 for a cocktail? Thanks, but no thanks.
Then stay on freemont
Exactly. You can still get cheap food and cheap rooms in downtown Vegas.
*****
Freemont street is a very dangerous place to stay
I would not recommend it
there are hooligans roaming all around the area
if one of them mugs or assaults you the police
won't arrest them
no one will do anything
the police just don't care about anyone in the area
there's a motel 6 on Topicana a few blocks east of the strip
So much of the Strip I had forgotten. The Silver Slipper? How could I have forgotten it? We walked the strip from one end to the other two or three times a year, like so many others, and I completely forgot about some of these places. For those who are still pining for the Dunes...We stayed there about 2 months before they demolished it. It was time for it to go. It's hard to remember so much dead space between casinos on the south end. Thanks so much for posting this. It really takes me back.
Fascinating video, thank for shooting, editing and uploading to TH-cam!!
that would have been a monday. I was working at McCarran, 4pm to midnight fueling airplanes while I was a college student at UNLV. Best job I ever had, I worked monday thru thursday and had 3 day weekends. I had a blast and would often be able to pick up on women while I was working. I think I was at $14 - $15 an hour, I was the only student who owned a townhouse and didnt have to live on campus. I also remember riding my CBR1000 Hurricane up and down the strip, I was living the dream. I could write a book about my life while in college, the stories and experiences I had would make a great movie.
Axl Bender I'll take the hardback for $19.99
Axl Bender is the clown sign CircusCircus today ?
Axl Bender are you still living in Las Vegas?
The Sahara had steak&lobster for $7.77.
I was in high school at this time .... remember on the weekends the strip was PACKED cuz every body cruised up and down playing their sound systems as loud as you could and rolling your windows down and talking to ppl in the cars next you at lights 😂😂
las vegas is part monopoly game board, part etch-a-sketch.
right?
I love that! It's a perfect description!
Anyone remember the .99 midnight steak dinner at Binions downtown? good food had to wait in line to be seated, around 1982-83 ! the good ole' days
I do indeed. Won a better who bet $10,000 on the Field by throwing a 9. He picked up his money and left. This would only occur at Binions and in the old days.
Steak and eggs for $1.99 at the Barbary Coast @ 3:00a.m., you betcha!
I love the 1980’s! ❤️
I remember that. I mover there in 77 I worked at the PaddleWheel as a cocktail server back then...the paddle wheel was one of the first casinos in the clip.. nothing looks even remotly close the that now
Dear Sir. whoever you are. Thank you for sharing this precious video. I always tell people that I wish I had my digital camera and could walk the Strip from end to end in 1955 to record for history what Las Vegas was like in its classic day. When I first visited Vegas in 1967 we only stayed one night at the Imperial 400 Motel. I have been trying to find exactly where on the Strip that was. It clearly shows in your video and now I see that it has been engulfed by the Venetian and Sands Convention Center since the next intersection was "Sands Ave." And all the other places. I recall the Hacienda being the last isolated casino on the Strip before heading back to California. I never ventured off the strip so I missed seeing the Landmark. Note free parking, service stations right on Las Vegas Blvd, several empty lots, La Concha motel (now at the Neon Museum), the Marina, and the Dunes (no Bellagio). I will save this video to refer to when seeking out the placement of the other buildings. Glad you had the forethought to record an important era of Las Vegas. The Strip now is a gaudy cesspool. No character. Expensive food (Bachanal Buffet $60), $25 parking fee, resort fees, $200 show tickets, people dressed like they just finished gardening or forgot to put clothes on over their underwear, and eye hurting LED displays that make you think that you are in hell. Too bad.
Did anyone else see the gas prices at 73 cents per gallon!! Wow, wonderful video!
My first trip to Vegas was in 1990 when I was 21. You could get a one-pound prime rib dinner for $1.99 (usd) and all the free booze you could handle...as long as you tipped the waitress. If you ventured off the strip food was even cheaper, better and more friendly! I played $5/hand BJ in 1991 and got a free room comp after less than one hour. I do miss those days.
73 cents a gallon?
thats arco shit gas
73¢ in 1988 = $1.58 in 2019
@@1MNUTZ how is it any shittier than the shit Shell pumped out ?
