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Return of the Wildest. Louis Prima & Keely Smith at the Desert Inn, 1961. They announced their divorce at the end of this residency. Slide scan from @thomashawk
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Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1967. Diamond Jim's Nevada Club on today's Golden Nugget block. Photo by John Bulmer.
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Fremont St & Casino Center, 1967. Photo by John Bulmer.
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Las Vegas Strip, 1976. Sign pollution, or not enough signs?
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State line (Primm), 1996. Terrible's will take over Primm hotel-casinos and keep Primm Valley Resort open. Photo by Andrew B. White.
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thenevadaindependent.com/art…

Terrible's reaches agreement with Primm family to keep businesses, community open - The Nevada...

"Shared goals" to preserve the area's legacy while growing prompt the family to partner with the location's previous operator to avoid a July 4 shutdown.

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Las Vegas Hilton, 1994 – before and after the 362 foot sign was wrecked by a storm.
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Fremont St, June 1936. We're facing west next to the Golden Nugget block.
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Fremont St, June 1936. Facing east, same location as the previous photo. Both pictures by Oakes Vegas Studio
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Charo and Xavier Cugat poolside at the Flamingo, June 3, 1966. (Las Vegas News Bureau)
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Charo & Cugat rocking the Ed Sullivan Show
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Charo & Cugat were wed at Ceasars that year (I know how this looks, but Nevada was virtually lawless). They played Caesars on New Year's Eve. Steak, Champagne, Charo, and The Checkmates LTD for $20, probably the biggest ticket price anywhere in town up to that point.
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4 Queens opened 60 years ago, June 2, 1966. Photo by Hank DeLespinasse @las_when
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Opening night, photo by Las Vegas News Bureau. Timeline: vlv.works/4Queens
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Marilyn Monroe at the Sands, June 7, 1961. Sinatra on stage. Photo by Pierluigi Praturlon.
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Marilyn (Norma Jean Doughtery) turned 20 years old while living in Las Vegas, just long enough for a divorce. She lived with a family friend at 604 S. 3rd St., one of the railroad cottages.
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The blonde on the right was still unknown in 1947, back in Las Vegas with other 20th Century-Fox hopefuls, working in a fashion show at the Flamingo. Photo by local man Larry Ullom.
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Construction of the Bellagio, May 30, 1996. Photo by Greg Cava. PH-00399. UNLV Special Collections & Archives.
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May 1966. Dunes, and construction of Caesars Palace.
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