At 8:22 you can see the cranes in the background that are building the mirage, which opened a year after this video
Wow! I remember going when I was a kid. Night and day difference. It's just way too over the top now.
This is my favorite vid of Vegas. Remember all the nothingness betwn the Dunes and the Hacienda and all the incredible growth afterwards
The Riviera looked completely different back then.
Hermin Pete sucks.. loved that place
It looked... a bit ugly
All the bronze booties
23:02 Wet 'n Wild! so many fun times there.
Wet N Wild is still open , they just moved it off Strip.
Was great there on the hot days (as always lol.. ) wasnt it?
@@kschreihart not the same man. Take it from any LAs Vegas native.
Wow. That's awesome.
Kurt Schreihart ... it’s wet n wild in name only! Not the same rides or anything
Las Vegas looks much less dense in this video. Earliest I was there was in 1990 and is now a faded memory, I just remember seeing a brand new at the time Nissan 300ZX at the strip thinking it was futuristic. I was 14 at the time. All the prices for breakfast are affordable in this video compared to todays hyperinflation in 2024.
Thanks for the memories!!! I'm still hoping 🙏 that the theme Hotels make a return
Vegas in the 80’s was the best. It was before the large gaming corporations took over and decided to make profit centers out of every aspect of the operation. Deals abounded for the tourist and local alike. Cheap rooms, great food for less, free live music lounge acts, and drinks were free for the asking. Not anymore. Thanks for the memories!
Very cool!
@4:21 gas was only .73 cents a gallon!
This was the time mike tyson owned vegas
Circus Circus lives on, You will be driving the Strip in 2040 and say , Circus Circus!
Wow, the Monaco tower at the RIV was being built. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Vegas Envy I miss the Riv... deeply
Thanks for sharing. Great, happy memories. Those were the days.
Peppermill is still there.
Is the Peppermill Casino still there? Thar was a fun place in the eighties.
Where?
I go to Vegas all the time from 2004 - now I love it and have the best time every time I go. BUUUUT I would love to have been there back in the days! 50s 60s 70s... Seems much more laid back, chill, no attitude etc... No pretentious assholes. and A LOT cheaper!! But still Love me some Vega$!!
Thank you for putting this up. I've been going to vegas every year since 2007. I always wanted to know what old vegas looked like
Rest in Peace "Wet N' Wild" 23:00. What an amazing time capsule of Vegas in the '80s. Thank you dave!
Hell yeah - RIP respects to the old school WN'W ☠⚱⚰✝
Wow the gift shop on Sahara hasn't change and they were more motels than casinos on the strip back then, interesting
besides enjoying what the old vegas strip was like, I got a real kick looking at the 80's cars! That Town Car tho!
I'm watching a bunch of videos like this of cities in the 80s... 90s... our country used to seem to raw and rugged. It's hard to explain. It's like technology/internet was invented, and boom, we lost that independent American spirit! Certainly young people these days.
Now that had tech and internet then you little shitheaf
1988 was one of my first trips to Vegas,, I think I just saw myself heading in for nite !! 🤠
I broke in dealin bj ay Silver City. Great people and free popcorn . I miss yall God bless that are no longer her.
Steak smoke casino interior.... Best cheap steaks...$4.99. Remember it well.
I played penny slots in there
Yes, I am originaly from Detroit, moved to Las Vegas in 1984.
Been here since 77 and couldn't remember what was there back then. Your video is fantastic. I just never realized just how barren it was from Caesars to the Hacienda!! Yhe only people that could possibly say that the strip looked like crap are the spoiled ass kids born with everything. Not realizing they are the basis for the casinos we have now..they should appreciate and respect our history a little more. But on a good note, thank you so much for this. Almost got a tear when I saw Wet n Wild!
Marina hotel became eventually in MGM Grand
and the old MGM Grand became as Bally's...
and Dunes turned into the Bellagio as Hacienda turned into Mandalay Bay...
Dude, THANK YOU. me and my wife started dating in 1987 and our place was definitely Las Vegas. We always stayed at the Tropicana in the garden rooms and played at the Hilton, Riviera, and the Golden Nugget. We are beside ourselves with excitement about your videos. We cannot thank you enough for the look back at how Vegas used to be. thanks again.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and lived there from 1977 to 1990. It's glory days are over. 😢
remember when New Years eve wasn't that crazy as it is now?
robert aguirre ur like fucking 50 or 40
JMMT7022801 ur like 40 boi
DANK MEMES ur like a young idiot! I would put $100k at 2-1 or better Robert Aguirre is 50+. The only reason I don't say a million is I don't got that! BTW this is one of those situations where you take your medicine (weak) and walk away, where cussing me out or trying to cut me down just makes you look worse. But if it makes you feel better, go head- i'll never read it.
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Wow. It's like taking a trip back in time. The Strip sure has changed in 30 years. Great archive. Thanks for posting.
“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots.
In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday.
Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some 25 year old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number.
After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from... Junk Bonds”.
Vegas was wonderful in the 80's. I remember when the Bananno family sent me to Vegas back in 1984 to take care of some business. I liked it so much here that decided to stay.
Sounds like fun
Thank you for taking the time to film. Brings back a ton of memories!!!
I was born in 1996, and to see what this place looked liked in the decade I wish I was alive in, is pretty dang cool!
+25:01 Carl's Jr . still running in 2018
David Castaneda ikr That place has been there since the 70s probably has some history to it
Solid drop in
Oh I love this! I was dancing at the Tropicana in Les Folies Bergere when you were filming. I so miss the good old days! And the Aladdin! Miss Miss! Thank you for sharing
Fun fact: They used part of the old Marina hotel for the construction of the new MGM Grand.
JMMT7022801 That's right ! Visited the old Marina in 1990 ( temporarily branded that year as MGM Marina) with half the casino emptied out , downsizing before the big construction site started for 2-3 years , Marina was so small in comparison the New MGM but on that prime south strip corner real estate!!
On the bright side, they didn’t destroy that building. They reinvented it
My family’s been here since the 50s and my mom and dad spent their first honeymoon night in the marina 😂😂 ( in 1967) she said they had “ pools” in the rooms .... I’m guessing they were just jacuzzi tubs 😂😂
La Dawn yeah. The Riviera had those "pools"
73 cent a gallon for gas!!
For reals gas doesnt even cost around that anymore
that was the first year I went to vegas...been going every year for 25 yrs now and much prefer it then....cheap rooms and food...just got back from ceasars...new buffet 49.99...miss the imperial palace (now the QUAD) buffet in 88 for 2.99....the strip now is a conviluted mess.....love this clip and of course the new hotel going up was the Mirage, which changed everything
My first trip to LV was back in 2015 and this blows my mind how much open space there is. I'd love to go back in time and take all of this in. Amazing.
Vegas started to change for the Worse in 2010.
Had he filmed 1 more minute, we would have seen PAWN STARS
Nice job capturing all this. It's really not that long ago, but most of the Strip is so desolate! I especially enjoy seeing the future site of Bellagio which, at the time, contained the Oasis and Dunes. Just amazing how it's all changed.
My first home, Jan 86, was behind the MGM (now Bally's), in the parking lot, in my Mercury Monarch (paid for by winnings from the 85 American Open Chess trny in LA) As I figured how best to avoid a fricking J.O.B., found a room key, back when they still existed) and How To Wield its Powers! I moved from my car, to the palm trees surrounding the MGM pool area. Flash the room key, some cutie wearing all white, pool attendant attire, would grabs two pristine white towels and the boy would take a chaise lounger to wherever I said to drop it. Believe it or not, even the very hot poolside cocktail waitress would bring my Long Island Ice Tea 🍵 and one every 30 minutes until I fell off my lounger, then one every...okay tomorrow.
They must've just used a code for general comped drink. Obviously, not verifying whether or not I was a guest or not. Special.
You see (wait for it) my auntie Betty heard me speak on splittin' ta Vegas and walked up to me, opening her wallet, emptying the $26 (A 20, a 5 and a 1dollar bill) stuck out her hand to transfer the funds and she said these words, "DON'T COME BACK FOR AT LEAST SIX (6) MONTHS!" I shit you NOT! Turns out, I didn't return to LA for 3 1/2 years. Including the 8 months in Jersey 11/87-7/88. Oh, went back one time to go to court for a gun charge in the OC that had been continued for over a year, which got continued for a couple more months... When that time came about, I was a broke dick living in The Naked City, Festive, my kinda peeps. Skipped court and...hmm memory...it was Jan 5, 1995, living in a sober apts in .. Sacraeffingmento when I was forced to feed fists to an overaggressive bus driver and landed in jail, the cam saw him swing first, so
five (5) days later, charges dropped lmao in the interest of justice... Oh yeah, the gun charge in Socal picked me up from 450 miles away to take me in front of a judge for a ten yo warrant on a DUI and the gun charge, separate incident. Finally ended up with 11 days time served. But 60 days for flaking on ten yo DUI.
But I digresss
Great video. Just look at all the parking spaces back then. All gone now. And all the small businesses all swallowed up by corporations. Tropicana casino still looks the same. I remember going to the Desert Inn with my ex to see Buddy Hacket. We sat about in the middle of the audience and Hackett picks out my ex from the stage and tells her she's one of the most beautiful women he's ever seen, then some other banter. I, unfortunatley, had had a few drinks by that time and really had to pee. I knew I couldn't leave though because she would have been up on the stage by the time I got back! It was the worst I've ever had to pee.
Here's another story. There was a bar right by the Sands where the rat pack would meet after
their show. A waitress from there told me Dean Martin would notoriously throw his hat on a tall shelf and make her retrieve it. Boys will be boys.
I had my 1st date with my wife now at the Stardust. Best day of my life. In the 70's, I met Mr. Robert Stella who ran the Stardust. He was definitly called MR. Stella!
Great video thanks. I was in Jubilee 83-86 so this brought back lots of happy memories. Thanks for sharing this video!
i remember when we used to go to the horseshoe to get the 1.99 steak dinner!
I remember driving to Las Vegas from California the first time by myself in 1990. No hotel reservation and just got the hint of where to live by looking at the ad on the billboard in California desert. I end up checking in Aladdin hotel for $25 per night in the motel style room in the back. Lunch buffet was around $5 at the time. Steak and lobster in Stardust was 7.99. At that time I did not adventure with the local casino away from the strip. Those prices could be even more amazing.
So many ppl commenting on .73 gas .... but not about how leaded gas doesn’t even exist anymore 😂😂😂 I used to cruise the strip on Friday and Saturday nights ( along with every other high schooler and collage kid ) and that gas for my Karmann Ghia was sooo cheap ! We made getting down the strip impossible for tourists there were soooo many of us .... eventually they outlawed cruising and anyone under 18 after 10 pm on the strip 😂
I was there New Years 87-88. Stayed at Ballys and went to the Jubilee Show, Red Foxx was right in front of us in line to get into the show. I still have the Jubilee program. My favorite place was the Riviera, way in the back near the show entrance was a bar that the Crazy Girls performers would gather between shows. I would be the only guy with 20 or so show girls.
They really should have stopped tinkering with the strip long ago when their was still class and nostalgia left... the strip is now almost unrecognizable
Very cool to see. This is around the first time I went to Vegas..Doesn't even look like the same place nowadays and not for the better
When he says "New Casino going up" at 8:42, that new casino is...The Mirage.
Yep
Which is now being torn down in the summer of 2024 😢
@@yenlard6683 yep. It seems nothing is safe in Vegas. Quite sad.
It's amazing how much has changed since the first time that even I went. Barbary Coast is now Drai's. Aladdin is now Planet Hollywood, the Sahara is shutdown, and new additions like the Wynn and Encore are there. Change can be sad and Las Vegas is constantly changing. It used to feel safer too. Now it does not.
Love this video. Feb of 2020 here as I just watched it. I'm so old I remember the low prices. In fact I was watching a rerun of the old Vegas TV show just a couple of days ago. One of the casinos had listed on one of the marquees Chicken Dinner 99¢ and Steak Dinner $1.99! It may have been at the Desert Inn where Dan Tana worked out of. Good memories with this video. Bravo!
I lived there from 92 to 95. Left and went back in Feb 2020. Wow! What a change in 25 years. I loved living there but was so young. When we went back I said "This aint my cup of tea anymore"
You had a lot of foresight to make this video back then. You must have known things would change a lot over the next decades.
Dude, you should upgrade to an HD camera.
It was made in 1988
It's called a joke.
+sprdvx Did not know sorry
sprdvx you should up date to a funny joke
I'm the Betamax of humor and proud of it :P
I watched a couple of demolitions back even before this video.....implosions! Really cool to see!
Yo, it’s absolutely crazy to think about that today’s homeless we’re just kids when this was filmed
25:00 that Carl's Jr. is still there.
I remember back in the day, 1990 ish, when Excalibur and Tropicana were the biggest hotels and were THE hotels to stay at. I also remember seeing the Luxor pyramid being built. Interesting fact, originally each room was suppose to have balconies and the pyramid was suppose to be white, but because of the intense heat they opted to enclosed the pyramid and cover it in black glass panes, which obviously looked better.
What a trip down memory lane!
I moved here in 91 and the place was still mostly the same, the boom started in 93 or so and all those places came down one by one, to be replaced by enormous, expensive, ugly places with no character.
Yeah last thing on the west side was Hacienda, I missed out by not seeing Lance Burton there for $19.95 in 93 or 94.
I lived there from aug 89 to aug 92 . great times ..
Remember the shark club nightclub .. My dad installed their sound system the newer one not the shitty one it started with (^_^)v
i was living there when you filmed this... thanks for the memories
My first visit to Vegas was as a kid in the summer of '88...boy has it changed.
+timtwoface it's so differentthere must have been three blocks from the Frontier to Caesar's palaceand cheap motels on the south endthere's no such thing today
those were big blocks too to walk cause I remember when me and my cousins walked from casino to casino back in 1991
I love Vegas now, been going every year since 2007. But Vegas looks like it was much more fun back then.
I lived there in 1988 and I live here now in 2016 looks like a totally different city nothing is the same except for Circus Circus. And the strip was a lot shorter back then.
Same here - moved here in '88 when I was 8 yrs old.. Lived in Tera Hill Apts next to the Apple Concorde apartments - remember either of those? A couple of blocks across from the mall on Maryland Pkwy?
And, yeah Circus Circus is the only place around from back then except for a couple of spot spots downtown. Oddly enough, Circus Circus was the very first place we landed upon moving here from Denver in '88. That was the place where we checked into while getting our apt ready for us to move into coincidentally and is the only place around from that Era. Weird. But cool too, I guess.
There was so much open space on the strip back then. The city is always changing and reinventing itself.
Ellis James Yeah, you didn't have the corporate fucks renting out every peice of pavement to a Starbucks or some chain restaurant like you have now. It was nice back then. You could walk around with out getting bumped into and somone wasn't running into you because they had their damn cell phone glued to their eyes. Change is inevitable but Vegas was much better back than for the customer before the corporations started buying up the strip properties. The comps, rooms and customer service were great before Wynne created the first mega resort. OK I'm done no more ranting.
Yeah it wasn’t as developed as it is now. Las Vegas is starting to make a name for itself and is beginning to be recognized just like other cities like NY, Chicago, LA, San Francisco etc.
I remember these days course I was on 7 but my parents took us and we’d hit circus circus ect. We also went to all the cheap buffets (all that gourmet food for cheap haha) and cracked up over the 35 cents Ham and eggs signs we’d see lol. It was a running joke for years with me and my mom. Then as the 90s hit more kid friendly places started popping up off the strip. I remember walking thru the construction tunnels while treasure island was being built . Now the places is barely recognizable & heavy corporate presence ugh. Just not the same now. Circus looks hella dates for decades now and it seems like every artist that had a hit song in the last 10 years gets a residency 🙄 before it was the legends and of course segfreod and Roy . Now it’s just cvs,Walgreens and Ross every few miles and expensive reheated food at the buffets .
Wow! What a blast from memory lane. Living in Vegas for the last two years I rode right along side you in this video remembering the places I used to frequent MANY years ago and knowing what has risen in their place. (And also sadly remembering what used to be in the vacant or now half finished buildings.) Thank you for this trip!
14:20 Tropicana is being demolished in 2024
I was there in 1988, I particularly remember the Hacienda with its Mexican theme. My first visit was way back in 1968 when I was a kid.